Legal transcription that stays on your machine
Client conversations, witness interviews, case discussions: the recordings a legal practice makes are confidential by default, and often privileged. The convenient way to transcribe them, uploading the audio to a transcription service, quietly puts a third party in the middle of a conversation that was supposed to stay between you and your client.
talat is software that does the transcription on your own machine, so the recording is never sent anywhere. It is the difference between a transcript that stays in your office and one that also lives on a vendor’s servers.
A third party in the chain is the risk.
The moment a privileged recording is handed to a cloud service, its confidentiality depends on that vendor: their access controls, their retention, their jurisdiction, and whether they treat your file as data to learn from. That is a lot of trust to place in a transcription tool, and a lot of surface you would have to account for if the handling of a recording were ever questioned.
Because talat processes everything locally, there is no vendor in the chain to trust. The audio, the transcript, and the summary stay on the machine, which keeps the confidentiality where it belongs: with you.
Attributed transcripts, kept in-house.
talat records from your microphone and your computer’s audio, tells the speakers apart, and labels each turn, so a client meeting or a multi-party call reads as a proper transcript rather than a wall of text. When you stop, a local AI writes a summary and pulls out the follow-ups, and everything is searchable in a local library. It runs on macOS and Windows and works offline.
Recordings you already hold can be imported and transcribed the same way, without any of it going online; the file-import guide shows how.
Software, not a legal opinion.
talat is a transcription tool, not advice on your professional obligations. What it gives you is a strong technical starting point: recordings that never leave your machine. Whether that satisfies your duties in a given matter is a judgement for you. If you are hiring a person to transcribe, or need a certified court transcript, that is a different service; talat is the software you run yourself.
More on how this works.
For the mechanics, see how on-device transcription works, and the other professions with the same requirement are on the use-case overview.
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