Do you still remember every detail of a hearing from a year ago?
Read your hearing. Search it. Study it.
The court's recording, turned into a transcript of who said what, and when. Find any moment in seconds, then play that second to check the words.
Attesta: from the Latin attestari, to bear witness or to confirm.
Attesta in 28 seconds.
The court will send you the recording.
In Ontario, as counsel of record, you can ask the court for the digital audio recording of your hearing. Four steps:
- Fill in the counsel request form and undertaking (PDF, ontariocourts.ca).
- Send it to the court office where the hearing took place. The court charges a small fee per day of recording.
- The recording usually arrives as the court's audio file (.dcr).
- Open it in Attesta. You get a transcript you can skim, search, and use to prepare your case.
A lawyer told us it takes about five minutes to fill in, and the court often sends it within a day.
No court order is needed for counsel of record in most matters. Family matters in the Superior Court need a judge's authorization first, and some proceedings are never released.
.dcr is Liberty's own format. Attesta reads .dcr, MP3, WAV and M4A files as they are. Any other file is converted, or the app tells you what to do.
The court's own undertaking lists "replacing or supplementing notes" as a permitted use. That is what Attesta is for.
A working copy for your own review. Not for filing or use in court. When you need an official record, order the certified transcript.
Who said what, and when.
Each turn has its speaker and its time in the recording. Go back, hear how the witness or the other side answered, and judge their credibility for yourself.
- Speakers told apart by voice, each turn with its time in the recording.
- The court reporter's bookmarks, such as "Witness sworn" or "Cross-examination", so you go straight there.
- A witness answering through an interpreter, or anyone speaking another language, is written in that language, as said.
- Tell it the names once. Type the judge's name or a section number in Names and terms, and they come out spelled right.
From a staged hearing written for our film (R. v. Okafor), read by synthesised voices.
Hear it. Check it. Keep the record.
Click a word and that second of the hearing plays. Words the engine was unsure of are coloured, so you know where to listen. Press Right, or type what you heard. With the certified transcript (the court's official one), its wording is offered beside the word. Every check is kept, with its time and who made it, and you can save and print the transcript as a PDF.
On your own laptop.
- The recording is turned into text on your computer and never uploaded. Nothing is sent to us.
- Only if you ask for an AI summary does the transcript text go to the AI provider you choose. For a court recording, the app warns you first.
Who it is for.
Litigators
Preparing a cross-examination, or checking what a witness said last time, in their own voice.
Family lawyers
Family matters in the Superior Court need a judge's authorization before the recording is released.
Law clerks and paralegals
They fill in the form, run the file and hand you a hearing you can search.
Questions lawyers ask.
Am I allowed to do this under the undertaking?
Yes. The undertaking lists "replacing or supplementing notes" as a permitted use, and the recording stays on a computer under your control.
Does it need the internet?
No. Only an AI summary does, and for a court recording the app warns you first.
Can my clerk run it?
Yes, on a computer under your control and within your legal team, as the undertaking requires.
Can my client have a copy?
The undertaking lets your client listen to the recording in your presence, but not have a copy of it.
Is this a court transcript?
No. It is a working copy for preparation and notes. Courts accept only an official transcript, made by an authorized court transcriptionist.
Try it on one of your own hearings.
A short demo, then we help you install it on your own computer.