In 1999, I took a self-study approach to learning realtime voice writing since there were no schools teaching the method at the time. I became a Certified Court Reporter through the State of Louisiana and Certified Verbatim Reporter through the National Verbatim Reporters Association (NVRA) in 2000, attained my Realtime Verbatim Reporter certification from the NVRA the following year, and have used speech recognition from the inception of my realtime career.

I've spoken with people around the country who have expressed concerns regarding the use of this technology for realtime services, and too many of their important questions had gone unanswered, so I decided to write Voice Writing Method™.

Contained in this book are a combination of techniques that have been practiced through the years by computer-aided transcription (CAT) vendors and numerous voice writing professionals along with myself. Pooling together all of these resources, I have extracted the techniques that best work for voice writers generically and blended them together into one method for ease of use.

My message is that it is possible to provide accurate realtime services with speech recognition, and my objective is to provide a basic education on how to achieve it.