"Artificial intelligence, meet the U.S. Supreme Court. It's an institution steeped in tradition and resistant to any quick changes in the way it does things. But like it or not, the justices are about to see artificially created versions of themselves, essentially avatars, speaking words that they actually did speak in court but that were not heard contemporaneously by anyone except the people in the courtroom."
"The site sought to provide audio of the court's oral arguments and opinion announcements in every case decided by the Supreme Court dating back to 1955 when the court began taping its courtroom proceedings. Professor Goldman's Oyez project was a huge deal when it debuted because until the early 1990s, the public had no idea the court had been taping its courtroom sessions. And the process for preserving the tapes was so helter-skelter that many of those recordings were lost for all time."
"It wasn't until 2020 when COVID-19 shut down the country that the court was essentially forced to allow every oral argument to be broadcast live, with the justices linked by phone line and the public able to listen in. And after the pandemic, the justices, who had long resisted regular audio broadcast of their arguments, without fanfare, left the pandemic system in place."
Artificially created avatars will reproduce Supreme Court justices' spoken words that were audible only to courtroom attendees. Jerry Goldman launched Oyez in 1996 to provide audio of every Supreme Court oral argument and opinion announcement dating back to 1955. Many early courtroom recordings were lost because preservation was inconsistent and the public largely did not know taping occurred until the early 1990s. Historically, audio access arrived months after cases, typically at the next term's start. The COVID-19 pandemic prompted live broadcasting of oral arguments beginning in 2020, and the court retained that system after the pandemic, leaving decision announcements still unavailable on the same day.
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