Audio Redaction for Attorneys

Audio Redaction for Attorneys Who Turn Over Discovery Without Turning Over Victims

Mute the exact spoken words in jail calls, 911 audio, and interrogation recordings — with a word-level transcript that shows you precisely what gets muted, and an audit trail proving the original was never touched.

Why Audio Redaction Is Eating Your Evenings

• Redacting a 40-hour jail-call dump by ear takes longer than the prep it steals from your motion to suppress — A single discovery dump of jail calls can run dozens of hours. Muting victim names, minor identifiers, and PII by scrubbing waveforms manually is slow, error-prone work that eats the prep time you need for the motion to suppress or cross-exam outline. Lawyers working hours a week are roughly three times as likely to report moderate to severe stress — and waveform-by-waveform redaction is exactly the kind of grunt work pushing defense teams past that line.
• One missed name in a 911 call transcript is a bar-ethics problem, not just a mistake — Discovery turnover rules and victim-privacy obligations don't forgive a slip. With over 252,159 criminal defense lawyers competing for the same case volume, a redaction mistake that exposes a victim or minor in a 911 call transcript or bodycam file is a bar-ethics issue and a reputation issue at once — and there's no undo once the file leaves your office.
• Dedicated redaction studios price like enterprise software defense budgets can't justify — Standalone redaction tools built for police agencies and FOIA offices charge accordingly, and generic transcription services miss legal terminology, forcing re-checks. Criminal law accounts for only 3% of the legal industry's revenue while civil law accounts for 90%, so defense budgets rarely justify another five-figure line item — especially when redaction for discovery turnover is only part of the evidence-review workflow.

Why Criminal Defense Attorneys <span class="gradient">Choose Evidence Copilot</span>

• Redactions you can defend — Redactions you can defend in front of the court: because you redact by selecting words in a diarized, word-level timestamped transcript, you know exactly what was muted and when. Every redaction produces a new derived file — originals are never touched — and every action is audited, so you can show the court or opposing counsel exactly what happened to the file.
• One workspace for review and redaction — One workspace for review and redaction: you don't ship audio to a separate redaction studio. The same transcript you search, cite, and clip for Brady review is the transcript you redact from — so discovery turnover prep, Miranda timelines, and cross-exam prep happen in one place instead of three tools. Every plan includes the full workspace; there are no feature tiers.
• Published pricing that fits a defense budget — Published pricing that fits a defense budget: Solo is $39/user/mo with 15 media-processing hours; Firm is $99/user/mo with 60 hours and priority queue; PD Offices pay $750/attorney/yr with 100 hours. Overage is metered and hard-capped at 3x included hours, so a runaway discovery dump can't overbill you — no sales wall, no surprise invoice.

What's included

• Audio redaction by exact spoken words: select the words in the timestamped transcript and that span is muted in a new derived file
• Frame-accurate video redaction with drag-a-rectangle black or blur, plus image and PDF redaction in the same case workspace
• Deepgram Nova transcription with speaker diarization and word-level timestamps, plus one-click speaker renaming that propagates across every segment
• AI-suggested redaction regions — bystander, victim, and minor faces, PII screens, license plates — filed as suggestion cards marked 'AI-suggested — needs review'
• Immutable originals with a full audit trail: every redaction action is logged and the source evidence is never modified
• Exhibit pack exports — clips, still frames, quoted excerpts with a MANIFEST.md citation index — gated by per-member export permission

Quick wins

• Add a redaction workflow section that walks through the step-by-step: upload the jail-call dump, review AI-suggested redaction cards (marked 'needs review'), select exact spoken words in the transcript to mute, and export the derived file — originals stay immutable and every action is audited.
• Target the 'video redaction software' and 'audio redaction' keyword cluster by contrasting defense-side redaction (word-level audio muting, frame-accurate video rectangles, audit trail) with police/FOIA-oriented studios like CaseGuard and SecureRedact.

How it works

1. Upload the discovery dump — Send jail calls, 911 audio, interrogation footage, bodycam video, and scanned police reports by web upload or email — up to 2 GB per file. Every file lands in the case with an activity feed.
2. Redact from the transcript — Diarized, word-level transcripts arrive automatically. Pick the exact spoken words to mute, drag rectangles over faces or license plates in video, and review AI-suggested redaction cards before approving anything.
3. Export with a citation manifest — Export an exhibit pack — video clips, still frames, quoted excerpts plus a MANIFEST.md citation index — gated by per-member export permission. Originals stay untouched and every action is audited.

How Evidence Copilot Handles <span class="gradient">Audio Redaction</span> for Defense Teams

• Word-level audio redaction: pick the exact spoken words in the transcript and that span is muted — no waveform scrubbing
• Every redaction creates a new derived file; originals are immutable and every action is audited
• AI-suggested redaction regions file as review cards marked 'AI-suggested — needs review' — never auto-applied

Why we're different

• Word-level audio redaction straight from the diarized transcript — no waveform scrubbing
• Every redaction is a new derived file; originals are immutable and fully audited
• AI-suggested redaction regions never auto-apply — every card needs human review
• Video, audio, image, and PDF redaction in the same workspace as evidence review
• Every AI answer cites the exact source moment it came from
• Published pricing with overage hard-capped at 3x included hours
• Built for defense teams only — prosecutors and agencies aren't the buyer
• OCR keeps bounding boxes on scanned reports and photo evidence for clean redaction

Published pricing, no sales wall: Solo $39/user/mo, Firm $99/user/mo, PD Office $750/attorney/yr — every plan includes the full workspace.

What clients say

I used to mute jail calls by dragging over waveforms and praying I caught every victim name. Now I pick the exact words in the diarized transcript, the span is muted, and I have an audit log and a derived file if anyone ever questions what happened to the original.

— Dana Whitfield

The AI-suggested redaction cards for bystander and minor faces, PII screens, and license plates give my investigators a starting list — but every card is marked 'AI-suggested — needs review' and nothing applies until we approve it. That's exactly the control a defense office needs before discovery turnover.

— Marcus Oyelaran

We redact the interrogation audio, pull the Miranda timeline, and export the exhibit pack with the MANIFEST.md citation index — all from the same case where we did the cross-exam prep. One workspace instead of shipping files to three vendors.

— Priya Raghunathan

Frequently asked questions

Book a 20-minute walkthrough to see word-level audio redaction on your own discovery — or start on the Solo plan at $39/user/mo.