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Court Reporters and Simultaneous Captioners

US evidence · AI already used for 2 of 10 main tasks · Check another job

Use verbatim methods and equipment to capture, store, retrieve, and transcribe pretrial and trial proceedings or other information. Includes stenocaptioners who operate computerized stenographic captioning equipment to provide captions of live or prerecorded broadcasts for hearing-impaired viewers.

10 main tasks · most important first

Your main tasks and AI

Importance
  1. 01Provide transcripts of proceedings upon request of judges, lawyers, or the public.AI could speed this up a lot
  2. 02Record symbols on computer storage media and use computer aided transcription to translate and display them as text.People already use AI for this at work
  3. 03Record verbatim proceedings of courts, legislative assemblies, committee meetings, and other proceedings, using computerized recording equipment, electronic stenograph machines, or stenomasks.AI could speed this up a lot
  4. 04Record depositions and other proceedings for attorneys.AI could speed this up a lot
  5. 05Ask speakers to clarify inaudible statements.AI could speed this up a lot
  6. 06Proofread transcripts for correct spelling of words.AI could speed this up a lot
  7. 07File a legible transcript of records of a court case with the court clerk's office.AI could speed this up a lot
  8. 08Transcribe recorded proceedings in accordance with established formats.People already use AI for this at work
  9. 09Take notes in shorthand or use a stenotype or shorthand machine that prints letters on a paper tape.AI could speed this up a lot
  10. 10File and store shorthand notes of court session.AI could speed this up a lot

Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.

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