Taking the minutes of a meeting

Transcription is settled and the summary is close behind, so nobody needs to write down what was said. The minute is not a transcript. It records what was decided, in whose presence, and it is approved at the next meeting by the people who were there, which makes it an act of attestation rather than a piece of writing. Boards, councils, works councils and courts keep human minute takers for that reason, and where the law prescribes a register, a machine cannot sign it. The contest is over the middle ground: the ordinary work meeting, where the automatic recap is now good enough that no one volunteers.