What are the advantages of a court reporting service over an audio recording equipment?
Are you one of those attorneys that are doubtful about hiring a court reporting service? Well, these major advantages of hiring a court reporter over relying solely on this modern recording equipment can help you come up with a more reasonable decision.
Smart attorneys understand the important role that national court reporting services play in every hearing, litigation, conference, court trial, and legal deposition. However, because most of the court reporting services are quite expensive and because of the availability of the modern audio recording equipment in some of the courtrooms in Georgia, many attorneys become hesitant as to whether it is worth to hire a court reporter or not.
If you are one of them, make sure that you check out first the different advantages of hiring a court reporting service over relying solely on this modern recording equipment before coming up with a final decision.
More accurate records
Court reporters have studied court reporting for years. They have also undergone and passed intensive training regarding how to accurately record all the essential parts of the court hearing. They are also expert when it comes to legal terms and procedures.
When there are words that are unclearly uttered by the witness or perhaps when the speaker speaks too fast, they can be able to cut through and ask the witness or speaker to speak clearly and moderately so that they can be able to take a more precise record. On the contrary, the audio recorder can't be able to do this, which leads to less accurate and less reliable record.
Two or more people speaking in chorus
Sometimes you can't avoid people speaking in chorus most especially in the case of a heated court trial. In cases like this, the court reporter can ask the court to let the involved individuals talk one at a time and to avoid talking simultaneously all at once. Unfortunately, an audio recorder can't function as such no matter how technologically advanced it is.
On time recording
Normally, the audio recorder is turned off during recess. It will only be turned on again when the proceedings are resumed. However, there are some instances that the audio recording device is still turned off even after the recess.
Needless to say, if you are relying only on the recorder to take records of the testimony, you will have no single record of the proceeding until the recorder is turned on again. This can create a great impact on your case.
However, if you hire one of the famous court reporters for your hearing, litigation, conference, court trial, and legal deposition, you don't have to worry about errors such as this.
Noise and nuances
Georgia court reporters are used to work in a noisy environment. They can still effectively work despite being surrounded by noise and nuances may it be inside or outside the courtroom. If the external noise like a fire, ambulance, or police siren gets too loud that it becomes impossible for the court reporter to hear what's being discussed inside the courtroom, he or she is allowed to interrupt the proceedings and ask the court or the parties to pause the proceedings for a few seconds or until the siren is gone. He or she can also ask the parties to reiterate what has been spoken during such time.
On the other end, the audio recording device records every single noise it can capture. So, if there are instances like this, there is no chance for the transcriber to clearly determine what was being said during the time when the siren blocked out the sound.
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