Several associations applied for membership in the INTERSTENO federation. According to Article 5.5 of the Statutes, the involved National Groups, if existing, were informed in due time about the application for memberships. No objections or remarks arrived.  

The National Verbatim Reporters Association (NVRA) is a non-profit, professional membership organization, representing voice writing verbatim reporters in the USA. Official court reporters, deposition reporters, broadcast captioners, providers of real time communication services for the hearing-impaired are members.

Voice writing verbatim reporters make real time records of spoken words and actions using speech recognition and other related technologies.

www.nvra.org - email nvra@nvra.org

GZOS (Russia)

GZOS is the only Russian stenography training centre, established in 1941. Through their membership of Intersteno the GZOS hopes to get more worldwide information on shorthand, typing and business organization. The activities of the GZOS are teaching and distant teaching of shorthand, typing and business organization.

http://www.intersteno.ru/eng/ e-mail gzos@mail.ru

African Verbatim Reporters (Cameroon)

The activity fiel of the African Verbatim reporters (Mr. Pius Onana) is situate in reporting, training and consulting:

• as promoting the use and culture of reporting in Africa and in UN administration and management policy,
• as training more Africans in order to meet better job opportunities and to promote the use of new technologies in reporting
• as assisting parliaments, tribunals, television and so on in reporting activities.
• The activity field of the African Verbatim Reporters is situated in reporting, training and consulting.

www.intersteno-afrique.org e-mail: piusonana30@hotmail.com

Scuola Galotta, Potenza Italy

The Scuola Galotta, starting its activities in 1960, aims to prepare good abilities in shorthand and typewriting, but followed the huge development in our technologies with training courses in informatics, stenotype and speech recognition. In 1990 a branch of the school was entirely devoted to court and assembly reporting. The founder and principal of the Scuola Galotta, prof. Teodosio Galotta participates at Intersteno congresses since 1965. Several students of his school took part in Intersteno competitions. In 1995 prof. Galotta presented in Amsterdam a study concerning the rationalisation of the computer keyboarding for the Italian language. The school was also involved with support and sponsoring in the Organization Committee of the 44th Intersteno Congress in Rome.

www.scuolagalotta.it/ email scuola.galotta@memex.it

Stenotype Italia srl, Sesto Fiorentino Italy

This firm was established in 1975 with main goal to foster the use of the stenotype technology following the Italian system of Prof. Marcello Melani. They are marketing the steno machines, teaching trainers of this technology and supporting training programs for schools and associations. They support the subtitling group of the Italian national public television network (RAI). Stenotype Italia has also activities in Argentina and other South American countries since prof. Melani adapted his method of stenotype for Spanish and Portuguese. Prof. Melani always supported the Intersteno activity and took part at several Intersteno congresses in which he presented reports and fostered and sponsored the participation of Italian stenotype competitors who succeeded in the fast-transcription competition. Stenotype Italia supported and sponsored the activity of the Italian group which organized the Congress in Rome 2003 and Prof. Melani was appointed member of the managing group of this event.

www.stenotype.it/ - e-mail info@stenotype.it

Word Technologies LLC (USA)

Word Technologies LLC, represented by Mr. Dan Glassman is an American firm working in the field of shorthand machines with dedicated software for reporters, known as the Eclipse-software, adapted for several languages. Mr. Glassmann participated at several Intersteno Congresses, already for longer time.

www.wordtechnologies.com/ e-mail info@wordtechnologies.com

Stenographers Guild in Madras (India)

The Stenographers Guilde, represented by Mr. Ramaswamy, started already in 1937 with her activities of training in high speed writing with manual Pitman shorthand. Every day 600 to 700 students are visiting their school, open 7 days a week from early in the morning until evening. Training for reporters, journalists, police men and call centres are given. The Stenographers Guilde promotes a shorthand system of Walter Kistler, industrial from the United States, who adapted a German-Swiss system to the English language.

http://www.stenold.org/ e-mail:stenold@vsnl.com

Audioscribe Corporation (USA)

Audioscribe have been operating since 1997, when their first system using speech recognition was sold. Since then, their software has made tremendous improvements for the benefit of speech writers.

Educating the customer has always been a major focus for this company, and they are proud of additting E-Learning to their educational resources.

Chad W.J. Theriot is the CEO and Chief Technical Officer of The AudioScribe Corporation. Mr. Theriot developed the SpeechCAT Pro Software in 1997. He has over twenty years of experience in designing, developing, implementing and training for software applications. Mr. Theriot often speaks at events both in the United States and abroad to educate professionals from around the world about speech recognition technology for the reporting industry.

