CATapult Your Dictionary CDs have assisted thousands of students and court reporters to increase speed and advance their skills. Now it’s your turn!
The only one of its kind, CATapult CDs will absolutely change the way you work and advance in your career and schooling for court reporting and captioning, and will help you earn NCRA and state certifications.
Dictionary Building Program Prep Material for Court Reporting, CART and Captioning Training, Education Includes:
CATapult CD Series A - H: Dictionary Building Software Program; More than a One-Trick Pony
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Suzanne Small, RDR, RMR, CRR, CBC, CPE, CSR
Monette Benoit’s materials, www.CRRbooks.com and CATapult CD series are wonderful for dictionary building and test prep, too. They are highly recommended by captioning companies for transitioning reporters and have been a tremendous help to me.
CATapult CDs have many features, which include dictionary building as a free feature and well over 500,000 words, phrases.
Get all eight CATapult CD programs and save!
CATapult Volume A: Sports
CATapult Volume B: Legal
CATapult Volume C: Politics
CATapult Volume D: Science
CATapult Volume E: Religion
CATapult Volume F: Financial
CATapult Volume G: Medical
CATapult Volume H: Trades
Over half a million words, 420 categories, per your requests. Each ’CATapult’ ™ CD is not a one-trick pony -- dictionary building is only one feature. CD series has free multiple uses, features, and applications for captioners, reporters, students.
CATapult: The only software program where you open your CAT translation software and write words against your dictionary, so you can detect problems/potential conflicts AS YOU BUILD.
CATapult: Three easy steps, and you’re good to go. You never import, overwriting strokes.
- 1. Open your CAT realtime window / minimize it.
- 2. Open CATapult CD / pick list / split screen.
- 3. Bring up realtime file / split screen.
Before You Buy Court Reporting Dictionary Software You Should Ask: Will you be asked to ’import’ words?
1. Can you create/build your own lists of words? Is so, are there limits?
2. Can you adjust the speed of presentation for each word, each term to three modes - listen, see and jumble? (Can you adjust the fonts, colors, too?)
3. Can you realtime with your CAT software OPEN while you are working with any list of words? Avoid and eliminate problems, duplications, hesitations, frustrations.
4. Are you limited to the number of times you can work with a specific list, specific computers?
5. Can you hear how each word is pronounced without taking time to go to an additional site to listen to each word? This is tedious and time-consuming.
6. When you merge/import your words from a list, will they overwrite previous entries that you want to keep?
7. * You should not have to purchase names from any rosters, teams -- names with unusual spellings -- *** This is all available on the Internet; you should be able to take this information and use it FREE in a custom feature within your dictionary building software to help you with court reporting training.
8. Do you have a money-back guarantee?
CATapult Program Features Include:
- Ability to select from three different modes of practice
- * Flash the material on the screen in sequential order * Flash the material on the screen in random order * Dictate the material for practice
- Ability to adjust speed, volume, and font presentation
- Ability to write words into your personal or job dictionary using your realtime software as it is open and running
- Ability to practice the words once you write them
- Ability to create and practice your own drill material - (unlimited)
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Kathy DiLorenzo, RDR-CRR-CBC, Vice President, National Reporter Relations, LegaLink / VITAC Corporation, divisions of WordWave
As you’re beginning to undertake this huge, but rewarding endeavor...while theory, speed and accuracy are the foundation to becoming a successful captioner, equally important to the process is your strategy to reach your goal and keeping the bigger picture in view. I’ve had a long history in training captioners, and it is my belief that the strongest captioners are those who are strong writers. Seems simplistic, I know, but the reason that they’re strong writers is not because they’ve got perfect fingers on perfect hands (There are successful men in our profession whose hands barely fit on the keyboard!). The reason that they’re strong writers is because they can process information at a very rapid pace. And they can process information quickly because they ’know’ what they’re writing. You can’t write well what you don’t know and what you don’t understand. In the end, it’s all about words, but you’ve got to know the words and the subjects.
Toward that end, I want to recommend to any newbies out there that the materials that you are using to prepare to caption are equally important as the actual writing skills. One product that I would highly recommend is the ’CATapult’ CD Series.
Monette Benoit has a long and illustrious career in developing materials that give captioners and captioner-wannabes the ’knowledge’ that they need to caption well. The CD Series includes a realtime dictionary builder that is compatible with any CAT system, and it even allows you to import your own lists or lists that are shared on this forum and others. CATapult contains over a half a million words among 420 categories ... You can find out more about CATapult by visiting http://www.catapultdix.com/
Lynne Marie Zakrzewski, RMR, CRR CBC, CPE, CSR, Realtime Broadcast Captioner
A great word-building program, especially when it comes to sports, is the "Sports CATapult" CD by Monette Benoit. Monette has a whole host of wonderful CDs that are great for building your dictionary!
