At about 10:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time yesterday, June 23rd, your Board of Directors – that has assured the entire membership that they are NEUTRAL regarding allowing voice writers to become members of NCRA, the association dedicated solely to stenographers by its constitution – announced that they hired a voice writer to educate steno reporters about how voice writing works.
The title of the free, live webinar is: UNITED BY SKILL: Voice and Machine Stenography Together
And members can earn .1 CEUs without a fee if they watch. (When has THAT ever happened before?) Nonmember voice writers will have to pay $35.
The marketing says to “Get the facts at our upcoming webinar: United by Skill: Voice and Machine Stenography Together.”
When we here at WUNCRA are asked what skill correlates to being a stenographer, all of us compare it to playing chords on a piano.
So, in terms of skill, every single stenographic reporter is a damn good pianist. Some are even concert pianists. And the best among us are so good that if we were really pianists, we could fill up a stadium like Lady Gaga, Billy Joel or Elton John.
So … what correlates to voice writing as a “skill”? Karaoke.
“Voice Stenography”? We don’t think so.
FPLT
WAKE UP, NCRA!
FRANK N. SENSE