Revolutionizing Courtrooms: FTR RealTime AI
For The Record has expanded the FTR RealTime AI software capabilities for recording and transcribing court proceedings. RealTime provides all participants instant access to court transcriptions, although not official ones, synchronized to audio/video recordings. All parties can quickly clarify issues and defendants get records for defense when court reporters are not available.
For The Record has expanded the capabilities of its AI-powered FTR RealTime software for recording and transcribing court proceedings. RealTime provides all participants with instant access to court transcriptions, although they are not official, to quickly clarify issues.
A court reporter uses a typewriter-like machine called a stenotype to record official transcripts of trial proceedings at up to 375 words per minute. They are trained to handle the special terminology used in courts and provide official transcripts that can be used by all parties for legal defense and prosecution of defendants. The service is limited by the number of trained court reporters and the budgets of the courts. Smaller cities might not have the money to have court reporters present at every trial, and larger cities might not be able to find enough reporters.
FTR RealTime addresses these issues with automated, AI-powered recordings and transcriptions. The artificial intelligence-powered software is available around-the-clock and cheaper than court reporters, who can charge up to $4,000 per day. Naturally, there has been pushback from court reporters against using AI transcription software.
RealTime uses natural language processing to isolate the speech of all speakers, even when spoken simultaneously, from the background noise to output transcripts that are 95% accurate and synchronized with audio and video recordings. All parties can quickly clarify legal issues during , and deand defendantset records for defense when court reportreporters,arevailable.
One of the new features is auto-highlighting of significant events, allowing users to quickly jump to critical moments to review what was said. This is a must-have for lengthy trials that take many months or years, such as the O.J. Simpson criminal trial.
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Two additional features are a case index and an advanced case search. Both allow lawyers and judges to quickly find prior trials and review important proceeding points when switching between cases during the week. A new annotation feature allows users to add case references as well as proceeding start and stop times. An upcoming release will add the ability to add custom, private notes to the transcripts.
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