Identify two main outputs a digital court reporter provides to the court.

• A. Official certified transcript and live/realtime captioning; rough draft transcripts for review.
• B. Audio only and video clips.
• C. Legal opinions and case summaries.
• D. Audio transcripts and annotated verdicts.

Answer: (A)

The essential thing a digital court reporter provides is a precise, official record of what happened in court. The two main outputs are an official certified transcript, which becomes the permanent, authoritative document of the proceedings, and live or realtime captioning, which shows the spoken words as text during the hearing to aid accessibility and understanding for attendees who need text in real time. Rough draft transcripts may be produced during the editing process, but they are intermediate and not the final, official outputs the court relies on.

The other options miss the core deliverables: audio-only or video clips don’t capture the official written record; legal opinions and case summaries are produced by legal professionals, not by the court reporter; and while audio transcripts can exist, the standard outputs are the certified transcript and live captioning, not annotated verdicts, which are the judge’s or attorney’s work rather than the reporter’s primary products.