
IS STENO OLD FASHIONED OR THE FUTURE?
Stenographic court reporters are highly skilled at capturing the spoken word and instantly reducing it to writing. They are able to provide usable realtime translation, immediate rough drafts, and same-day final transcripts. Alexa, Siri, voice recognition. Have you ever seen those three things get something wrong? Really wrong? Have you ever had two people having a conversation using those methods be recorded and rendered properly? How about three people? How about foreign speakers with accents? How about very technical chemical, medical, financial terminology? Have you ever seen a transcript with the parenthetical "(inaudible)"? How about multiple times and during important testimony? Have you ever had a transcript not be available because there was a glitch and the recording was lost? Have you ever had a digital recording provide realtime text? or an immediate rough draft? How about a final transcript the same day? Or did you have to wait three weeks? four weeks? more? Was all the punctuation correct? Were all the words correct? Were they spelled correctly?