Legal transcriptionLegal transcription that doesn't keep the audio

The awkward fact about most transcription services is that using one means leaving a copy of a privileged conversation on someone else’s server. Many tools keep uploaded audio until you remember to delete it, or offer deletion as a setting you have to find. Hushscript’s answer is structural: the audio is deleted the moment your transcript is ready, on every job, with no toggle to find. What remains is an encrypted transcript under retention rules you set – or nothing at all, if you use private mode.

Transcribe a legal recording in three steps

Upload the file – a multi-part hearing can be merged into one ordered transcript – and preview the first 5 minutes to check the speaker separation. Then sign up for the full transcript. Your first 30 minutes are free: add a card for a $1 check (released right away, never charged), or pay another way and they arrive with your first purchase.

A working transcript, not a court record

Honesty first, because in legal work the boundary matters: this is a working draft for review, search, and preparation. It is not a certified transcript, and where a transcript and the recording differ, the recording controls. What the working draft is for: finding the admission buried in hour two of a deposition by searching for it, pulling every statement one party made, preparing an examination outline with timecodes pointing back at the record, and getting a usable text of a client call the same day it happened.

Hours of audio, minutes of searching

Discovery audio does not arrive one tidy file at a time. Stage a batch and start it together, transcribe files up to 10 hours each, and tag transcripts by matter so a case’s recordings stay in one searchable place. Every paragraph is timecoded and attributed to a labeled speaker; rename Speaker 1 to a deponent’s name once and it holds through the transcript and every export. DOCX and PDF exports drop into the case file; find-and-replace corrects a misheard name everywhere at once.

Confidentiality by architecture

The claims that matter here are the ones that hold regardless of anyone’s diligence. The audio is deleted the moment the transcript is ready. Recordings are never used to train models. Stored transcripts are encrypted at rest, so a storage leak would expose ciphertext, not client conversations. Retention is your setting: keep until deleted, auto-delete after 7 to 365 days, or set a per-transcript override to match a matter’s lifecycle. Dedicated deletion flows return a receipt for your file. And for the recording that shouldn’t leave a stored transcript anywhere, private mode delivers a password-protected archive instead of a saved transcript. EU, EEA, Swiss, and UK audio is processed in the EU.

What legal transcription costs a practice

Legal transcription services price by the hour of audio with rush multipliers; subscription tools price by the seat. Hushscript prices by the minute of audio, and only when you use it. On the largest pack ($49.99 for 100 hours, about $0.50 an hour), a 3-hour deposition is about $1.50, and a heavy discovery month of 20 audio hours about $10. A quiet month costs nothing, and unused minutes stay valid for a year, with any activity resetting the clock.

Everything on this page describes capabilities, not compliance status or legal conclusions. Check the rules that apply in your jurisdiction before relying on any transcript in a matter.