– The Supreme Court of India has been testing a system to transcribe hearings using artificial intelligence tools and natural language processing technology.
The Supreme Court and high courts in India upload judgments online, but do not have enough staff or resources to transcribe or publish oral arguments. Within two days, the CJI’s office asked the company to deploy Teres on an experimental basis in the Supreme Court, which struggles with a backlog of more than 69,500 cases as at Feb 1.
After moving back to India, Mr Mahendra asked his engineer brother Vinay Mahendra, 42, and brother-in-law Badarivishal Kinhal, 39, if they could build an AI-based live transcription tool. Local newspapers reported that senior advocate Kapil Sibal joked that as every word said in courtrooms would be recorded, “posterity will all get to know what foolish arguments we made”, which made the courtroom burst into laughter.