Broadcast Captioner, RPR, CRR, CBC, CSR
I am working with the CATapult dictionary building CDs each night after I get off air. It’s amazing how quickly you can get through a CD that way. I had tried (another dictionary building software) and found that I was overwriting outlines already in my dictionary, and I did not like the results. Writing the words in a realtime file works for me. It’s hard to believe that I’ve been captioning seven years. I’ve been in this field of court reporting over 28 years now and still feel like a beginner now and then.
No complicated maze, rabbit trail of steps, prior to importing, merging words, which you are unable to view with an ’open’ realtime dictionary. Plus: You may Listen To Your Text with your CAT software open, running.
Are you a student or experienced reporter cross-training
into captioning and realtime work?
This CD is a must-have and will assist you in the classroom, judicial and free-lance setting, CART and captioning daily broadcasts. You will catapult your skills with expert witnesses, speed-tests, 24/7 news broadcasts and launch your dictionary. This CATapult CD program will change the way you work and advance in your career, schooling and assist you to earn NCRA and state certifications.
Volumes A - H: View your steno notes as you write in realtime, avoid conflicts; listen to your text while your realtime window is open.
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This CD will assist you to prepare to write ’it’ right the first time.
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How will you remember how to write each word accurately, without hesitation? Words are flashed for repetition, in one-line-per-minute increments, 50 - 250 lines per minute on each ’CATapult’ CD.
SEE and HEAR each word ~ Reporters write what they hear, not what they see. No need to go to another source listening to how words are pronounced. Leading court reporting instructors ask: "How can you possibly build a dictionary and expand your skills if you can’t hear the words?" Working with our CDs, you stay focused. Copyright ©
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By writing against your dictionary, you can always check your tran rate. **Write directly to your CAT program avoiding the creation of conflicts that can occur with ’import’ and ’merge’.
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Build dictionaries, mastering each word, by entering each word safely and efficiently with ’CATapult’ CDs.
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Build Speed with each ’CATapult’ CD.
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EXCELLENT for CART, Broadcast Captioning, Judicial, Depo prep.
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PERFECT for people working to pass speed tests.
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"Create your own Drills" within each CD, permits you to enter each word, from 50 lines per minute to 250 lines per minute, which is untranned, misstroked, dropped, misspelled.
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Prevent stroking problems, errors, as you customize drills to CATapult you to the next level, to the next speed, onto your next goal.
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Prep for written knowledge exams and academic testing, CSR, RPR, RMR, RDR, CBC, CCP with ’CATapult’ CDs.
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Prep for any topic, show, job, expert witness and/or a speed test within minutes with ’CATapult’ CDs.
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PLUS: **You can load each CD on as many computers as you choose.
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We do not limit the number of computers where you may work with each CD as you CATapult your skills and your time, launching your dictionary!
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And Monette continues to privately consult, coach and motivate CART providers, captioners, reporters, instructors and students.
The first, best dictionary enhancer in the world, which you may customize.
Since 1990, Court Reporter Reference Books, CRRBooks & CDs, is assisting people within 17 countries. Monette Benoit and Robert McCormick will assist you to set new goals and to take action, ensuring greater success with each new day. We are committed to helping you.
Experts and Leaders who recommend Court Reporter Test Prep CDs:
Mary Smith Agren; Deanna Baker; Martin H. Block; Jack Boenau; Judith Brentano; Robert Clark, NCRA Librarian-Historian; Kevin Wm. Daniel, author, "Writing Naked;" Kathy DiLorenzo, VITAC; Kevin Donnelly; Steven Edmondson, author, "Literary Moments;" Pamela Giardina, Director, Baton Rouge School of Court Reporting; Gayl Hardeman, author, "DePuzzLer;" Mary Knapp, author, "Complete Court Reporter’s Handbook;" Judy Larson; Richard Lederer, NCRA language columnist; Robert W. McCormick, co-author, "The Complete Court Reporter’s Handbook, Third Edition;’ Jean Melone, President, StenoTech Career Institute; SueLynn Morgan; Pauletta Morse, NCRA Journal contributing editor; Nancy Patterson, author, "NCRA, Preparing For The RPR, RMR Written Knowledge Test;" Anita Paul; Sara Prince; Kathy Robson; Jennifer Sati, Program Advisor, Anoka Technical Center; Marcia Simmons; Sheryl Stapp; Carol Thomas; J. Edward Varallo, author, "The Real-Time Writer’s Manual" and Rhonda M. Zacharias, TextStream Institute of Court Reporting
Since 1990, www.CRRBooks.com offers court reporting and captioning books and CDs, test prep materials and tutoring/coaching services for court reporters, captioners and CART providers. Plus, CATapult Your Dictionary offers interactive, real-time dictionary building CDs for multiple industries, including financial, legal/business, medical, politics, religions, sports, auto technology and weather/science.
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