Star Trek and Steno
Includes a Live Web Event on 05/28/2025 at 8:00 PM (EDT)
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Live webinar on May 28, 2025, at 8:00 pm Eastern.
Do you boldly navigate your career? Are you curious how CART and Closed Captioners navigate realtime outputs, including troubleshooting and multiple concurrent output feeds to different programs? Are you familiar and comfortable utilizing all the goodies your CAT Software has to support beautiful realtime, such as phonetic tables, macros, one-word delay settings, stitching commands, mistran suggestion settings, and more? Are you utilizing non-CAT tools such as scheduling portals, verified open-source materials, secured cloud storage, and social media to support your brand?
Join Thomas Herman, CART Captioner and Star Trek fan, as he uses a dual timeline of the pop culture phenomenon Star Trek (STEM professionals often cite Star Trek, including NASA!) and stenographic captioners' impact on technology through the years. It is time to remind stenographers of the where we’ve been and where we’re going; the technology we’ve used and outlived and the ethical concerns of current technology.
Why use Star Trek to frame a CART career and all the realtime tricks that will be shared with attendees, you may ask. Whether you’re a fan (Trekker) or not, whether you’re interested in CART or not, Star Trek framed a future where varied people from all walks of life worked together for the common good. Despite fantastic technology, they always showed a human at the helm, including Court Reporters at proceedings.
This webinar will be recorded for those unable to attend live. Total CEU 0.1.
Thomas Herman
Thomas Herman is a stenographic CART Captioner and owner/operator of Caption Nerds, LLC, with a specialty in near-instant real-time translation for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (HOH) community, as well as others who need or enjoy captions.
A graduate from the American Captioning Institute, Thomas has been providing CART captions since 2016. He is a member of the National Court Reporters Association (NCRA) and has written for NCRA’s magazine, the Journal of Court Reporting (JCR). In March 2024, Thomas was featured in a JCR article written by Florida court reporter, Chris DeGrazio. He is also a published author of some obscure fiction.
He often contributes to social media initiatives to raise awareness of the industry as a whole, but more specifically highlights quality captions for the Deaf and HOH community, DEI, and LGBTQIA+ representation.
Thomas has written and consulted for InnoCaption and various American Sign Language (ASL) firms he’s worked with, assisting them in growing their CART clientele. He volunteers for stenographer associations as his bandwidth permits and is currently volunteering on the NCRA’s Marketing and Membership Outreach Committee.
Contact:
- @captionnerdsllc (Instagram) * thomas@captionnerds.com
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