Legal transcription with timestamps you can actually cite
Depositions, hearings, client interviews — transcribed in minutes, speaker-labelled, fully searchable, and processed on infrastructure we own. Privilege intact.
The transcript is the raw material of the practice
A litigator's day rarely looks like Suits. It looks like a Tuesday afternoon spent reading a 400-page deposition for the one Q&A that contradicts a witness's later statement. Transcripts are the raw material of the practice — and getting them fast, accurately, and with timestamps you can cite is the difference between billing prep time and burning it.
Transcrify produces deposition-grade transcripts in minutes, not days. Speakers are labelled (Counsel, Witness, Court Reporter), every line is timestamped, and the Q&A formatting comes through clean enough to drop into a brief. The text is fully searchable, so when opposing counsel cites "page 47, line 12," you can verify it immediately instead of flipping through a binder.
For hearings, client interviews, internal investigations, and arbitration recordings, the same engine works. And because we don't ship audio to outside providers, attorney–client privilege isn't compromised by the transcription pipeline.
Built for the precision the practice demands
Where every word might end up cross-examined, the transcript needs to be more than "good enough."
Legal vocabulary precision
Statutes, case-law shorthand, Latin terms, and common procedural language transcribed without mangling.
Paragraph-level timestamps
Every paragraph carries a precise timestamp — citeable in your prep notes, exportable into your case management software.
Role-aware speaker labels
"Counsel," "Witness," "Court Reporter," "Judge" — relabel once and the change applies through the entire document.
Q&A formatting out of the box
Question/Answer turn-taking detected and formatted automatically. Drop straight into a brief.
Bulk processing for big cases
Upload a folder of 40 witness recordings. Get them all back transcribed by morning.
Privileged audio stays in-house
Audio never leaves Transcrify's infrastructure. No third-party transcription APIs. On-premise deployment available for firms with the strictest posture.
From recording to brief in one afternoon
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Receive the recording
End of day, opposing counsel sends over the audio of yesterday's deposition — 90 minutes long.
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Upload
Drop the MP3 into Transcrify. Grab coffee.
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Get a timestamped Q&A
Eight minutes later, a fully formatted transcript with Counsel/Witness labels and timestamps every paragraph.
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Pull the quotes
Search "duty of care" across the transcript. Copy the three relevant exchanges with their timestamps. Paste into the draft brief — done before the partner asks.
How a deposition becomes a working transcript
Receive the recording
Audio from a deposition, court hearing, or client interview — any standard format, no conversion needed.
AI transcribes
Q&A formatting, role-aware speaker labels (Counsel / Witness / Reporter), and paragraph-level timestamps applied automatically.
Search, quote, brief
Pull the line you need with a keyword search. Copy with timestamps. Drop into your draft.
Where firms put it to work
From depositions to dispute resolution — wherever speech becomes evidence.
Depositions
Fast working transcripts for prep — searchable, quotable, ready before the next morning's strategy session.
Court proceedings
Hearings, arbitration, tribunal sessions — recorded and transcribed for internal review and case-file completeness.
Witness statements
Field-recorded interviews turned into structured statements ready for cross-checking against the case file.
Attorney dictation
Brief drafts, memos, and correspondence dictated on the commute home and back as text by morning.
Client meetings
Confidential client conversations captured for accurate billing and follow-through on commitments.
Internal investigations
HR interviews and compliance reviews transcribed in-house — nothing leaves your firewall.
How one litigation firm cut £18k a year in transcription spend
"We used to wait three days and pay £600 for an outsourced transcript. Now I get one in 12 minutes and bill the time I would have lost waiting."
Marcus's firm runs roughly 120 depositions a year. The standard play was outsourcing transcription to a court reporter service: turnaround was two to three business days, accuracy was very high, and the bill landed at around £150 per deposition hour.
They piloted Transcrify on a single complex commercial case — 14 depositions over three months. Associates ran the recordings through Transcrify the same evening and used the searchable text for cross-examination prep the next morning. Official certified transcripts still came from the court reporter, but working copies were in their hands within minutes.
Twelve months later the firm has cut official transcription requests by roughly 60%, only commissioning certified transcripts for material that's actually filed with the court. The rest of the prep work happens against Transcrify outputs, in-house, behind their own firewall.
What firms ask before they switch
Is the output admissible in court?
How does Q&A formatting work?
How precise are the timestamps?
Can multiple attorneys work the same transcript?
What about confidentiality and privilege?
Run your next deposition through Transcrify
Upload an old recording you already have a certified transcript for. Compare them. We'll wait.