Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART), also known as real-time or live-event captioning, provides live, individual, in-person captioning services to the deaf and hearing-impaired. CART providers accompany clients to events such as college classes, religious services, doctor's appointments, weddings, convention speeches and entertainment events, where they use a stenotype machine connected to a laptop computer to translate speech into text for the client to read. CART provides may even translate environmental sounds and cues as needed.

Another option is remote CART, which works in the same way, except the provider does not accompany the client to the event. The provider listens to the event audio via a phone line and transmits the typed captions to the client via an Internet connection. Due to his or her location, a remote CART provider is not able to document environmental sounds or cues as accurately as an in-person CART provider.

Whether in-person or remote, CART providers typically work freelance on a contract basis.

If you've ever used the closed captioning feature on your television, chances are you've wondered how it's done. This is where broadcast captioners come in.

People trained as court reporters fill a variety of specialized positions that utilize their unique skill set. Here's an overview of several different careers that court reporting students can choose to pursue after graduation:

There were over 20,000 court reporters working in the US in 2007.

Here are the employment statistics for some of the major industries for court reporters that year, according to the the Bureau of Labor Statistics:

Here are the states with the highest mean annual court reporter salaries for court reporters in 2007, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics: