readout

As Volodymyr Zelensky has worked the phone, drumming up support for Ukraine from the world, we have become familiar with the term readout.  This is the official text record of a telephone conversation between two political leaders or others in the realm of foreign affairs.  Naturally such summaries of the conversation have to be done with great care.  Sometimes each person involved does their own readout and then the world at large can compare. The US is inclined to produce its own readouts as the one and only version of the conversation that they are prepared to endorse.

The original sense of readout was the output from a computer or digital device, the information being transferred to a more readable or accessible form.  I suppose this links it to the telephone context where the information is transferred to a form more easily read and circulated than a tape or digital recording of the conversation.