The applications for voice-to-text conversion are innumerable. Aside from the convenience and productivity enhancements it provides day-to-day communication – it is also making its way into the legal community as a valuable tool for e-discovery.
What is e-discovery you ask? E- (or electronic) discovery, is any process in which electronic data is sought, located, secured and searched with the intent of using it as evidence in a civil or criminal legal case. E-discovery can be carried out offline on a particular computer or it can be done in a network.
For example, where legal teams used to have to wade through and transcribe voicemail audio files there is now the growing convenience of clients who have voicemail-to-text or voicemail-to-email messages with the audio message already transcribed and filed. As you can imagine this saves not only time for the legal team but also saves lots of money in reducing the man hours needed for e-discovery efforts.
Of course, lawyers don’t just use voice-to-text applications for e-discovery initiatives they also use them for day-to-day business productivity. With voicemail-to-text services such as SpinVox with Mutare Software’s Enabled Voicemail (EVM) lawyers can visually scan through, prioritize and respond to messages from their mobile phone when listening to a voice message would be difficult or inappropriate, such as noisy airports, meetings and courtrooms. Voice-to-text also turns idle downtime into billable time, because it includes one-click return phone calling in the body of each message and the converted voice-to-text messages with Caller ID makes appending to client files and future search/retrieval as easy as email.
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