Computer-aided realtime translation technology - CART

Computer-aided realtime translation technology - CART - captioning lectures and live television programs

Realtime reporting is most commonly used in education and in captioning live television programs. Those persons who perform the captioning listen to the words spoken and simultaneously stenotypes those words on a shorthand machine which sends the electronic data to a computer. The computer instantly translates the stenotyped shorthand into English text and sends that text to the TV or the computer.

CART reporters are trained to facilitate communication directly between consumers who are hearing impaired and who are fluent in English but who cannot use sign language or oral interpreters. In its broadest sense, CART reporting is one type of interpreting.