There was an article in the New York Times about this service, a company
called Hearingroom.Com -
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/05/cyber/capital/30capital.html
(the article is still on-line at the above URL, as of Tuesday afternoon -
free, but you have to be registered). They will provide real-time
streaming audio as well as, apparently, live transcriptions (with voice
recognition technology) of congressional committee hearings. It will cost
five to fifteen grand a year and looks like it is targeted to the lobbyist
crowd, but the article mentions it will cover ALL committee hearings,
whereas "Traditional transcription services cover less than half of the
nearly 200 committees of Congress". They'll also archive the audio and
text.
Brian Huddleston bhuddle@loyno.edu
Evening/Weekend Reference Librarian http://www.loyno.edu/~bhuddle
Loyola University New Orleans School of Law
7214 St. Charles Ave. (504) 861-5486 V
New Orleans, LA 70118 (504) 861-5895 F
On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Beth Morey wrote:
> Does anyone recall recently seeing an announcement for a new subscription service that will be offering audio / video recordings of (I believe) Congressional debates? My memory is vague on this, as it seemed beyond our needs at the time. I have searched the law-lib archives without success, but I may have seen it elsewhere.
>
> I apologize for my vagueness!
>
> Beth Morey
> Assistant Librarian
> Long, Aldridge & Norman, LLP
> Atlanta, GA 30308
> (404) 527-8425
>
> bmorey@lanlaw.com
>
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