Advanced Realtime Techniques: Strategies for Captioning and Beyond

With an 18-year career in court reporting and captioning, Lindsay Stoker is renowned for her expertise and commitment to excellence. As a sought-after speaker and “realtime heavyweight,” she has provided live captioning for leading tech giants (Meta, X, Google, Sony, Microsoft, GitHub), major investment firms, gaming conferences, and government proceedings.

Lindsay also covers complex litigation with remarkable speed and accuracy, spanning maritime, environmental, pharmaceuticals, toxic tort, intellectual property, antitrust, securities, class actions, defamation matters, and even the Oscars.  

Her leadership roles include serving on the NCRA CRC Committee — eventually chairing it — and contributing to the NCRA STRONG and Skills Test Committees. This involvement demonstrates her technical mastery and passion for professional excellence.

Kelly Keyes-Linkowski has worked as a captioner since 2003, working from the comforts of home and around the world, providing verbatim transcription and instant speech-to-text accessibility using the power of stenography.

Keyes-Linkowski is president of Caption First Incorporated, committed to providing equal access for everyone, bridging the communication barriers that exist for people who are deaf, hard of hearing, neurodiverse, or whose native language is not English.