The Hearings tab · part of the ablalo dictation app
You drop in the video of the hearing or the audio of a statement, or you record the meeting. ablalo transcribes it on your computer, separates each speaker and lets you mark what matters with its exact minute. When you are done, off to Word.
12:01¿Reconoce usted el contrato de doce de marzo y la firma que figura al pie?
12:08Sí, es mi firma. Se firmó en las oficinas de la empresa.
12:15¿Qué plazo de entrega fijaba la cláusula tercera?
12:21Sesenta días. Pero los materiales llegaron con más de tres meses de retraso.
12:29¿Y usted llegó a firmar aquel contrato?
12:34Yo no llegué a firmar nada aquel día.
Illustrative example, with a made-up conversation in Spanish: two notes marked, favourable in green and contradiction in red, which also show on the video bar.
Preparing an appeal or tomorrow's examination means going back to the recording. And you cannot skim a recording.
To find what the witness said about the date you have to skip forward and back, and handwritten notes lose the exact words.
Online transcription tools ask you to upload the file to their servers: material covered by professional secrecy leaving the firm.
Without who is speaking or timestamps, every quotation sends you back to the video.
The Hearings tab in ablalo works for the courtroom recording, for the Teams, Zoom or Meet meeting you already have on your computer and for the meeting you record from the app itself.
The hearing, a statement or a recorded meeting, in video or audio and in any of those formats. You drag it into the window and the text appears paragraph by paragraph as it is transcribed; if you close the app halfway, it carries on where it left off.
It labels each paragraph with its voice. You listen to a short clip of each one, give it a name and it is applied to the whole recording; if two voices are the same person, you merge them.
You click a paragraph and the video jumps to that moment; while it plays, the text follows along. You can show only what one speaker says.
You mark a sentence as important, contradiction, favourable or review, with your own note. The note keeps the exact second of the first word: that is why you can quote it.
You jump between the occurrences of a word. If a surname comes out wrong, you correct it once and ablalo offers to apply the change across the whole recording; from then on it also recognises it when you dictate.
The transcript with timestamps and speakers, in an editable Word document. Or only the notes, by type: if you filter the contradictions, you export those.
A stretch of the transcript with the voices already named, and the same note in the Word document you take into your brief.
In the transcriptCivil hearing · minute 41
41:38¿Recuerda en qué fecha recibió el requerimiento?
41:52A mediados de marzo, creo. Fue la semana en que cerramos las cuentas.
42:03En su declaración anterior dijo que fue en febrero.
42:09Puede ser. No lo tengo tan claro.
Notes
Civil hearing · vista_0412.mp4
Contradiction
vista_0412.docx«A mediados de marzo, creo.»
Note: compare with the statement on page 23.
Automatic transcription: check it against the recording before quoting it.
Illustrative example in Spanish, with made-up names. When you export the notes, each one goes under its own heading with the minute and the literal quotation.
Hearings is a tab in ablalo: there is nothing separate to install. The first time, it downloads the courtroom add-on, like the rest of the models.
Drag in the recording, or record the meeting from the app or from the tray icon.
On your computer and in the background, while you keep dictating. Then it identifies the speakers.
You name the voices, correct whatever needs it and mark your notes.
Copy the transcript or only the notes, or export them to Word.
What it does and what it doesn't, said plainly.
No. The transcription and the identification of the speakers are done on your own computer, and the recording, the text, the voices and the notes stay on your computer until you delete them. That is the difference from online transcription services, which ask you to upload the file.
MP4, MOV, WebM, MKV, M4A, MP3, WAV, OGG, Opus, FLAC and AAC. It works both with the video of the hearing and with audio recorded on a mobile phone or a voice recorder.
Yes. It identifies the different voices and labels each paragraph with its own. Then you listen to a short clip of each one, give it a name and the name is applied to the whole transcript. If two voices turn out to be the same person, they are merged.
Yes, to an editable Word document with the timestamps and the name of each speaker. You can also export only the notes, grouped by type, or copy them to paste into a brief.
Yes. You can add the recording of the meeting or record it from ablalo. On Windows and on Mac (macOS 14.2 or later) it records your microphone and the computer's sound, so it picks up everyone on the video call. Before recording, tell the others; if you are a lawyer, you also need their consent.
It depends on the length of the recording and on how powerful the computer is. The text appears as it is transcribed, the app tells you how much is left and you can keep dictating in the meantime.
Yes. The Hearings tab is part of the app: you have it in the 14-day free trial, with no card, and in the Professional plan. See pricing.
Download ablalo, open the Hearings tab and drop in the recording: the same app you dictate with. 14-day trial, no card.
Questions? Write to us at hola@ablalo.com
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