Stenographers aren’t just fast typists, they are specialists trained to produce a written (shorthand) record of the hearing in real time. Audio recordings make

Stenographers aren’t just fast typists, they are specialists trained to produce a written (shorthand) record of the hearing in real time. Audio recordings make this obsolete. Certified full transcripts are still needed, but they can be produced more quickly using concurrent typists and proof readers, and more cheaply because you don’t need to hire specialists trained in the use of expensive stenotype machines, or pay them to sit around in the courtroom when nobody is speaking. It’s not a novel idea, which is why I mentioned that as far as I know, stenotype is now used only in the United States. https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-13035979 https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-13035979