Alexander Graham Bell's vision of automated speech recognition, conceived in the 1870s, is now reality.  You can talk to your house, automobile, computer, and toys.  Voice integration for legal research and other applications will experience tremendous growth for the foreseeable future.

The National Verbatim Reporters Association is the authority in speech recognition for the production of court transcripts in the American courts.

Speech recognition for court reporting is experiencing phenomenal growth in Europe, a trend which is also being realized in the U.S.  "Voice Writer" court reporters typically graduate in well under 24 months, and career-changers can become certified in under 12 months.  The national shortage of court reporters can be wiped out in under 5 years by augmenting states' existing base of stenotype reporters with voice reporters.

The pages below touch upon the history of voice writing in U.S. courts, the current state of this art, and how to leverage the technology's application in the making of the record.

Please visit NVRA, http://www.nvra.org, for more information.