A professional who operates computerized stenographic captioning equipment to provide $T3captions$T1 of live television broadcast for hearing-impaired viewers. Responsibilities include:

• Discusses program or news story content with broadcast's producer to learn new words and terms which are not included in computer's stenographic glossary.
• Devises stenographic equivalents of new words or terms and adds them to stenographic glossary.
• Reviews glossary items before broadcast for words and terms that are likely to be used on-air.
• Listens to live program dialogue and types stenographic equivalents for words and phrases to provide on-screen captions.
• May type captions for movie or taped television program (caption writer ).