A semantic point: a stenographic transcript is a recording, just not an audio recording. Furthermore, court stenographers prepare the final transcript from an a

A semantic point: a stenographic transcript is a recording, just not an audio recording. Furthermore, court stenographers prepare the final transcript from an audio recording, and setting up and controlling the audio equipment to record court proceedings is one of the court stenographer's duties. Their in-court duties do, of course, include reading back statements made moments ago, which is much more practical to do from a page than from a recording, hence why voice-to-text software today and steno machines previously are so closely associated with court stenography.