Court Reporter VS. Tape Recorder
The Decades Old Battle of the Court Reporter vs. The Tape Recorder
Allow me please to define court reporter:
The court reporter is the person who uses a stenograph machine to take down every word in a proceeding. The machines have fewer keys than a standard keyboard, and several keys can be pressed simultaneously to represent certain sounds. The word “no,” for example, is written “tpho,” with all four keys hit at the same time. Tph is the “n.”
The goal in court reporting school is to be able to type 225 words a minute, with 95 percent accuracy. It typically takes about two years to master.
Let me define tape recorder:
A tape recorder is an audio storage device that records and plays back sounds, including articulated voices, usually using magnetic tape, either wound on a reel or in a cassette, for storage.
There are many age old studies proving how either the reporter or the recorder is more beneficial to the pocketbook. As always the bottom line boils down to the dollar!
In 1983 the NY Times published a study:
In all tests of the reporter vs. the recorder, the reporter has proven superiority in all areas of the testing.
A published study from Utah, concludes that that state's court reporter system could not be replaced at this time by tape recorders and that ''transcripts of court reporters are far superior to those of recording machines.''
The state of NJ has had over 12 years’ experience with recordings and 97 percent of lawyers and 88 percent of judges have been DISSATISFIED with the quality of the transcripts.
North Carolina already uses audio-recording equipment in a number of courtrooms, mostly at the district court level where the likelihood of appeal is low, and the reviews have been less than glowing.
“As the saying goes, you get what you pay for,” David Jester, a lawyer said. “The transcript from audio is not nearly as good as one from a court reporter, and it takes 30
Allow me please to define court reporter:
The court reporter is the person who uses a stenograph machine to take down every word in a proceeding. The machines have fewer keys than a standard keyboard, and several keys can be pressed simultaneously to represent certain sounds. The word “no,” for example, is written “tpho,” with all four keys hit at the same time. Tph is the “n.”
The goal in court reporting school is to be able to type 225 words a minute, with 95 percent accuracy. It typically takes about two years to master.
Let me define tape recorder:
A tape recorder is an audio storage device that records and plays back sounds, including articulated voices, usually using magnetic tape, either wound on a reel or in a cassette, for storage.
There are many age old studies proving how either the reporter or the recorder is more beneficial to the pocketbook. As always the bottom line boils down to the dollar!
In 1983 the NY Times published a study:
In all tests of the reporter vs. the recorder, the reporter has proven superiority in all areas of the testing.
A published study from Utah, concludes that that state's court reporter system could not be replaced at this time by tape recorders and that ''transcripts of court reporters are far superior to those of recording machines.''
The state of NJ has had over 12 years’ experience with recordings and 97 percent of lawyers and 88 percent of judges have been DISSATISFIED with the quality of the transcripts.
North Carolina already uses audio-recording equipment in a number of courtrooms, mostly at the district court level where the likelihood of appeal is low, and the reviews have been less than glowing.
“As the saying goes, you get what you pay for,” David Jester, a lawyer said. “The transcript from audio is not nearly as good as one from a court reporter, and it takes 30