CaseViewNet

A colleague and I will be providing realtime to three attorneys for a two-week jury trial.  I ordered and received CaseViewNet for this specific purpose as I thought the automatic refresh would be a terrific tool for us.

Our goal was to have one reporter scope and listen to the AudioSync on the laptop receiving the realtime feed while the other reporter wrote on the Mira A3.  We had a trial run in the courtroom yesterday only to discover that, first, the router may be defective and, second, that apparently we are unable to listen to the AudioSync while also inputting the realtime.

We have the wireless kit installed on the Mira A3, just for additional information, as well as the latest version of CATalyst Version 9.

Does anybody know of a way this can be done once we receive a new router from Stenograph and hope that this one works, as the trial begins Monday?

Lori Hauge

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Cindi Hartman
Training Program Manager
STENOGRAPH, LLC

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Lori Hauge:

We had a trial run in the courtroom yesterday only to discover that, first, the router may be defective and, second, that apparently we are unable to listen to the AudioSync while also inputting the realtime.

Sorry to hear about a bad router.  I'm sure that will get sorted out soon.

Testing my interpretation of what you wrote:  You want to have a scopist editing on the same computer you're using for realtime, and you want the scopist to be able to use AudioSync to spot-check audio while editing.  In other words, you would want the comptuer audio system to be doing two things simultaneously:  (1) recording audio in realtime and (2) playing back audio at other time points in the same transcript.

The scoping is doable, but the audio spot-checking just can't be done with an off-the-shelf computer.  There are ways to make it happen with an elaborate and expensive custom workstation specifically designed for such application, but that's in the realm of extremely expensive and esoteric audio recording/editing workstations.

Now, if you're simply wanting the scopist to be able to listen to the audio in real time as it is being recorded, that's a function of the computer's sound "card."  Some allow that and some don't.  You would have to poke around in the sound settings of the computer, looking for options named something like "pass through" or "direct monitoring." Sometimes sound cards capable of this are described as "full duplex" rather than "half duplex."

Another option for scoping and allowing the scopist access to audio spot-checking is to use CATalyt's work units with the scopist on a second computer.  The second computer can be located anywhere so long as both computers can access a common network folder. That can mean computers next to one another with a network crossover cable, somewhere in the building on a common network, or anywhere on the Internet so long as both computers have reliable high-speed Internet connections.  In this scenario, the scopist's work does not affect your realtime output.

Or I may have missed your point entirely!  Don't hesitate to clarify my muddle.

Hi, Cindi!  Thought you were away.  Good to see you!

Lori, I use the Mira to supply realtime to my computer. You can listen to the audiosync and edit--on the court reporter's computer--while realtime is proceeding. Just to be sure there is not a misunderstanding, CaseviewNet receives realtime and corrections made on the court reporter's computer, but CaseviewNet does not receive audio.

Unfortunately I do not have the right computer with me today (it's at home with my OneNote software on it), but there is a website you can go to/your scopist can go to and log into your computer from a remote place.

There is a monthly subscription fee, albeit small, and it is possible to listen to the audio while the same thing is taking place.

You will have to do a split screen on your CaseCat so it doesn't interfere with your realtime feed, but if you do the split screen, the scopist at another location can access your computer as her/his own and edit the transcript in the edit portion of the split screen and can also listen to the audio at the same time.

Again, as soon as I find out the website/get home tonight, I will let you know what it is.  It does take some testing, however, to get it working perfect (as far as selecting the correct options so the audio does not play back on the host computer in the middle of the courtroom).

Okay.  Wow.  I'm sorry I forgot the name.

I'm 99% sure it is:

www.gotomypc.com

There is a free one @ www.crossloop.com, however, audio cannot be listened through at the same time on CrossLoop like it can on Go To My PC.

The one thing about using these softwares/sites, and what's important to remember, is that two people have control over one single computer.  Set boundaries.  Have the person scoping know that if you move the mouse, they need to step away.  Whoever is inputting/in the courtroom has to have the upper control.

Cindi, Richard, Jerry, and Sarah:

First, please accept my apology for not responding sooner.  I was never notified that responses to my post had been posted.

Thank you all so very much for all of the information you shared with me.  I truly appreciate it.

I was notified yesterday that the two-week trial has settled, so now we won't be providing this service.  However, the attorney who contacted us about providing this service wants me to demonstrate it to him, as well as our local bar association and perhaps other bar associations in the state.  (Guess I'll have to see how brave I am. )  Anyway, I'm going to work with the setup a little bit more before demonstrating it at the law firm and then we'll make some decisions after that.  I want to be positive it's going to work the way we had wanted it to work.

Thanks again for all of your help.

Lori Hauge

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