Marie-Paul Wagener (Luxembourg)

1966-1970: Secretary/accountant in a private company in charge with correspondence and book-keeping.

1971-March 2001: Office for official publications of the European Communities. Sales Department.

1. Until 1977: Clerk in charge of sales of single publications. Contact with customers and other bodies of the European Communities.
2. From 1978: Secretary to the Head of unit of the Sales department,   in charge of correspondence (including use of shorthand), preparation of contracts, participation in meetings and drawing up of the minutes.

From April 2001 to date: Office for official publications of the European Communities. Secretary to the Head of unit 'Author services unit'. Beside general assistance to the head of unit, she is in charge of correspondence (including use of shorthand), registration of the correspondence of the whole unit, all questions relating to the staff, telephone etc.

She works   in different languages (FR, DE, EN, ES, IT, SV). Beside this activies, and during 20 years (1974-1994), teaching of typewriting on behalf of the Ministry of Education.

For the time being she is learning two new languages (Chinese and Czech).

e-mail: wmariep@pt.lu

American Association of Electronic Reporters and Transcribers (USA)

AAERT is the national professional association for electronic / digital court reporters and transcribers in the United States. 

We provide information, networking opportunities, specific best practices guidelines, and related in-service training resources.

Administering certification examinations for E-Reporters and E-Transcribers is a major Association function, with testing conducted nationwide.

Through The Court Reporter, our quarterly e-newsletter, we review technical and other developments in the field to benefit both public- and private-sector practitioners. Please visit our website at www.aaert.org to learn more about the Association and our Annual Convention.

e-mail: aaert@aaert.org

Realtime STENOvations (Canada)

Software for the serious court reporter: digital Cart software and equipments.

www.stenovations.com/ e-mail:support@stenovations.com

Mr. Richard Flament (USA)

Reporter using shorthand since 31 years, 20 of which with the European Parliament and European Union, writing up press releases and meeting reports.

From 1999-March 2010: Reporter at the United Nations Headquarters (New York), in charge of writing up the session reports of the UN General Assembly and Security Council.

April 2010 to present: Reporter at the UN International Court of Justice (The Hague).

In addition and in order to promote shorthand, he is managing the web site http://www.stenographie-en-ligne.com/ il stenographie@hotmail.com

REAL TIME REPORTING S.R.L. (Italy)

Based in Padua, this company offers realtime services with stenotype and automatic transcription of sound files.

Several of its reporters took succesfully part in Intersteno competitions.

http://www.rtreporting.it/ e-mail info@rtreporting.it

Ms. Lisa A. DiMonte (USA) -

With over 32 years of experience in the court reporting and litigation support space, Lisa DiMonte serves as Chief Executive Officer for MyLegal.com. MyLegal.com is a global networking resource exclusively for the legal industry, which provides a platform to connect, collaborate and create business opportunities. Members include lawyers, paralegals, court reporters, transcriptionists, interpreters and translators, process servers, notaries public, trial consultants, videographers, and other legal professionals. MyLegal.com's fully searchable and web-accessible Professional Directory enables professionals in the legal industry to be found by those in need of our Members' services and expertise.

www.mylegal.com e-mail lisa.dimonte@mylegal.com

Calabro Reporting Services LLC (USA)

Calabro Reporting Services is a full-service court reporting and closed captioning agency located in Tucson, Arizona, offering realtime court reporting.

Since 1990, they have served the Arizona legal system, the University of Arizona, and broadcast television -- using the latest technology for the highest quality product, with the most dependable performance.

All court reporters use computer-aided transcription systems. They specialize in medical, technical and complex commercial litigation.

www.calabroreporting.com e-mail admin@calabroreporting.com

Ms. Linda Lee Barry (USA)

Linda Lee Barry, CVR is the President and Founder of Lee & Associates, a full service court reporting agency located in Braintree, Massachusetts. Lee & Associates currently has several stenographers serving a wide variety of clients throughout Massachusetts.

Ms. Barry is a graduate of Aquinas College and earned her CVR in 1996. Ms. Barry served for several years as a board member of NESVRA and is the immediate past president of the organization. She is also a member of the National Verbatim Reporters' Association. Ms. Barry has participated in numerous court reporting gatherings -- recently she served on the committee for the national convention of Voice Writers (NVRA) in Boston. She also participated in the 44th Congresso Intersteno in Rome, Italy in the summer of 2003.

