Record verbatim proceedings of courts, legislative assemblies, committee meetings, and other proceedings, using computerized recording equipment, electronic stenograph machines, or stenomasks.

“Record verbatim proceedings of courts, legislative assemblies, committee meetings, and other proceedings, using computerized recording equipment, electronic stenograph machines, or stenomasks.” is a core task performed by Court Reporters and Simultaneous Captioners. Among the occupation's 14 rated tasks, workers place it 14th by importance (#1 most important). About 94% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Record information about legal matters. in Documenting/Recording Information

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E1. Direct exposure — a language model could plausibly cut the time to do this task by at least half.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 1.00. Automation potential label: T3.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Proofread transcripts for correct spelling of words. · importance 4.8
• Ask speakers to clarify inaudible statements. · importance 4.8
• Take notes in shorthand or use a stenotype or shorthand machine that prints letters on a paper tape. · importance 4.8
• Record symbols on computer storage media and use computer aided transcription to translate and display them as text. · importance 4.8
• Provide transcripts of proceedings upon request of judges, lawyers, or the public. · importance 4.8
• Transcribe recorded proceedings in accordance with established formats. · importance 4.8
• Log and store exhibits from court proceedings. · importance 4.8
• File a legible transcript of records of a court case with the court clerk's office. · importance 4.7
• File and store shorthand notes of court session. · importance 4.7
• Type court orders for judges. · importance 4.7
• Respond to requests during court sessions to read portions of the proceedings already recorded. · importance 4.5
• Verify accuracy of transcripts by checking copies against original records of proceedings and accuracy of rulings by checking with judges. · importance 4.5
• Record depositions and other proceedings for attorneys. · importance 4.2

See all tasks on the Court Reporters and Simultaneous Captioners page.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

@misc{singulariki-task-8655,
  title  = {Record verbatim proceedings of courts, legislative assemblies, committee meetings, and other proceedings, using computerized recording equipment, electronic stenograph machines, or stenomasks.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-8655}
}