It is less expensive than CART but may not be satisfactory in all situations as it only provides a summary. The captioner uses reduced keystrokes and text condensing strategies. C-Print provides near verbatim readout. Few people in the United States are trained to do C-Print yet. The initial training takes one week.
Proficiency increases over a period of one year.
The cost ranges between professional notetaking and interpreting. All three systems can display the words onto a screen or a laptop monitor. All are suitable for individual or group situations. Edited printouts and disks may be available from all three systems. A frequent question to SHHH headquarters is whether we think it is a good deal to purchase a hearing aid through a dispenser on the Internet.