09/10/2026
Our local courthouse has been using Liberty Audiorecording instead of Court Reporters. Most judges turn it off when we are privately hired to report in their courtroom. But one judge records everything!
I reported and included every false start, every little eh-ah-oh, everything I said, and a very verbatim record of the Court, too.
We know our equipment captures more than theirs does, but I purchased the Liberty Audio anyway, just curious to hear what it missed. I paid, they took my money, my transcript has gone out, but still no CD (really?) from them has arrived.
I encourage all CSRs to stroke in what you’ve said and not use “Reporter Clarification”; our words are more important now than they’ve ever been. Our Cert Page now includes a clause denouncing any other transcript as a “rough draft” if our live CSR created the official record while Liberty was running (Clerks do love the backup).
Anyone can buy the audio, but whose transcript will prevail? Maybe Liberty has a repository into which I should upload my Original, or maybe the A.I. bots are already in there running Dragon and selling “copies”!
