The Advantages of Stenographic Court Reporting and Realtime Over Digital Audio Recording/electronic
- Stenographic court reporters cover the cost of upgrades to new equipment and software in most jurisdictions. The costs of software and hardware updates are subsequently shifted onto the taxpayer when digital audio recording is used.
- A realtime stenographic court reporter can provide instantaneous “voice-to-text” transcription for any judge, attorney, juror, or witness.
- A realtime stenographic court reporter can also provide judge and all parties a daily record of the proceedings.
- Electronic recording and digital audio recording transcripts may have inaudible statements, tapes are easily lost or misplaced, the equipment may fail or a clerk forgets to turn it on.
- Studies conducted by Justice Served, and independent court management consulting company found that the cost of producing a transcript from a stenographic court reporter is less than the cost of producing a transcript from a digital audio recording.
- Jurisdictions in New Mexico, New Jersey, and Texas, as well as others, have seen a return to a stenographic court reporter due to failures in their audio recording systems.
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