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Newscasters efforts decoding .sgstn stenographic stenonote City Council record.

I downloaded a .sgstn file and poked around in it. I haven't seen anything like that since the DOS days and Norton Utilities. I Googled around and everything that comes up points right back to Boston and the city council. Apparently there is some kind of feud going on between the city council and various political interest groups and this is some kind of cruel hoax by Boston city government. They must have hired a hacker to create a new file format that no one else in the universe knows anything about.

Keep us posted. This is both frustrating.... and at the same time... hilarious.
 
LMGTFY: .sgstn is a Case CATalyst file. Looks pretty common in the stenographer world.
http://www.stenograph.com/category.aspx?id=40001&subid=4040001

I'm not immediately seeing any way to read a .sgstn file without paying for the (spendy) Case CATalyst software. Presumably there is some way for the software to export these files in a more commonly-accessible format, perhaps a polite but strongly worded letter to the original sender is in order?
 
carmen said:
is there video footage of the meeting?
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Video/audio is available for some public meetings at http://www.cityofboston.gov/citycouncil/live.asp without the captions for folks with hearing loss. Quicker to go through, the stenographic record is used by the City Clerks' Office, used by the city stenographers, used by the some of the 100 or so central city council staff.

There are automated captioning mechanisms like the thing on youtube that captions inaccurately and for WRKO-AM Boston radio 680 broadcasts an automatically generated transcript inaccurate but useful, for example scroll to bottom at
http://audio.wrko.com/a/56949967/to-voucher-or-not-to-voucher-that-is-the-question.htm
 
carmen said:
is there video footage of the meeting?
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I' am going to go way out on a limb here. I have NO KNOWLEDGE of what is going on in Boston that has made .sgstn software such a hot issue but here is my guess, and why available video probably does not "scratch the itch" that these people have. (I am saying this based on the tone of some of the stuff Google turned up.)

The people having trouble with the minutes being forwarded to them in .sgstn may well have been AT the meeting, LIVE! They may well have made their own video which they know has not been doctored. I get a hint that they want to know WHAT ACTUALLY IS RECORDED IN THE MINUTES as a permanent record. While they have fresh in their memory what actually happened, maybe they want to see what is ending up the the permanent record... in the archives.

What I saw and heard happen is not always what I find when I read the newspaper the next day or ask for minutes a year from now. It can happen at your PTA meeting, it can happen in the Congressional record... it may happen if you attend the annual corporate meeting as a shareholder.
 
theszak, tried plover, which doesnt seem to have an 'open' dialog. and the free version of Catalyst's reader used a different extension for files, after renaming this to that's extension it wouldnt open. in WINE anyways.
 
This is the stenographic notes from the reporter, in other words the shorthand notes, untranscribed. You need the transcribed notes that are transcribed into English. The reporter's notes are unique to the individual reporter and need to be transcribed by the reporter using court reporter software. That's who you need to contact.
My guess is the wrong file was attached giving you the note file and not the English file.

This file starts out:
Good afternoon, and thank you ---

it appears to be the beginning of the afternoon proceedings, welcoming a 6th grade class etc., etc.
 
Lesia said:
This is the stenographic notes from the reporter, in other words the shorthand notes, untranscribed. You need the transcribed notes that are transcribed into English. The reporter's notes are unique to the individual reporter and need to be transcribed by the reporter using court reporter software. That's who you need to contact.
My guess is the wrong file was attached giving you the note file and not the English file.

This file starts out:
Good afternoon, and thank you ---

it appears to be the beginning of the afternoon proceedings, welcoming a 6th grade class etc., etc.
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a) How did you get "Good afternoon, and thank you"?... b) Anything else you can get from it?...
 
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