Our Audio Transcriber members have successfully passed both theory and practical examinations, showing excellent vocabulary, grammar and punctuation skills, as well as being able to work under pressure.

Transcripts can be provided on an expedited basis, e.g. same day/overnight, or on a standard/delayed basis. This will be discussed between the client and the member on a case-by-case basis.

  • Melanie Ball

  • Contact Info

  • +44 (0)7876 358830
  • rtrlimited@gmail.com
  • http://www.real-timereporting.co.uk/
  • About Our Member

  • MELANIE BALL
    BA (Hons), FBIVR, ACR, CLR

    I was educated at Victoria College, Belfast and went on to obtain a BA (Hons) degree in Classics at Queen's University. Thereafter I trained as a stenographer at the College of Business Studies. Upon leaving college in 1987 I moved to London, where I was based for the next twenty-seven years. In my first year of work I passed the Associateship and Membership exams of the British Institute of Verbatim Reporters and have been a Member now for well over thirty years. Eight years ago I returned home to N. Ireland, but still travel extensively for work.

    For the past thirty-three years I have been working as a freelance stenographer in civil and criminal hearings all over the world, specialising for the last twenty-four years in real-time reporting, having obtained LiveNote Real-time Accreditation in 1996. I also have extensive experience in US depositions. Other types of work I am familiar with are arbitrations, medical inquiries, ecclesiastical inquiries, board and shareholder meetings, courts martial, interviews, industrial tribunals, audio transcription, and I have limited experience of speech-to-text writing for those with a hearing impairment.

    In recent years I have specialised in working on several public inquiries of note in the UK, namely, the Guildford Four/Maguire Seven Inquiry, Billy Wright Inquiry, Robert Hamill Inquiry, the Iraq Inquiry, the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry in N. Ireland and I am presently involved in the Infected Blood Inquiry.

    Since September 2020 I have been a Member of the BIVR Council.

  • Member
  • Arbitrations, Court, Disciplinary Hearings/Regulatory Health, Realtime, Audio Transcriber, Scopist (Editor), Certified LiveNote Reporter
  • UK, EU, Worldwide
  • County Down