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The authors of a 2022 study on UK Supreme Court hearings report that adapting a generic speech model can avoid critical errors specific to legal jargon and terminology used in British courts.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“avoid critical errors that are specific of the legal jargon and terminology commonly used in British courts”
Better Transcription of UK Supreme Court Hearings, Hadeel Saadany et al., arXiv (Cornell University), 2022, Abstract.
Open the original- What it measures
- The study adapts an off-the-shelf speech model for British court hearings, which have long recordings and many speakers. It shows that generic models can fail on legal terms, not only on ordinary words.
- What it does not show
- A preprint on British courtroom audio. The abstract does not report a single error rate for legal terms, so it cannot tell you how often a US dictation tool makes these errors.