Transcribe a Legal Recording, Get a Draft Transcript
Upload a recording of a client meeting, witness interview, hearing, or dictation, or paste a link, and ScreenApp turns it into a text transcript with speaker labels and timestamps. This is an AI draft transcript for review, search, and case prep, not a certified transcript for the record: a certified court reporter or human transcriptionist still needs to prepare and certify anything that has to be filed or admitted as evidence.
You get a working transcript you can search and question instead of scrubbing back through the recording to find what someone said.
What you get:
- A transcript with speaker identification, in 100+ languages
- Add case-specific terms and names with custom vocabulary for transcription, so acronyms and party names come through correctly
- AI chat with any recording, so you can ask what was said about a topic instead of rereading the transcript
- search across recordings by name or transcript
- Export as PDF, DOCX, TXT, SRT and VTT
- team workspaces and share links, so co-counsel and paralegals can read the transcript without re-uploading the recording
- Free plan: 2 transcriptions of recordings up to 45 minutes each, with AI chat on both
How to Transcribe a Legal Recording
- Upload, paste a link, or record: Drag in a recording (MP4, M4V, MOV, AVI, WEBM, MKV, FLV, TS, MTS, M2TS, 3GP, 3GPP, 3G2, WMV, ASF, VOB, OGV, RM, RMVB, MPG, MPEG, M2V, F4V, MXF) of a client meeting, hearing, or interview from your file storage, paste a link, or record dictation directly in the browser or the app.
- Let it transcribe: The recording is converted to text, speakers are separated, and every sentence gets a timestamp linking it back to the moment in the audio or video.
- Review the draft: Read the transcript, correct anything the AI got wrong, and search for the passage you need. Treat it as a review copy, not the certified record.
Accuracy depends on the audio. A clean single-microphone feed with people speaking one at a time transcribes best; cross-talk, a distant microphone, or a noisy conference room will have more gaps. See how we measure accuracy.
Legal Transcription vs Other Services
| ScreenApp | Rev | Ditto Transcripts | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Transcription type | AI draft | AI draft or human, priced separately | Human transcriptionists |
| Price | Free plan: 2 transcriptions, up to 45 min each; Pro $19/month annual | $0.35/page (AI draft) or $2.50/page (certified) | $1.75/min (standard tier) |
| Turnaround | Minutes after upload | Under 30 minutes (AI draft) or 5 business days (certified) | 3 to 5 business days |
| Speaker labels | speaker identification | Not stated | Not stated |
| Accuracy claim | 95.8% (April 2026 test, clear English audio) | Not stated (AI draft tier) | 99% accuracy guarantee |
| Certified transcript for the record | Not offered | Yes, on the certified tier | Yes |
| Export formats | PDF, DOCX, TXT, SRT and VTT | Not stated | Not stated |
Sources, checked 2026-09-17: Transcription accuracy and languages, ScreenApp pricing, rev.com/solutions/legal, dittotranscripts.com/legal-transcription-services/deposition-transcription-services/
- vs Rev: Rev’s own legal page prices an AI rough draft at $0.35 a page, and a signed, certified transcript at $2.50 a page with a 5 business days standard turnaround. ScreenApp’s plans include AI transcription without a per-page charge, but does not offer certification.
- vs Ditto Transcripts: Ditto transcribes with human transcriptionists rather than AI, at $1.75 a minute with a 3 to 5 business days standard turnaround, and its transcripts are certified for court. ScreenApp transcribes with AI so your team has a review copy while a certified transcript, if you need one, is prepared separately.
Who Uses Legal Transcription
Law firms and attorneys turn a recorded client meeting or witness interview into a searchable transcript the same day, so they can find a specific answer without replaying the whole recording.
Paralegals and legal assistants prepare case notes and summaries from recorded conversations, then hand the transcript to the attorney for review.
In-house counsel who cannot sit in on every recorded call review a transcript afterward instead of blocking out the calendar for the full session.
Insurance and corporate legal departments transcribe recorded interviews, claims statements, and internal investigations, then search across a caseload for a phrase someone used.
Court reporting firms and their staff use an AI draft as a fast first pass on a backlog of recordings, then apply their own certification process on top of it.
Attorneys who dictate case notes, memos, or correspondence get a text draft back a few minutes after recording, instead of typing it out by hand.