What is Rev?
Rev is a transcription platform that converts audio and video recordings into accurate, searchable text for legal professionals, law enforcement, journalists, researchers, and business teams. It produces AI and human-verified transcripts, captions, subtitles, deposition summaries, and meeting notes across a wide range of use cases. The platform addresses the cost of manually reviewing hours of recorded material at scale. Transcription is available via AI at 96%+ accuracy or through a network of over 14,000 human transcriptionists at 99%+ accuracy. Rev is accessible via web app, a mobile app for iOS and Android, a desktop recorder, and a developer API.
Features & Benefits
- AI Transcription: Convert audio and video to text in under five minutes using Rev’s proprietary Automatic Speech Recognition engine, which supports over 37 languages including Spanish and Spanglish. Transcription starts automatically after a file is uploaded, a meeting is recorded, or a mobile recording is completed.
- Human Transcription: Produce human-verified transcripts at 99%+ accuracy through a network of over 14,000 expert transcriptionists available 24/7 with delivery in as little as two hours. This transcription tier is suited for court-admissible records, witness testimony, and sensitive recordings.
- AI Notetaker: Capture complete, accurate notes from video calls on Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and Zoom. The AI note taker joins the call, records audio, produces a full transcript, and extracts summaries and action items automatically after the session ends.
- AI Captions: Generate captions for video content in over 37 languages from uploaded files or recorded meetings.
- Human Captions: Produce FCC- and ADA-compliant captions in English and Spanish for video content requiring accessibility standards.
- Global Subtitles: Translate and subtitle video content in 17 languages for international distribution.
- Multi-File Insights: Analyze combinations of audio, video, PDF, and text files together in a single workspace. Ask direct questions across all files and receive answers with citations tied to each source. Supports up to 500 files at once depending on plan.
- AI Prompts and Templates: Apply pre-built or custom prompt templates to transcripts to extract key quotes, build chronologies, generate meeting summaries, or draft motion outlines. Legal-specific templates include cross-examination outlines and inconsistency spotting.
- AI Assistant: Query individual transcripts through a chat interface and receive timestamped answers tied directly to the source text.
- SmartDepo: Generate court-ready deposition summaries and memos with 100% accurate page-line citations.
- Court Reporting Services: Receive jurisdiction-compliant court transcripts in as little as one business day. Options include Human Rough Draft, Ready to Certify, and Ready to Certify Premium.
- Interactive Transcript Editor: Edit transcripts with read-along audio and video playback, editing shortcuts, bookmarks, and version history.
- Evidence Clipping: Search transcripts in real time to isolate key moments, then export timestamped audio and video clips with transcript text for use as exhibits or shared case files.
- Transcript Translation: View side-by-side foreign language translations of transcripts across supported languages.
- Mobile App: Record, transcribe, and review files from a smartphone with live transcript display, real-time bookmarking, and automatic sync to desktop.
- Desktop Recorder: Capture and transcribe audio directly from a browser with a live transcript view and no video platform required.
- File Management: Organize files using color tagging. Bulk upload ZIP archives and bulk download entire folder structures with subfolder organization intact.
- Google Drive Integration: Connect Google Drive and shared drives to import files and export processed transcripts back to specific folders with structure preserved.
- Secure Transcript Sharing: Share transcripts and summaries with team members, add comments, and collaborate on edits within the platform.
- Speech-to-Text API: Connect to Rev’s speech-to-text engine directly through a developer API for transcript delivery and case management integration.
- Data Security: Encrypt uploaded files at the point of upload. Rev does not sell user data or use it to train third-party AI models. The platform holds SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, and CJIS certifications.
What can Rev do?
- Transcribe audio and video files automatically
- Transcribe police body cam footage
- Convert jail call recordings to text
- Transcribe deposition audio
- Take AI notes in Zoom meetings
- Take AI notes in Google Meet calls
- Take AI notes in Microsoft Teams meetings
- Generate meeting summaries with action items
- Generate court-ready deposition summaries
- Transcribe witness interviews
- Produce ADA-compliant closed captions for video
- Analyze multiple evidence files for contradictions
- Create timestamped clips from transcripts
- Transcribe audio in Spanish and other languages
- Draft motion outlines from transcripts
Real-World Applications
Law firms and criminal defense attorneys managing large discovery sets may use Rev’s transcription and multi-file analysis to convert body cam footage, jail calls, and depositions into searchable text. Reviewing contradictions across all those sources in one workspace can compress what would otherwise be days of manual review. Timestamped evidence clips can be pulled directly from transcripts and packaged as exhibits for trial.
Law enforcement investigators and prosecutors handling high-volume case files may use bulk transcription and multi-file analysis to process audio, video, and document evidence together. Surfacing inconsistencies across witness statements becomes faster when everything is transcribed and searchable. Custom templates can generate DA-ready reports in a standard format with citations back to the original file.
Court reporters and legal transcription agencies may use Rev’s human-verified services to receive jurisdiction-compliant transcripts ready for certification within one business day. The SmartDepo feature produces deposition summaries and page-line cited memos without manual formatting, reducing the turnaround time on final deliverables.
Research teams, journalists, and business professionals who run regular interviews or internal meetings may use the AI note taker to capture and organize everything discussed without manual note-taking. Full transcripts are produced alongside summaries and action items after each session. Custom AI prompt templates can extract specific themes, quotes, and follow-up items from each transcript automatically.
