AUDIO DISCOVERY

Nexidia Forensic Search makes electronic audio review and search much faster, scalable and more cost-effective, thus meeting the challenge of today's demanding litigation environment. Traditionally, law firms and audio discovery companies have relied on manual transcription or sampled listening to review and investigate audio files. However, transcription is slow and costly, and sampled listening is an ineffective process for locating the few fleeting words that can make or break a case. Neither transcription nor manual listening is scalable or capable of economically handling the large amounts of audio data now being demanded and produced in legal proceedings.

Using Nexidia Forensic Search tools, producing parties can winnow irrelevant materials and focus their efforts on finding and reviewing potentially responsive records. Receiving parties can use the same tools to organize their review, and to find the "needle in the haystack."

Nexidia Forensic Search

• provides tremendous flexibility for conducting searches. The unique Phonetic Search Engine indexes and analyzes phonemes, the smallest discrete elements of human speech.
  
• preserves the powerful impact of audio recording and voice inflection by using audio files rather than transcripts
  
• enables both simple and sophisticated searches, automated analysis and organization for in-depth review, and targeted listening to large volumes of audio
  
• returns highly accurate results over a broad range of audio quality, accents, and dialects. Nexidia's Phonetic Search Engine removes the dictionary-restricted limitations of speech-to-text processing
  
• indexes recorded audio at 83 times real-time, making large volumes of audio quickly available for search
  
• provides a better ROI for your organization by creating a more thorough approach and less expensive solution than the traditional methods of transcription and manual listening
  

The Nexidia server ingests audio recordings and rapidly makes the audio content phonetically searchable. Users create and apply search terms and queries to the audio collection, and the results are collected into easy-to-navigate reports. Using Nexidia Replay, audio is displayed and played back thus allowing users to further refine searches and drill into the audio content to conduct in-depth analysis.