Former DOJ IG; Asst US Attorney, SDNY, has some advise about transcripts

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Transcripts can be doctored and sanitized. There is a reason judges generally instruct juries that tape recordings are the evidence and transcripts are only guides to aid understanding of the recordings. Any recordings that exist must be produced.

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1. While faking a tape recording is currently difficult it isn't impossible

and before too long it will be possible for anyone with a computer and the right software.

We can clone veggies, livestock and pets—so why not our voices?

Lyrebird—a Montreal-based start-up that launched in 2017—built its corporate mission around that very question. Its goal: Use artificial intelligence to “create the most realistic artificial voices in the world.” In other words, if you feed Lyrebird’s software a snippet of audio spoken by someone, it can then say whatever you want—in the same voice.

https://www.wired.com/brandlab/2018/10/lyrebird-uses-ai-find-artificial-voice/