The Office of the Colorado State Public Defender Conquer Evidence Overload With AI Transcription Of Video Discovery Footage

With Reduct, staff across the state's public defender offices get access to accurate AI transcriptions, within minutes of uploading their evidence.

In addition to uploading files on their hard drives, public defenders in Colorado can also import evidence directly from their cloud storage.

Reduct can transcribe footage in over 90 languages- including Spanish, Chinese, Tagalog and Arabic.

We also automatically detect periods without speech and don’t charge for them.

Even the best AI struggles with accuracy when it comes to the kind of footage the defenders upload - body worn camera footage, dashcam video, recorded calls and interviews - especially when there’s audio with colloquial speech, slang, and background noise.

An attorney or their paralegal can either correct the AI transcripts themselves or send such difficult-but-high-stakes recordings for human transcription with just a click, which arrives the next day.

Approximately one in fifteen hours of material uploaded by the Office of the Colorado State Public Defender is sent to our team of expert human transcribers, who make crucial corrections to the transcript and speaker labels.

Reduct makes audio and video evidence searchable.

You can search for a specific keyword, or if you remember the general gist of what was said, Reduct’s fuzzy search will take you right to the relevant section, even if the exact word isn’t spoken.

Reduct's rapid AI transcripts are great for evidence review, but their value goes through the roof when they are used to rapidly pull clips together to create reels for trial.

Audio and video clips extracted from the transcript using the text-based interface are admissible as evidence in most contexts, even in scenarios where the uncertified transcript alone might not be.

Colorado, like many states in the US, has significant communities where English is not the first language. Given this, the State Office of the Public Defender routinely receives bodyworn camera footage or recorded phone calls in different languages, most often in Spanish.

Reduct supports transcription in over 90 languages, as well as offering the ability to create exhibits with translated captions.

This means that even a lawyer who doesn’t speak Spanish can rapidly hone in on the right section of footage, and create exhibits including Spanish-language audio.

Reduct supports the export of audio, video, and transcripts in a variety of formats.

The attorneys copy and paste transcripts straight into their motions, or print them out for cross and impeachment. These transcripts can be exported in Word, CSV, PDF and ASCII text format with or without timestamps, depending on the usecase.

They’ll also export video/audio exhibits with burned-in captions to a file format they are comfortable with to avoid unpleasant tech glitches during playback in court.

This is a recently added workflow in Reduct where multi-cam footage is synced to a single timeline.

Using this new interface, public defense attorneys can see the same incident from different angles, captured in body worn camera and dashcam footage of different officers at the scene.

This kind of analysis enables an attorney to get a complete picture of what really happened and find critical evidence to present in court.

All throughout this process, the COPD team ​doesn’t need to worry about the sensitive ​data they’re uploading to Reduct.

Reduct’s cloud based platform is built with ​privacy-by-default principles.

Our granular access control allows COPD ​administrators to collaborate on projects ​while having full visibility of who has access ​to what.