VERBATIM REPORTING SERVICES

Welcome to the Verbatim Reporting Services website.  If you want to book a Palantypist, Verbatim Reporter, Speech To Text Reporter, CAT Writer, Real-time Reporter, Court Reporter for an assignment you have come to the right place.  These are all different terms for the same thing.

My name is Francis Barrett and I am a freelance Verbatim Reporter using a Palantype system. 

This system is known as Verbatim Reporting or Speech To Text Reporting which enables deafened or hard of hearing people to access meetings and  conferences via speech displayed on a screen in text.  This is done by me taking down the spoken word at speeds in excess of 230 words per minute in Palantype chords and a computer processes this into full English displayed on a screen.

An added bonus to this system is that, if required, you can have a verbatim transcript of the proceedings in addition to the simultaneous text on the screen.

As there are only approximately 15 accredited Verbatim Reporters in the country, we all travel regularly, nationally and internationally.  I myself have times where I work in Cardiff, London, Edinburgh, N Wales and Birmingham etc all within one week.  Therefore, do not hesitate to contact me even if the assignment would entail a lot of travelling.