Many captioners caption TV news from their office at home - with only a computer, software and a steno machine - hundreds of miles away from a TV station. The computer is connected through a telephone line to an encoder located at the TV station. The TV station feeds the news through the encoder before broadcasting. As the captioner watches the broadcast (via cable or satellite), he/she enters the words into the steno machine. The encoder receives the captions through the telephone line and combines the video with the captions. The time delay for this process is insignificant.