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Realtime &
Video Captioning,
Transcription,
Stenography,
Proofreading,
Products
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Is it "Realtime" captioning, "real-time" captioning
or
"real time" captioning?
* Realtime versus real-time
versus
real time *
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(Source: Merriam-Webster Dictionary - 11th Edition)
Main Entry: real time
Function: noun
Date: 1953
: the actual time during which something takes place
Example: The LED messaging board will display the captioning information in real time.
Main Entry: real-time
Function: adjective
Example: The LED messaging board displays real-time captioning information.
Real time as two words is a noun and real-time hyphenated is an adjective, and there is no mention in the dictionary of realtime as one word.
However, over the past few years, there has been a trend in using both the noun, real time, and the adjective, real-time, as one word, realtime.
It is most often seen as one word, realtime, as in "captioning in
realtime mode" versus "realtime captioning" and in the financial sector when referring to stocks, trading, and investments, as in "stock prices in realtime," versus real time, or "stock updates in realtime," versus real time. In fact, there is a company which uses initial caps on each word, RealTime, in their company name.
In the field of real-time captioning, it is often seen as a one-word noun as well as a one-word adjective, realtime, when referring to the act of real-time captioning. An end-user may request "realtime
captioning" when requesting real-time captioning or a client may request the rates for "realtime
captioning" when requesting rates for real-time captioning.
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