AVSTTR

The UK professional Association of Verbatim Speech-to-Text Reporters. Need verbatim STT, live captioning? Come straight to the source!

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Just heard the news about the lovely Tim Barlow. Some of our members worked for him many times over the years, such a gent with a great legacy of work. RIP Tim 😢

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@NRCPD @ASLIuk @VLP_TerpTweets @ALAS_lips @IoCN_1 @ALSLips @BIVR_TWEETS Along with others here not quite sure why registrants should be charged a fee for this?

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Totally agree!

[Rachel Smith @RachelSmithRSLI]

@NRCPD @ASLIuk @VLP_TerpTweets @ALAS_lips @IoCN_1 @ALSLips @BIVR_TWEETS @AVSTTR Surely this information should be provided free of charge to registrants, I’m not clear why we have to pay for this.

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Our website is back up and running but unfortunately the email booking service is still down. Please email any STTR/captioning bookings to the Chair: [email protected], or you can contact us here or on our FB page.

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Our Chair @JJacobieSTTR and member Jean Gough, with facilitation from @TutiHarrison, had a very successful weekend delivering the @SignatureDeaf STTR training course to a fab group. Once assessments are done soon, hopefully there’ll be more STTRs on the @NRCPD Register!

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The Deaf community celebrating the moment the BSL Bill passes its Second Reading in UK parliament. A historical moment!

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@natalyadell @ALAS_lips @ELipspeaker @FryLegal I will check with members who have done court work more recently, haven’t done any myself for years so I can’t remember

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We are doing some research around gaps in communication support for deaf English users. We value your feedback on what you believe the problems are around access for deaf English users and what you would like to see happen in the future: https://t.co/QTi5581AGW (1/2)

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@AbilityToday We’re all just very, very busy these days! I’m sure if anyone gets a cancellation they will be in touch.

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@Breish_Rowe @natalyadell @NUBSLI @ASLIuk @ALSLips @ALAS_lips We don’t really do much in the way of medical appointment support and everything we do is still online these days but we would definitely need to be in the room if we were booked for one.

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@efftheineffable Hi Jess, yes we’re all working online at the moment :) visit https://t.co/TWNBah6x0T and send out a request using the Book a a Reporter form.

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@NRCPD Most of our members actually have a minimum of 200wpm and can write up to 300wpm on occasion :) You’d be surprised how fast people often speak!

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@AVSTTR @BIVR_TWEETS

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@natalyadell @ImmyKaur @mycleartext @121captions Thank @natalyadell All our freelance STTR members can provide captions for various different online platforms and are happy to discuss this with you. visit https://t.co/TWNBah6x0T to contact our STTRs

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@natalyadell @zaranosaur @BlondeHistorian Thanks @natalyadell :)

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@zaranosaur @natalyadell @BlondeHistorian Hi @zaranosaur, if you could send me an email at [email protected] with more info about the work, I will have a chat with our members about this

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Please confirm you are extending the SEISS. Our members, all freelance, can’t go back to work until mass gatherings are allowed eg conferences/events/meetings. SEISS has been amazing but needs to continue #AskRishi

[Association of Lipspeakers with Additional Sign @ALAS_lips]

We may lose professionals altogether if their self employed business isn’t sustainable. Bills don’t reduce. Energy bills and food need to be paid for. Keep the parity with furloughed employees #Equality

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@RishiSunak Majority of our members can’t get back to work until mass gatherings are allowed. Same goes for @ASLIuk @ALSLips @NUBSLI @ALAS_lips @NRCPD Drop in eligibilty to £30,000 avg trading profits will cripple our members. Dropping the SEISS 80% to 60% would be less harmful

[Julia Jacobie @JJacobieSTTR]

@RishiSunak I’ve heard the eligibility threshold for SEISS will drop to £30,000 - what about those of us who can’t go back to work because every day we work at mass gatherings eg conferences/events and there isn’t any work??

[LipspeakerUK @LipspeakerUK]

Meet our Director, Lesley Weatherson. The ONLY qualified midwife and BSL Interpreter in the UK - possibly even in the world! 😃

#DAW2020 #DeafAwarenessWeek #InternationalDayOfTheMidwife #ThankYouMidwives #RemovingTheBarriers #Inclusive

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As we mark #DeafAwarenessWeek during #lockdown in a global pandemic, the issues that Deaf people experience in everyday life have never been as stark, says Dr Rob Wilks https://t.co/rItuw5zYpk

@BritishDeafNews @BDA_Deaf @royaldeaf @SignHealth @DisabilityNow @USW_LegalClinic