Turn hours of bodycam footage into a case you can search.
VST transcribes, translates and summarises police video, interviews, jail calls and other audiovisual discovery on a workstation under your control. Search the transcript, jump directly to the recording, and check every generated summary against its source.
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Local processing · Annual small-office licence · Remote setup available
A routine case can arrive with more video than anyone has time to watch
Body-worn cameras, dashcam, interviews, dispatch audio and jail calls can turn a relatively ordinary criminal matter into hours of audiovisual discovery. Transcription and translation services are expensive, and reviewing everything in real time consumes the hours available for the case.
VST produces a searchable first-pass record on your own workstation, helping you find the parts that need careful human review. It works across the media sources a defense practice actually receives:
- Body-worn camera
- Dashcam
- Police interviews and interrogations
- Jail calls
- 911 and dispatch audio
- CCTV and phone video
- Multilingual recordings
The workflow
Step 1 — Add the case media. Import a folder containing video and audio. VST preserves the relationship between each output and its source file.
Step 2 — Transcribe and identify speakers. Convert difficult audio into a timestamped, searchable transcript. Speakers are separated and can be relabelled during review.
Step 3 — Translate where required. Detect the spoken language and produce a working translation alongside the original transcript.
Step 4 — Summarise with evidence attached. Generate a readable account of a recording, with supporting extracts that let you check what the model relied upon.
Step 5 — Search and return to the source. Search for a name, place, phrase or event and jump directly to the corresponding point in the recording.
Step 6 — Export the working record. Export transcripts, notes and structured reports for case preparation and downstream systems.
An AI answer is useful only when you can check it
General-purpose AI can produce a confident summary that is not supported by the recording. VST pairs each generated account with extracts from the underlying transcript and keeps the original recording one click away — see source-linked text and audio summarisation.
The attorney decides what matters. VST makes the evidence faster to navigate — it helps you understand the record; it does not decide what the record means legally.
The evidence does not have to leave your office
VST can run on a suitable NVIDIA workstation in the firm. Video, transcripts, translations and summaries remain on infrastructure controlled by the customer; no shared public AI service is required, and there is no mandatory upload to Rigr AI for a local deployment.
Already have a GPU workstation? Send us the model and we will confirm whether it is suitable. Need a machine? We can provide a tested specification and assist with setup. See Deployment, sovereignty & information control for how VST runs inside your environment.
A cost model built for a small office
One annual small-office licence. No per-minute transcription charge — so you can process recurring case material on the licensed workstation without watching a meter. Hardware is separate; we will help you confirm or specify it.
Who it is for
A good fit
- Solo and small criminal-defense practices
- Private assigned or appointed counsel
- Public-defender and conflict-counsel teams
- Offices receiving recurring bodycam or jail-call evidence
- Practices encountering multilingual discovery
- Teams that prefer local processing and predictable cost
Probably not a fit
- A practice receiving only a few minutes of audiovisual evidence per year
- Someone seeking a certified verbatim transcript for filing without human review
- A customer without suitable hardware who is unwilling to acquire it
- A consumer trying to transcribe a single personal recording
Questions defense teams ask
Can VST transcribe police body-camera footage? Yes. VST processes audio and video into timestamped, searchable transcripts and keeps each transcript linked to the source recording.
Can it translate Spanish bodycam footage? VST detects and transcribes supported source languages and can render a working translation into the reviewer’s language. Human or certified translation may still be required for formal evidential use.
Does the footage have to be uploaded to Rigr AI? No mandatory cloud upload is required for a local deployment. Processing can take place on a workstation controlled by the customer.
Can a solo attorney use it? Yes. A small-office deployment can run on one suitable processing workstation and does not require an enterprise server.
Is the transcript certified? No. VST produces an AI-assisted working transcript for evidence review and case preparation. It does not replace a certified transcript where one is required.
Does it charge by the minute? The small-office licence is annual rather than per-minute, so you can process recurring case material on the licensed workstation.
Can it review several bodycam files from one incident? VST can process several files within a case. Reviewing multiple recordings from one incident on a shared timeline is in active development; this page will describe synchronized multi-camera playback once that capability is in production.
What hardware is required? Requirements depend on volume and model configuration. Send us your workstation model for a quick compatibility check, or ask us for a tested specification.
VST is the same evidence-review workspace Rigr AI builds for investigative teams — see VST Teams for the full platform, or ask us about a small-office licence using the button below. A criminal-defense practice is a valid customer, not an accidental visitor.