Role Responsibilities

• Gathering and arranging the material to be typed, following instructions
• Reproducing the spoken word, environmental sounds and song lyrics as captions for cinema and television programming
• Filing and storing completed documents on computer hard drive or disk, or maintaining a computer filing system to store, retrieve or update documents
• Typing written material from rough drafts, corrected copies, voice recordings, or shorthand using a computer, word processor or typewriter
• Transcribing information recorded in shorthand and on sound recording equipment
• Taking dictation and recording other matter in shorthand
• Checking completed work for proper spelling, grammar, punctuation and formatting