Look, your Honour! - no hands

As technology revolutionizes the sleepy world of transcription, the traditional clicking of court reporters on their stenographic machines may disappear...

The ease of stenomask reporting, or “voice writing,” as practitioners call it, is leading to an upheaval in the world of transcription. Would-be transcriptionists are shunning traditional machine shorthand-using those narrow keyboards that court reporters peck away on-and are turning instead to easier-to-learn voice writing. The number of transcriptionists enrolled in traditional court-stenography courses has dropped by half since 1992, and training schools across the U.S. are closing as voice writing takes over.