Draft The Record

DraftTheRecord: AI-Powered Court Reporting and Legal Transcription

DraftTheRecord is an AI-powered court reporting and transcription platform designed for court reporters, transcriptionists, scopists, and legal teams. It captures remote, in-person, and offline legal proceedings, producing live transcripts with speaker identification and highly accurate AI-generated rough drafts.

The platform combines speech recognition, speaker diarization, legal formatting, and synchronized audio to help legal professionals create reliable transcripts faster while maintaining control over formatting, punctuation, speaker labels, and transcript delivery.

Key Features

• Remote, In-Person, and Offline Capture: Records and transcribes proceedings conducted through Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Webex, and Google Meet, as well as multi-channel in-person and fully offline sessions.

• Live Transcription: Produces an editable real-time transcript while the proceeding is taking place.

• Automatic Speaker Identification: Identifies speakers by name and distinguishes between similar voices, interruptions, overlapping speech, and cross-talk.

• Synchronized Audio and Readback: Connects transcript text with the corresponding audio, allowing court reporters to quickly locate and replay specific sections during readback requests.

• AI-Generated Rough Drafts: Generates rough transcripts with a reported accuracy of up to 98.5%, including proceedings with accents, poor audio quality, interpreters, interruptions, and similar-sounding speakers.

• Custom Legal Formatting: Supports customized punctuation, margins, spacing, parentheticals, examination formatting, cover pages, and other preferences used by court reporters and legal transcription teams.

• Real-Time Transcript Sharing: Creates secure links that allow attorneys and clients to follow the transcript live from their devices. Access can be revoked for individual participants or everyone at once.

• Multiple Export Formats: Exports transcripts in Word, TXT, RTF, WordPerfect, PDF, and CAT-compatible formats.

• Privacy and Security Controls: Protects customer information using encryption in transit and at rest, credential controls, and restricted personnel access. DraftTheRecord states that customer data is not used to train its AI models.

Use Cases

• Court Reporting: Helps court reporters capture depositions, hearings, trials, and other legal proceedings with real-time transcripts and synchronized audio.

• Legal Transcription: Gives transcriptionists an AI-generated starting draft that can be reviewed, corrected, and converted into a certified transcript.

• Remote Depositions and Hearings: Captures proceedings conducted through major video-conferencing platforms while identifying speakers and generating live transcripts.

• In-Person Proceedings: Supports multi-channel audio recording and transcription for participants located in the same room.

• Offline and Sensitive Proceedings: Enables audio capture and transcription without relying on a stable internet connection.

• Live Attorney Access: Allows attorneys and clients to securely follow proceedings through a real-time transcript link.

• Transcript Formatting and Delivery: Automates legal formatting, speaker labels, cover pages, parentheticals, and final transcript exports.

Operational Impact

• Up to 98.5% reported accuracy for AI-generated rough drafts.

• Helps transcriptionists produce certified transcripts up to twice as fast.

• Reduces time spent manually identifying speakers and formatting legal transcripts.

• Supports difficult audio conditions, including accents, cross-talk, interruptions, quiet speech, and interpreters.

• Provides immediate access to searchable transcripts and synchronized audio during proceedings.

Getting Started

Website: https://www.drafttherecord.com/

DraftTheRecord helps court reporting and transcription professionals transform complex legal audio into structured, speaker-aware, and professionally formatted transcripts, whether proceedings take place remotely, in person, or offline.