About this episode

Brynn Reynolds Seymour discusses the role of a Virtual Transcript Manager and how to train one effectively.

What is a VTM? A Virtual Transcript Manager is a project manager for court reporters. They manage the coordination between scopists and proofreaders, the data, the deadlines, the captions and appearances, everything that allows court reporters to focus 100% on the part of the workflow that only we can do: showing up and taking down the testimony as accurately as possible, in realtime. I already know what you might be thinking -- if you haven't heard me talk about the VTM before and explain in depth what it is, you might be jumping to conclusions about some kind of AI tool to manage our transcripts. While that is my ultimate goal, right now it's 100% human-led while we solidify the process -- so if you were ever interested in my VTM program, NOW is the time to follow along and train your VTM with me. All you have to do is pick the right person -- whether you have to post the job on Indeed and host interviews like I did, or whether you have a college student you trust and can train, or a loyal scopist that's willing to take on project management of your transcripts (for an agreed-upon rate), feel free to join my cohort (this is coming into existence as I'm writing this) and we can…

People in this episode

Host: Brynn Reynolds Seymour

Topics covered

• Virtual Transcript Manager
• court reporting
• project management
• scopists
• proofreaders
• workflow

Keywords

• VTM
• court reporters
• transcript management
• scopists
• proofreaders
• training

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Indeed

Products: Virtual Transcript Manager

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