Court Reporters and Simultaneous Captioners
Use verbatim methods and equipment to capture, store, retrieve, and transcribe pretrial and trial proceedings or other information. Includes stenocaptioners who operate computerized stenographic captioning equipment to provide captions of live or prerecorded broadcasts for hearing-impaired viewers.
12,870 people do this job in the US. $72,420 a year.
of the working time. Estimate.
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Measured, from Anthropic's usage data (2025). Counts help on part of a task.
On the chosen pace and reliability. Estimate.
Share of the working time within reach, now to 2030
What each choice means: , , , , . Every pace starts from .
At this date and pace, models finish tasks up to 4.4 h long four times in five.
How far this has come
With GPT-4, measured in March 2023, 0% of this job's working time was within reach at . With Claude 3.7 Sonnet, measured in February 2025, 1%. With Claude Mythos Preview (early), measured in April 2026, 25%. Today's estimate: 36%.
A backcast: today's task data with the best model METR had measured by each date. It shows how fast the models have moved, not what anyone forecast at the time.
The tasks
Sorted by . 15 tasks from .
| Task | Kind | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Take notes in shorthand or use a stenotype or shorthand machine that prints letters on a paper tape.Done daily by most who do it. | 20% | 3.3 h50 min to 6.7 h | Stays with people | |
| Record verbatim proceedings of courts, legislative assemblies, committee meetings, and other proceedings, using computerized recording equipment, electronic stenograph machines, or stenomasks.Done daily by most who do it. | 17% | 3.3 h50 min to 6.7 h | 32%Half by Jan 2027 | |
| Transcribe recorded proceedings in accordance with established formats.Done daily by most who do it. AI observed on this task. | 13% | 3.3 h50 min to 1.3 work days | 25%Half by Mar 2027 | |
| Record depositions and other proceedings for attorneys.Done daily by most who do it. | 13% | 3.3 h50 min to 6.7 h | 32%Half by Jan 2027 | |
| Record symbols on computer storage media and use computer aided transcription to translate and display them as text.Done daily by most who do it. AI observed on this task. | 13% | 1.7 h25 min to 4.2 h | 57%Half by now | |
| Proofread transcripts for correct spelling of words.Done daily by most who do it. | 9% | 1.3 h25 min to 3.3 h | 77%Half by now | |
| Provide transcripts of proceedings upon request of judges, lawyers, or the public.Done more than weekly by most who do it. | 7% | 2.5 h50 min to 6.7 h | 46%Half by Oct 2026 | |
| Verify accuracy of transcripts by checking copies against original records of proceedings and accuracy of rulings by checking with judges.Done more than weekly by most who do it. | 5% | 1.7 h25 min to 5 h | 51%Half by now | |
| File and store shorthand notes of court session.Done daily by most who do it. | 2% | 25 min8 min to 50 min | 100%Half by now | |
| File a legible transcript of records of a court case with the court clerk's office.Done more than monthly by most who do it. | 0.6% | 38 min13 min to 1.7 h | 95%Half by now | |
| Log and store exhibits from court proceedings.Done daily by most who do it. | 0.6% | 25 min8 min to 1.7 h | Stays with people | |
| File exhibits.Done more than monthly by most who do it. | 0.3% | 17 min4 min to 50 min | Stays with people |
Within reach, per task: the share of the task's time whose instances are short enough for a model to finish at the chosen date, pace and reliability. Half by: the date half of that time comes within reach.
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