The Supreme Court said it would leverage artificial intelligence (AI) tools and applications, including transcription technology, to help court stenographers do their job.
Justice Alexander Jesmund said yesterday.
Gesmundo said courts across the country have struggled to find new stenographers for the past decade.
He emphasized the importance of the work of stenographers, pointing out that their workload would increase as more lawsuits were filed.
Mr Gesmundo said a shortage of stenographers combined with an “overwhelming” number of stenographers has led to delays in filing stenographers and, as a result, delays in resolving cases.
“These delays not only affect the record of our courts, but ultimately, these delays affect people’s trust in justice and the effective and efficient administration of the justice they seek. It also affects their confidence in their abilities,” Jesmundo told the court.The Philippine Stenographer Association at the national convention on Wednesday.
To solve this problem, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court said the 2022-2017 Judicial Innovation Strategic Plan (SPJI) will allow the SC to invest in AI not only in courtroom operations but also in stenographic operations.
“You may have seen the growing popularity of AI tools on social media, but there has been at least some controversy. AI applications that generate art or photorealistic images based on input prompts. There are compelling human-like chatbots like ChatGPT that answer questions and generate sentences in whatever style you prefer, according to your goals,” said Gesmundo.
He said AI could help courts meet the real-time challenges of stenography, and stenographers could take advantage of AI-enabled voice-to-text transcription services to work more efficiently and effectively. I added that you can.
“We are researching and trying to make use of the same tools here. After these tools generate automated transcripts, stenographers can make corrections and enhancements. It will be fed back into our system and it will be constantly improved,” said the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
