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AuTrans for Law Firms and In-House Legal Teams

Court proceedings, client interviews, arbitration and tribunal hearings turned into a speaker-labelled written record — including the parts conducted in Pidgin, Yoruba, Hausa or Igbo.

A managing partner, a practice head or a head of legal, spending against a practice budget rather than a single matter. The person who loses the evenings to transcription is a junior associate; the person who signs is watching write-offs, and will settle privilege and retention before they ever get to features.

What this looks like today

  • Court proceedings, client interviews and arbitration sessions are recorded and then sit untranscribed, because nobody in the firm has the days it would take
  • Transcription lands on a junior associate's evenings — the most expensive way in the building to produce a document, and the least likely to be billed to anyone
  • Matters conducted partly in Pidgin, Yoruba, Hausa or Igbo get summarised in English by whoever was in the room, so the words a witness actually used are gone
  • Human transcription is quoted per audio minute against a matter budget agreed before anyone knew how many hours of recording there would be
  • Sending client audio to an outside typist is a confidentiality conversation no partner wants to have with the client

What changes

  • Hearings and interviews come back with speakers separated, so counsel, witness and bench stay distinguishable instead of collapsing into one block of text
  • Every line is linked to its moment in the audio, so checking what a witness actually said is a click rather than a scrub through the recording
  • The transcript is fully editable with the audio playing alongside it, and your correction is what gets saved
  • Matters conducted in Pidgin, Yoruba, Hausa or Igbo are transcribed in the language they were conducted in, including an answer that switches into English halfway through
  • Summaries, decisions and key quotes are pulled out, so a partner gets the shape of a long case conference without reading all of it
  • A hearing recorded in the morning is a searchable record the same day, so preparation stops queueing behind typing
  • Transcripts export to DOCX or PDF with timestamps included, so they drop straight into a brief, a chronology or the matter file

Procurement, data and contracts

  • Audio is never used to train AI models, on any plan. Text corrections improve the product only where an account has explicitly opted in — a firm's account can have that off entirely, and we will confirm it in the agreement
  • Recordings and transcripts can be deleted on request, and deletion takes the derived data with it rather than just the audio file. If your policy sets a retention window for a matter type, tell us the window and it goes into the agreement
  • A share link can be issued view-only, so a client or co-counsel reads a transcript without an account and without the ability to alter it
  • We will sign your data processing agreement and complete your outside-counsel or vendor questionnaire — send them to us rather than asking whether we have our own
  • Invoiced annually against a purchase order, in Naira, by a CAC-registered Nigerian company — no card, no foreign vendor onboarding, and no per-seat licence to reconcile at renewal
  • Hour allowances are set on your account directly, so a trial period or a heavy arbitration does not require a plan change

Frequently asked questions

Can an AuTrans transcript stand as the official court record?

No, and we would not want it presented as one. It is a working transcript for preparation, review and the matter file — not a certified record from your jurisdiction's designated court reporting process, and where an official transcript is legally required that process still applies. What changes is the audio that never gets an official transcript at all: client interviews, internal case conferences, arbitration sessions and tribunal hearings.

Our client interviews are partly in Pidgin or Yoruba. What comes back?

A transcript in the languages actually spoken. Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo and Nigerian Pidgin are handled directly alongside Nigerian-accented English, and an interview where counsel asks in English and the client answers in Pidgin is one recording rather than two jobs. If someone on the matter does not read the language, you can also produce a version translated into a single language — keep the original alongside it, because the original is the one that counts if the words are ever disputed.

How do we satisfy ourselves that privileged material is safe here?

Recordings and transcripts are private to your account, and nothing leaves it unless someone on your side deliberately creates a share link, which can be issued view-only. Audio is never used to train AI models, on any plan. Text corrections can be used to improve the product only where an account has explicitly opted in, and a firm's account can have that off from the day it is created. If your policy requires deletion within a defined window, tell us the window. All of it goes into the agreement rather than staying a claim on a marketing page.

Is there a price list for a firm?

No, and that is deliberate rather than evasive. We quote against your actual volume — roughly how many hours of audio a year across the practice — and invoice annually against a purchase order, in Naira. There is no per-seat licence, so a trainee and a senior partner cost the same to add, and there is no card on file for anyone in finance to keep justifying.

Can we test it on our own recordings before committing budget?

Yes, and you should — your own matters, your own recording conditions, your own languages, before anyone raises a purchase order. The free plan includes 30 minutes of transcription every month, which refills, and that is enough to hear how it handles a real hearing recording. If a live privileged matter is not the test you want to start with, use an internal case conference instead, and once the firm is satisfied we will arrange a larger trial across the practice.

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Tell us your volume and we'll quote

Roughly how many hours of audio a year, and in which languages. We price against that rather than a published tier. You can also start on the free plan first and run your own recordings through it before anyone raises a purchase order.

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