The popular media often picks up tales from speech recognition technology firms of how court reporting will be an obsolete profession any day now.
Prospective students are worried about whether starting court reporting school is a good idea.
Existing students are wondering whether to stay. I attended ASAT '95 in San Francisco the first week of April. In other words, making a computer talk. This isn't of much interest to the court reporting profession, where the objective is to turn speech to print rather than vice-versa. Obviously, this isn't the way we talk.