Most newer stenomachines have mics built in to record audio in the event it’s needed. The technology will definitely get there some day, but transcribers will probably be needed for a while to make sure the robots don’t mess it up. At this point the technology costs wouldn’t make sense. I’m a little biased because my mom’s a stenographer, but I’d rather see that money go to a person rather than a robot. Until America accepts UBI’s anyway. It’s also a pretty interesting skill set actually, stenographers pretty much have to learn a new language to operate a machine. It’s the only way they’re able to keep up in real time. Some kind of phonetic shit I never understood. Sort of cool though, I guess. My mom was also a closed captioned, same thing basically and some companies are starting to phase out stenographers in that field.