At some point in the not-to-distant future, I can imagine a Siri-like device which would automatically generate the written transcripts. Of course we’re not quite there yet with trusting voice recognition technologies like Siri at that level. Sometimes Siri really botches up and comes up with the oddest word choices.
I wondered about that when watching “the People vs. OJ Simpson”. All the change we’ve seen from no smoking in offices to the impact of the internet yet the court reporter still uses a stenotype machine today. If voice recognition hasn’t matured to the point where it is 100% accurate they can always feed the output from a jillion courtrooms to a big center in Bangalore where thousands of Indian analysts would review and correct the record (applying their perfect English-speaking skills of course ;-))