Recently she has upgraded to real-time and is pioneering new advances in voice writing.

www.leeassocreporters.com/ourteam.html e-mail: LLeeBar@verizon.net

Stenomedia (France)

SténoMédia is the result of common interests of a stenotypist with international experience, and two researchers on automatic language processing.

The goals of this company are:

* to include the latest scientific developement in speech recognition technology, into stenotype.

* to offer an efficient and cheap solution for stenbotypist who want to improve their abilities in realtime reporting.

http://stenomedia.ovh.org e-mail contact@stenomedia.com

Sténofac Inc - Montreal - Canada

Well known and acknowledged in the legal environment thanks to its professionalism, SténoFac benefits from state-of-the art armamentarium to meet the highest standards since its inception in 1997. SténoFac is also recognized for its expertise in long term proceedings and daily transcripts. SténoFac is at the forefront of solutions to clients' expectations, relying upon resourceful personnel working as a team to deliver timely and accurate transcripts.

http://www.stenographe.com/ e-mail carmelle_rochon@yahoo.com

ASOCIACION ESPAÑOLA DE ESTENOTIPISTAS - Madrid - Spain

No profit association since 30 years mainly devoted to education with stenotype (Grandjean technology)

www.estenotipiaasociacion.com e-mail: galguerapaz@hotmail.com

Marten Walsh Cherer Ltd. - Ms Diana Tennyson - ALTON - UK

Marten Walsh Cherer has operated in the High Court London and Crown Courts in England and Wales since 1907. Over this period they have covered every aspect of the civil and criminal courts in this country as well as a vast range of private assignments.We have 100 years' experience working in the Crown Courts in England and have been appointed as official shorthand writers/tape loggers to various Crown Courts in the Midlands and the South East.

http://www.depositioncenter.com/sitemap.html

dianatennyson@btinternet.com

KAREN YATES - Minden - USA

Professional court reporter and captioner, past-president of the Nevada Court Reporters Association, past-president of the National Court Reporters Associatin. Teacher of realtime court reporting and lecturer on court reporting topics to lawyers groups, judges groups, and the public.

karenccr@aol.com

CONNY McKARTY KUHL - San Rafael - USA

District Court Official Court Reporter, in the Northern District of California, San Francisco.

sheemack@aol.com

LINDA DRAKE - DRAKE REPORTING - Savannah, GA -USA

lucy3171@comcast.net

TERI GAUDET - Naperville - Chicago - USA

teri_gaudet@hotmail.com

KRISTA BURGESON - 219 South Dearborn Room 1944 - 60604 Chicago

phone: 312-435-5567 fax: 847-998-9783 email: Krista_Burgeson@ilnd.uscourts.gov

I belong to the Illinois Court Reporters Association, the National Court Reporters Assocation, and the United States Court Reporters Association and participate in all of them. I hold many certifications offered by our National Association, the Certified Shorthand Reporter license, the Registered Professional Reporter, the Registered Merit Reporter, the Certified Realtime Reporter certification, the Realtime Systems Administration certification, as well as having provided CART - Computer Aided Realtime Transcription to the deaf community. I attend seminars, conferences, classes, and conventions every year and love to travel and meet knew people and learn about reporting where they are from.

Ms. Kimberley Neeson - Neeson & Associates Court Reporting and Captioning Inc. - Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Ms. Kimberley Neeson is president of Neeson & Associates. With over 30 years in the court reporting field, Kim has been at the forefront of implementing technology into the word industry, first through the early use of computer-aided transcription, then to realtime verbatim transcription, internet realtime court reporting, and voice-to-text translation (CART) for the hearing loss community through on-site and remote services.

In 1996 Kim started her own full-service court reporting and captioning (CART) firm. Neeson has provided services to all levels of court in Ontario, and is the go-to firm in Ontario for US deposition and international arbitration court reporting work. Ms. Neeson has served two terms as president of the Chartered Shorthand Reporters' Association of Ontario, and was a member of the Ontario Government's Joint Committee on Court Reporting and the George Brown College Court Reporting Advisory Committee.

She was recently recognized as one of Canada's top women entrepreneurs by Profit Magazine's W100. Kim writes extensively about the court reporting and CART fields, and is always keen to implement cutting edge technology for delivery of the spoken word into text at her firm.

To contact Kim please email: kim_neeson@neesoncourtreporting.com or visit the firm's website www.neesoncourtreporting.com