Legal Transcription

Client intake calls, witness interviews, internal case meetings, hearing recordings, and recorded dictation all follow the same workflow. A ten-minute call and a three-hour hearing are separate jobs, so a matter can be worked through piece by piece without waiting for the longest file before the first transcript is usable.

Yes. With speaker separation enabled, each turn is attributed, so an interviewer and a witness do not merge into a single voice. Labels can be renamed to a name, a role, or a party in the editor, which matters when the transcript is quoted in a file note or disclosed to another side.

No. Legal Transcription produces a draft for review, not a certified or admissible record. The person who knows the matter must check names, dates, and quoted words against the recording before the text is relied on. Where a court or a rule requires a certified transcript, a qualified reporter still prepares and certifies it.

Uploaded audio is passed to the speech recognition provider identified in the privacy notice and is not kept by Dictawave after the job finishes. A firm still needs to decide whether a given recording may leave its own systems at all; a short excerpt can be used to test the workflow before a full privileged interview is submitted.

Each passage carries the time it occurs in the recording, so a quotation can be traced back to the moment it was said. That is useful when checking a date or a name, and it gives a reviewer a precise reference to note in a file. A trimmed upload produces timestamps relative to the trimmed file, which should be noted.

MP3, M4A, WAV, AAC, WMA, OGG, and common video containers are accepted, and a hosted recording can be added as a link. Telephone recordings, handheld recorder files, and video of a hearing are all within reach; a proprietary format from a court recording system has to be exported first.

A single upload can be up to 100MB, with speech up to three hours, and more than one job can run in parallel. A busy matter is therefore handled by splitting recordings along natural boundaries, submitting them together, and reviewing the transcripts as they return rather than in one long batch.

Plain text exports cleanly into a word processor, a case management system, or a shared drive, and speaker labels and timestamps travel with it. SRT is available when a recording will be published with captions. One transcription pass can therefore serve both the written record and a captioned version of the same audio.