Hey, Leslie. I'm a reporter in Houston and am looking for a scopist. I saw you posted on a scopist's page about doing some work for you and was wondering if you could tell me if she did a good job. I don't want to put her name here, so if you have a chance, please e-mail and I'll give it to you. My e-mail address is jill.moyle@gmail.com. Thanks!

Hi leslie,

here are some links in case you like to read a bit about your new writer and what other reporters think.
http://www.csrnation.com/forum/topics/1736041:Topic:31157

and here is Greta Duckett from Stenovations page, there are some interesting comments there.

http://www.csrnation.com/profile/GretaDuckett

Good luck!

Leslie,

Yes, I am a convert. I simply cannot write on my Stentura anymore without feeling as if I am writing in concrete. I've had no issues with hand/arm pain, but right now I am a part-timer so not writing that many pages anyway. Have you spoken with Jenny Griffin? She was using the LS for a while and felt it was having a negative impact on her thumbs.

Greta Duckett has different config files uploaded to a website for experimenting. I can send you mine if you'd like. It's taken me a while, been on the LS 18 months now, but my translation is very good now. Don't mean to scare you that it took 18 months to get there, but each update of the software brings more improvement.

Here's the link to Greta's blog http://myredlightspeed.blogspot.com/

You can find the config files there. My current one is not uploaded, so email me at tmgscoping@charter.net and I'll send it along. Did you read the LS section on depoman? It's a goldmine of information.

Leslie, I'm not the expert on the LightSpeed, but you have some questions on what I did, feel free to e-mail me. ymheinze@hotmail.com.

Good day, Leslie. How's it going? I am sure keeping busy with trial work, I bet you are busy too. I wonder if you found enough scopist and that you are getting everything done quickly enough? I got a 100 page depo out (With too many dropped sentences, and terrible steno notes, from the same no-name reporter.) within 24 hours! I love that I am getting quicker. Let me know if you still need help. I am not at all sure how you work it, are there any steno notes to rely on or is it all audio? You are on Catalyst, I think you said, so it must work with my system. Well, either way, have a great day.

Leslie, I responded to your asking about the arbs back in March. See below. Thanks.

Hi Leslie....thanks for contacting me. I don't think I can help with your dailies, but I am definitely up for helping you with any overflow. Please e-mail me if you're interested in talking more and wanting to know rates, turnarounds, etc. Good luck w/ your arbs!

Hello, Leslie.

Thank you for your inquiry. I definitely am interested in taking overflow work at any time. I would like to increase my workload. Are you requesting the daily arbs to be scoped with full audio or spot checking only? Spot audio is my preference, especially when scoping dailies, especially if the content is very dense or technical or overall a lot of pages. Also, I have experienced in the past occasions that in listening to word-for-word audio, the scoping turned into more complete transcribing, filling in full dropped sentences. Way too time consuming. I look forward to your reply. Thanks again,
Renee Greenwald
CaseCatalyst scopist