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One of our local folk asked about CAT software; his query follows:
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Does anyone out there know of software that does Computer Assisted 
Transcription (CAT) for the Macintosh?  This is the process whereby 
stenotyped transcripts generated by court reporters are translated into 
English text documents which then represent the official record of a 
trial or other legal proceeding.  

There are several competing systems to do this that run on IBM/clone 
platforms. Two that immediately come to mind are called StenoCAT and 
ProCAT.  These systems include something like a RAM card that the stenotype
machine and captmachine-readable form.  This card is removed and inserted into a 'reader 
box' attached to the computer and the CAT software translates the 
keystrokes into text readable by ordinary people (if attorneys can be 
termed 'ordinary people').  The vendors claim as high as 90% accuracy in 
the automatic translation process.  The computer operator, or 'scopist', 
then completes the translation of whatever the machine was unable to 
handle, resolves ambiguities and pro
Try as I might, I have been unable to locate any such software or 
systems that are built around the Mac.  It could be that this area is so 
specialized that there are only IBM/clone systems that will do it, but I 
sure hope not.  Can anyone save me from the horrible prospect of having 
to buy a DOS machine?

Thanks in advance,

Manny Sylvester (MSylvester)
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If anyone has heard of such a beast, we'd really appreciate hearing
from you.  Please email to me; Manny is not on this system.  If I get
many queries (me,too) I'll post info received.

larry	gilmore@venice.sedd.trw.com