First-pass review in 60+ languages
Working transcripts and translations of recorded evidence, so reviewers can tag relevance and privilege before deciding what goes to a qualified translator.
For courts & legal teams
Recorded interviews, depositions, voicemails and video evidence — in discovery, much of it arrives in a language nobody on the matter speaks. Octavia produces working transcripts and translations so the team can find what matters, then hand those passages to a certified translator or interpreter for anything a court will see.
The specific reasons this content usually stays in one language.
Commissioning a qualified translator for every hour in a production is rarely proportionate, so material goes unread until a deadline forces the question.
In a recorded meeting with several participants, a translation that does not track who said what is close to useless for review.
Client communications and work product carry confidentiality obligations that a consumer translation app was never built to respect.
The parts of the platform that matter for this work, rather than the full feature list.
Working transcripts and translations of recorded evidence, so reviewers can tag relevance and privilege before deciding what goes to a qualified translator.
Diarization separates witnesses, counsel and interpreters in a recording, so the transcript follows each speaker rather than merging them into one block.
Party names, entities, products and defined terms locked in a glossary, so they render one way across every recording in the matter.
Timecoded subtitle files tie each translated line to its point in the recording, so a reviewer can go straight to it and listen.
Encryption in transit and at rest, configurable retention, role-based access by workspace, and content that is not used to train models.
Process explainers, intake guidance and firm updates voiced or subtitled for clients who follow them best in another language.
Four steps from the file you already have to every language you need.
One workspace per matter, with access limited to the people on it and retention set to your policy.
Parties, entities, places and defined terms pinned before the first recording is processed.
Working transcripts and translations let the team flag what is relevant, privileged or worth a closer listen.
Passages that will be relied on go to a certified translator or interpreter; the rest stays as review notes.
One upload in, every format you need to publish out.
Including the ones where the honest answer is a limitation.
No. Octavia produces working transcripts and translations; it does not certify them, and nothing it exports should be filed, served or relied on as a certified translation. Where a translation will go before a court or tribunal, or be relied on as evidence, use a qualified translator who can attest to it. The value comes earlier: knowing which twenty minutes of a forty-hour production need that work.
No. Proceedings need a qualified court interpreter, present or remote, who can be sworn, questioned and corrected on the record. Octavia works on recordings after the fact. It can help counsel prepare — reviewing a recorded prior statement before a deposition, for example — but it does not stand in for the interpreter, and its transcript is not a substitute for the official record.
Treat it as you would any vendor that will hold client material, and review the data handling terms before uploading. Content is encrypted in transit and at rest, retention is configurable, customer content is not used to train models, access is controlled by role, and processing can stay in a defined region where a client requires it. Raise specific engagement or protective-order constraints with Octavia first, and keep restricted material on the systems that order permits.
Far enough to find and prioritise material in clear recordings; less so with poor audio, strong dialect, slang, code-switching or crosstalk — the same conditions that trouble human transcribers. Have a fluent reviewer spot-check each type of recording early, and treat any passage a decision turns on as unverified until a qualified linguist has checked it against the audio.
Practical guides from the Octavia editorial team.
The same engine, pointed at a different kind of work.
Start with a closed matter: run its recordings through and compare the working translation with the professional one already on file.