A high-profile sexual harassment trial against the judiciary has shown at least one challenge with remote proceedings: making sure the court reporter can catch what’s being said.

Over the span of more than two weeks, U.S. District Judge William Young sat in a Boston courtroom, with his court reporter, to preside over former federal public defender Caryn Strickland’s lawsuit against the judiciary. But Strickland’s lawyers, the federal government’s attorneys and witnesses were hundreds of miles away in a North Carolina courthouse.