Immigration court · DAR recordings
A transcript of your hearing, straight from the DAR export
Upload the recording you downloaded from ECAS. We transcribe every microphone, tell the speakers apart, and read the A-number and hearing date for you. You watch the draft appear, name the voices, and download a transcript you can check against the audio, passage by passage.
- A 20-minute hearing takes about 2 minutes
- Kept until you delete it
- Never used to train AI
How we protect your recordings
Lawyers have to take reasonable steps to keep client information confidential, and to check that the services they use do too.1,2 Here is exactly what we do, so you can make that check.
Your recording goes straight to private storage
Your browser sends it directly to our private storage over an encrypted connection, using an upload link that stops working after 15 minutes. It never passes through our web server or through email.1,3Everything is encrypted, and each order has its own key
Every connection is encrypted, and our storage provider encrypts everything it stores. On top of that, each order gets its own encryption key: the transcript, speaker names, notes and hearing details are locked with it before they are saved.1,3Deleting really deletes
When you delete a transcript, we destroy its key. Every copy of it, including those in our database's automatic backups, becomes unreadable at that moment.1Only you can open your orders
You sign in with a one-time link we email you, so there is no password to steal. An order opens only for someone signed in with the email address it was placed with.1No outside AI, no training
We run the speech-recognition software ourselves. Your recording and transcript are never sent to an AI company, never used to train anything, and no AI rewrites your transcript.4A draft you can check
Transcripts are machine-made drafts. Every passage plays back from the recording, and words the software was unsure of are underlined, so you can check anything before you rely on it.4,5We keep as little as we can
The recording and its audio are deleted 7 days after your transcript is ready (at once if you delete them). The transcript stays until you delete it.1,6Who else is involved
Cloudflare stores your files and runs our website; Modal runs the transcription; Resend sends our emails (your address with a sign-in link or a notice about your order, never the recording or transcript). No one else receives your recording.2Protection against misuse
A check that keeps bots out of the sign-in form, limits on how often anyone can request links or place orders, and, while we are in beta, every new customer approved by a person.1You may want to tell your client that a transcription service will process the recording.7
Sources
- ABA Model Rule 1.6(c) and Comment [18]: make reasonable efforts to prevent unauthorized access to, or disclosure of, client information.
- ABA Model Rule 5.3, Comment [3]: when an outside service stores client information, make reasonable efforts to ensure it protects that information.
- ABA Formal Opinion 477R (2017): client information may travel over the internet with reasonable security; highly sensitive information may call for more.
- ABA Formal Opinion 512 (2024): before using an AI tool, understand how it uses and protects client data, and review what it produces.
- ABA Model Rule 1.1, Comment [8]: understand the benefits and risks of the technology you use.
- 8 C.F.R. § 1208.6(a): information from an asylum, withholding or torture-convention case must not be disclosed without the applicant's written consent. The rule binds the government, but hearing recordings often contain exactly this information.
- ABA Formal Opinion 08-451 (2008): supervise outsourced services, and get the client's consent when they will receive confidential information.
States adopt these rules with changes, and some have their own opinions on online services: check your state bar's. This page describes our service; it isn't legal advice.