are not to be relied upon.
In the vast majority of cases where a video (with audio) has a transcription of the audio laid over the video, the transcription has mistakes. I would say the percentage approaches 80%, and this is only from the brief, several minute excerpts that are showed on news clips.
In almost every instance, the mistake is essentially one of confirmation bias, where the transcriptor interprets a statement in a way that would be consistent with his/her organization's overall interpretation of events, and with the overall narrative being presented.
I shudder to think of what this means for court transcripts, but I haven't seen an egregious example of a court transcript mistake yet, so perhaps they are more reliable than most, which, of course, they should be.
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