WE NEED NEW LEADERSHIP. FULL STOP.
If the NCRA Board spent as much time focusing on stenographic reporters – like the bylaws demand – and less time scheming how to bring voice writers and videographers into the association, we would be light-years ahead of …
NCRA’S MISSION STATEMENT! RIGHT UNDER OUR VERY NOSES!
“Mission statement: The National Court Reporters Association promotes excellence among those who capture and convert the spoken word to text and is committed to supporting every member in achieving the highest level of professional expertise.” Do you know …
HERE WE GO – AGAIN!!!
VOTE NO! NO! TO BYLAWS AMENDMENTS MAKING VIDEOGRAPHERS FULL-FLEDGED VOTING MEMBERS. NO! TO ADDING VOICEWRITERS INTO OUR FOLD. NO! TO MAKING THEM FULL-FLEDGED VOTING MEMBERS. After almost innumerable negative votes on these two issues, the Board of Directors …
2022: $304,500* Salary for the Executive Director of NCRA?
We don’t know if that figure includes “fringe benefits.” What are those fringe benefits? Is there a million-dollar golden parachute if the Board of Directors doesn’t rehire him? Surely, the BOD hasn’t gotten us in that predicament. Or …
ACCORDING TO SOME, A STENO REPORTER IS JUST ANOTHER “CAPTURER.”
A 1-800 is sending THIS NOTE out to every single one of their “clients”: “Capture technology continues to advance and [we] will always provide the service best suited to your requirements. We encourage you to update language on …
THERE IS AN AIRPLANE PILOT SHORTAGE AND A SHORTAGE OF NURSES.
How is the world dealing with these shortages? Not by getting rid of copilots and replacing them with artificial intelligence (scary thought, eh?), or by using robots to inject people with antibiotics. The shortages of nurses and pilots …
EXPLAINER: HOW THINGS WORK WITH THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
The executive director has the ear of every single board member. BUT he only needs to convince six of the 11 board members of the direction that he believes NCRA should go. AND membership cannot know if there …
And Another Conversation on Social Media About Voice Writers
Original poster: “I have seen some posts of voice writers using … or other ASR to create their transcripts from room audio instead of through Dragon using their voice notes. Apparently Dragon isn’t working well for them. …” …
Question Under Discussion by Voice Writers: “If Dragon doesn’t translate something correct, how are you doing your read back when asked?”
Poster No. 1: I listen to my notes, fix it on my screen, and then read back from that. Poster No. 2: If that happens, I would ask for a 5 minute break so I can listen to …
YOUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS ARE BIG, FAT LIARS!
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 …