[FreeTheHostages]

Re transcripts: I was a prosecutor for 8 years and it works like this. First, some courts do allow transcripts in. Some court reporters that use real-time voice transcription only need a short time to correct it and can get accurate transcripts in by the time the jury needs them. But, in the real world, most court reporters do not have the equipment or technology to produce a complete accurate transcript that fast. But they can read back from their recordation of the sounds. (They have machines that record composite sounds in keystrokes, like dipthongs and such.) So really it's just a practical limitation. In the future, transcripts may well be available to the jury upon request.

[Freedom2specul8]

It's great to heave your input. I think I've seen those voice transcription machines used before.The court reporter had this little mask, a bit bigger than an oxygen mask, talking into it. Completely sound proof. Is that the machine you are referring to?