Every Jail Call, Transcribed with Speaker Labels and Timestamps You Can Cite
Upload the jail-call audio from your discovery dump and get diarized, timestamped transcripts with an AI evidence agent that answers your questions with citations to the exact second.
Jail Calls Are Buried Gold — And Nobody Has Time to Mine Them
- Hundreds of hours of jail-call audio dumped in discovery, zero hours to listen — Prosecutors hand over dozens of Securus jail calls knowing defenders can't scrub them all. With 57% of surveyed defense lawyers reporting appointed cases make up more than half their caseload (NACDL survey of 500+ members across 44 states and DC), the one call where your client contradicts the co-defendant's statement goes unreviewed — and the plea offer gets evaluated without it.
- Recorded jail calls poison attorney-client privilege — Jail telecommunications vendors routinely record and monitor calls — a Securus audit revealed more than 1,500 protected attorney-client calls were recorded, affecting at least 353 defendants' cases in New York alone. When those recordings land in the prosecution's discovery dump, you need a way to identify and redact privileged spans before turning anything over, with an audit trail that holds up.
- No way to find the one call that matters — Even defenders who do listen face audio with no timestamps, no speaker labels, and no searchable transcript. Finding the call where your client's account diverges from the police report — the contradiction you'd cite in a cross-exam outline or motion — means scrubbing raw audio with nothing to cite. 87% of lawyers reported client jail calls were recorded or not confidential (NACDL 2020), and almost none of that audio arrives in a reviewable form.
Why Defense Teams <span class="gradient">Actually Use It</span>
- Find the contradiction without listening to 40 hours — Full-text search across diarized transcripts and documents means the call where your client's statement diverges from the police report is a query away — with word-level timestamps and a citation that jumps to the exact second you can drop into a cross-exam outline or motion. Every AI answer cites the exact source moment it came from, so nothing goes into your work product without a verifiable source.
- Privilege hygiene built in — Redact audio by picking the exact spoken words — that span is muted — and every redaction is saved as a new derived file. Originals are never touched and every action is audited, which matters when 87% of lawyers reported client jail calls were recorded or not confidential (NACDL 2020) and privileged spans must be identified before discovery turnover.
- Cross-exam and suppression prep from the call itself — Cross-exam drafts from a review signal give you suggested questions with both sides' quotes — your client's jail-call statement next to the officer's report language — every question tied to a quoted source and saved as attorney-review notes. The Suppression Motion Prep playbook runs a Miranda sweep with both sides quoted and cited, so your motion practice starts from the evidence itself, not from memory of it.
What's included
- Deepgram Nova transcription with speaker diarization and word-level timestamps on every jail call, with one-click speaker renaming that propagates across all segments
- AI evidence agent with full-text search across transcripts and documents — answers carry clickable citations to the exact video moment or PDF page
- Auto-signals on ingest: every new file is compared against earlier case evidence and candidate inconsistencies surface as unreviewed review signals
- Audio redaction where you pick the exact spoken words and that span is muted — every redaction is a new derived file, originals immutable, all actions audited
- Cross-exam drafts from review signals with both sides' quotes, every suggested question tied to a quoted source, saved as attorney-review notes
- Exhibit pack exports — video clips, still frames, quoted excerpts plus a MANIFEST.md citation index — gated by per-member export permission
Quick wins
- Sync bodycam, dashcam, and interview-room footage of the same event to a single master clock — synced playback with an interleaved transcript, so the suppression issue at minute 14 is checked against every camera at once.
- Run the Miranda Timeline playbook after uploading interrogation footage: a chronological custodial-interrogation timeline with both sides quoted and cited, ready for your motion to suppress.
How it works
- Create the case and upload the calls — Start a case and upload jail-call audio, bodycam video, 911 audio, and police-report PDFs — up to 2 GB per file by web upload, or email attachments straight to your case's inbound address.
- Get diarized transcripts and review signals — Transcription runs with speaker diarization and word-level timestamps. Rename speakers once. Auto-signals compare each call against earlier evidence and flag candidate inconsistencies for review.
- Ask, cite, and export — Ask the evidence agent questions and click citations to the exact second. Extract clips, draft cross-exam questions, and export an exhibit pack with a MANIFEST.md citation index for court.
How Evidence Copilot Turns Jail Calls into <span class="gradient">Searchable, Citable Evidence</span>
- Speaker-diarized jail-call transcripts with word-level timestamps — one-click speaker renaming propagates across every segment
- Ask the AI evidence agent to find contradictions, extract clips, or pull quotes — every answer cites the exact second of the call
- Auto-signals compare each new jail call against earlier case evidence and surface candidate inconsistencies for your review
Why we're different
- Word-level timestamps with speaker diarization — not generic transcription
- Every AI answer cites the exact second of the call
- Auto-signals flag report-vs-call inconsistencies before you ask
- Cross-exam drafts quote both sides — no credibility conclusions
- Audio redaction by exact spoken words; originals never touched
- Every action audited; every AI output marked pending human review
- Published pricing: Solo $39/user/mo, PD Office $750/attorney/yr
- Defense-only by design — built for defenders, not agencies
Published pricing, no sales wall: Solo $39/user/mo, Firm $99/user/mo, PD Office $750/attorney/yr — every plan includes the full workspace, and every AI answer cites the exact source moment.
What clients say
I emailed 30 jail calls to the case's inbound address on a Friday. By Monday I had diarized transcripts with word-level timestamps, and a review signal flagged where my client's call contradicted the bodycam before I'd even started reviewing. The citation jumped straight to the second.
— Dana Whitfield
The cross-exam draft gave me suggested questions with both sides quoted — my client's jail-call statement next to the officer's report language. I reviewed, edited the attorney-review notes, and was prepped for the preliminary hearing in an afternoon.
— Marcus Ellery
We redacted privileged spans from a jail call by selecting the exact spoken words, and the original stayed untouched with a full audit trail. Every redaction was a new derived file — exactly what we needed for discovery turnover.
— Priya Raghavan
Frequently asked questions
How is this different from JusticeText or running Whisper locally?
Evidence Copilot gives you diarized, word-timestamped transcription plus an AI evidence agent whose every answer cites the exact second, auto-signals that flag inconsistencies on ingest, attorney-review cross-exam drafts, audited redaction, and exhibit-pack exports — all for $750/attorney/yr at the PD tier. The free DIY Whisper stack breaks at case scale: no diarization QC, no citations, no redaction, no audit trail.
Book a 20-minute walkthrough with your jail-call audio questions — or start on the Solo plan at $39/user/mo with 15 media-processing hours included.