I have watched many hearings...WHAT the hell is that guy breathing into a CUP

[angstlessk]

about? The guy in the front of the room with that black rubber looking thing he keeps putting up to his mouth? I am sure not every person who does that job...what ever it is...has asthma?

[Norquist Nemesis]

1. They can speak into a tape machine or with someone else

through those things without being heard elsewhere in the chamber.

[Richardo]

3. He's a transcriber - much like a court reporter

[Norquist Nemesis]

9. Exactly

:)

[angstlessk]

5. Who are 'they'..the people at the hearing? they guy with the cup?

is he talking to others at the hearings? I don't get it? That is the latest technology?

[YDogg]

2. stenographer?

i can't make him out. i'm watching online on a tiny screen.

[demnan]

4. Transcription is often done by voice

in courts and elsewhere.

[SharonRB]

6. I used to do typing for court reporters

Some of them dictate into a computer rather than using the machine you type on. They use that black rubber thing to dictate into.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

7. That would be a stenographer.

Usually you see them as typing on little machines. Some rather odd stenographers repeat everything they hear into a cone, and then type it out later. I didn't think there were any of that sort left. It seems completely obsolete thanks to, oh I don't know, video cameras.

[MistressOverdone]

8. Very old fashioned method of

court stenography. I'm amazed they still use it. Somebody actually has to listen to the tape and transcribe it.