New Delhi: For the first time, the Supreme Court on Tuesday began using technology powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) and ‘Natural Language Processing’ to provide live transcription of its hearings.
The experimental live transcription has been launched for now only in the courtroom of Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud. The CJI is currently heading a five-judge constitution bench hearing a case related to the Maharashtra political crisis.
Announcing the initiative, CJI Chandrachud said, “We will see how it works, especially in Constitution Bench cases, because then we will have a permanent record of the arguments. Of course, this would help judges and lawyers.” But it will also help our law colleges. They can analyze how cases are argued… It is a great resource.’
A screen displaying the live transcription of the court proceedings, which the lawyers face, has been placed in Court Room No. 1. The Supreme Court also intends to publish transcripts of oral arguments on its website. This service is being provided by cylindrical, which has been providing similar services during the arbitration proceedings. Recently, it was also provided transcription services during Delhi Arbitration Weekend Held from 17 to 19 February, and CJI Chandrachud delivered the keynote address.
Explaining the process, CJI Chandrachud said, “If there are two or more voices at the same time that causes a slight problem. But they have staff who will clear the errors by evening.”
“He suggested that during the day, the lawyer would get the link so that the lawyer could see it. By the evening, he would clean up the entire transcript and give it to us,” he said.
Indira Jaising asked for audio transcript
Supreme Court last month Said The suggestions made by senior advocate Indira Jaising will be taken into account for the court to set up a mechanism for live streaming of the court proceedings.
he built Three Top tips. Firstly, he demanded that a link to the live streaming of the hearing may be made available on the cause list for ease of access. Secondly, he suggested that in addition to the Constitution Bench hearings, which are currently being live streamed, provision could be made for live streaming of other proceedings involving important matters. Third, he offered to make an audio transcript of the submissions before the court.
Supreme Court also did allowed Jaising to submit a comprehensive note with his suggestions to the Secretary General of the Supreme Court “so that they may be taken into account while working out the modalities of live streaming”.
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