Legal speech‑to‑text built for the courtroom

Speech recognition software built for court reporters, legal professionals, and law firms who need unmatched accuracy across every accent, dialect, and speaker — in real time.

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Transcription trade-off that puts cases at risk

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Unreliable AI in High-Stakes Moments

Overlapping speakers, accents, and legal terminology break accuracy when it matters most.

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A court reporter workforce in crisis

Stenographers are declining. Demand is rising. Final transcripts are expected faster with fewer resources.

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Every error carries legal consequences

When the record is wrong, the costs are measured in lost cases, not just dollars.

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Law firms face a difficult choice

Expensive human court reporters with a long turnaround, or generic speech recognition that miss critical terminology.

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Unreliable AI in High-Stakes Moments

Overlapping speakers, accents, and legal terminology break accuracy when it matters most.

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A court reporter workforce in crisis

Stenographers are declining. Demand is rising. Final transcripts are expected faster with fewer resources.

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Every error carries legal consequences

When the record is wrong, the costs are measured in lost cases, not just dollars.

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Law firms face a difficult choice

Expensive human court reporters with a long turnaround, or generic speech recognition that miss critical terminology.

When every word is evidence, accuracy isn't optional.

Real-time and file-based AI transcription for the highest-stakes conversations — from courtrooms to depositions to criminal evidence.

Unbeatable legal transcription

  • Sub-second latency - transcripts appear as words are spoken

  • Accent-agnostic - consistent accuracy across dialects and non-native speakers

  • Noise-resilient - reliable in challenging audio from busy courtrooms to body cam recordings

  • 55+ languages - multilingual transcription with dialect comprehension across every language

90% accuracy with <1 second latency. The fastest most accurate on the market. 60% faster than the nearest competitor. Try it out. Right now. In real-time.

Deployment flexibility means legal technology partners meet any client data security requirement without changing providers

Real-time

AI-Assisted Court Reporting

Live draft transcripts

Generate real-time draft transcripts during live court proceedings. Court reporters get a reliable starting point to review, edit, and deliver final transcripts in hours instead of days.

At scale

Deposition & Discovery Transcription

Speaker diarization

Batch transcription of deposition libraries with speaker diarization and timestamps. Custom vocabularies capture party names and case-specific terminology, reducing costs and turnaround.

Evidence

Audio Evidence Transcription

Prosecution & Defence

Process body cam footage, paramedic calls, jail calls, interrogation recordings, and surveillance audio at scale. Accurate, reliable transcripts that hold up to scrutiny in trial proceedings.

Your data stays where your compliance demands

Speechmatics offers a secure platform with full deployment flexibility - cloud, on-premises, or on-device - so law firms and legal technology providers meet any data sovereignty requirement.

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Trust

Privacy by Design

No data logging by default. Sensitive client data - testimony, depositions, evidence recordings - stays protected. You control your legal documentation.

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Certified

SOC2 | ISO 27001 | HIPAA | GDPR

Fully compliant AI that meets the high levels of security legal organizations demand. Deployment practices align with the strictest industry regulations.

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AI transcription engineered for Legal

Speechmatics speech recognition software is built for the legal industry - so legal professionals can focus on practising law, not fixing transcripts.

Accurate

Consistent Accuracy

Industry-leading transcription accuracy across diverse accents, dialects, languages and legal terminology - even in noisy courtrooms with overlapping speakers, delivered in under a second.

Flexible

Real-Time and Batch Transcription

Live transcription with sub-second latency for court hearings and depositions, or batch processing of recorded audio files like evidence libraries and testimony archives.

Powerful

Speaker Diarization & 
Custom Dictionary

Accurately identify and label every participant — judges, attorneys, witnesses — across multi-party proceedings. Custom Dictionary ensures case-specific names and legal terms are captured correctly from the first word.

Legal speech-to-text built for the courtroom, not just the conference room.