For nearly a decade, the Ducker Report1 that was published by the National Court Reporters Association (NCRA) has been the most referenced and debated study regarding court reporters and their job market. Though the NCRA commissioned the report with the mission to present facts to help promote marketing, recruitment, and advocacy for stenographic court reporting, the findings that the industry would soon be facing an overwhelming shortage of stenographic reporters quickly devolved into a human vs technology discussion. On one side, there are digital reporting and speech-to-text supporters that used the findings to influence the market into adopting technology as