Orla Pearson is a director of MyClearText Ltd, trading in both the UK and in Ireland.
Orla trained to be a stenographer in Bray, working in London in the courts system before embarking on a long career at the BBC in 1994. In 2001 Orla was promoted to Assistant Producer in BBC Access Services and worked as part of the management team which delivered to the BBC 5% live subtitled programmes, then 50% and 100% over a period of six years. Managing a team of 22 stenographers and 10 assistants, Orla oversaw the allocation of over 20 hours of live subtitling per day across all the BBC channels and Channel 4 and 24-hour news channels. With a whole range of new programmes to be live subtitled Orla wrote many essential guides to live subtitling different subject matter covering style and content and is still being used on sports output across BBC, Sky, BT Sport sports output and Channel 4, including light entertainment and big event programmes.
In 2010 the BBC sold off the subtitling department to a private company, Orla took the opportunity to take redundancy and freelancing for new suppliers for a few years. In 2012, with colleague Elaine McCarthy, MyClearText was born. Offering high-quality subtitles directly to deaf and hard of hearing people but also live subtitling at events for companies wanting to be accessible to a wider audience of both deaf people and the millions of others who use subtitles to enhance their understanding of the spoken word. The company has grown from strength-to-strength with an extensive client list. MyClearText is known for its high quality writers and expertise in delivering live subtitles at events and meetings. We always work to build relationships with clients, to work with companies to develop and widen their live captioning offer to their employees and clients by showing them what is possible and the wider benefits to everyone.
Orla is responsible for all new business and client relationships and coordinates the onsite events and the technical side of the business.
Orla Pearson