Job Description:

• 1) Operates computerized stenographic captioning equipment to provide captions of live television broadcast for hearing-impaired viewers: Discusses program or news story content with broadcast's PRODUCER to learn new words and terms which are not included in computer's stenographic glossary.

• 2) Devises stenographic equivalents of new words or terms and adds them to stenographic glossary.

• 3) Reviews glossary items before broadcast for words and terms that are likely to be used on-air.

• 4) Listens to live program dialogue and types stenographic equivalents for words and phrases to provide on-screen captions.

• 5) May type captions for movie or taped television program.