Every word, on the record.
Real-time stenography, captioning and transcription for courts, conferences and hearings. Based in Queenstown, working anywhere in Aotearoa New Zealand and beyond.
Thirty years of listening, at 300 words a minute.
Mercury Transcripts is Katherine O’Brien, a stenographer who began in the Wellington and Christchurch courts and has reported proceedings of every kind since 1999. She covers conferences, hearings and events nationwide and internationally.
A live draft runs on your screen while proceedings are under way. An edited transcript follows the same evening. Bilingual transcripts with te reo Māori are provided where appropriate.
What Mercury covers
Six ways to turn the spoken word into an accurate written record, live or after the fact.
Named for the messenger of the gods
Mercury, known to the Greeks as Hermes, carried words between worlds with speed and agility. He ruled communication, eloquence and trade, and his winged sandals meant no message arrived late.
It is the right name for work where every word matters and none can wait.
Confidentiality
Mercury Transcripts hears sensitive material every week. Everything stays strictly confidential, in every situation.
Te Tiriti o Waitangi
A Tiriti-based practice. Te reo Māori is an official language of Aotearoa and appears in transcripts wherever it is spoken.
Values
Integrity, conscientiousness, compassion, sustainability and openness, with a social conscience and work done with purpose.
Planning a conference or a hearing?
Tell Katherine the date, the venue and what you need. Quotes usually come back the same day.