Subtitled turns recorded evidence into a court-format transcript for attorneys, paralegals and self-represented parties. Drop in the recording, name the speakers, correct the draft against the recording in the browser, and download a searchable PDF on Letter paper with 25 numbered lines a page, a caption page, timestamps, and a transcriber's declaration to sign, or an editable Word file. Social Security and card numbers can be masked to their last four digits. The transcript costs $0.25 per hour of audio and the court-format files $5.00 per hour of recording, so a 45 minute interview in court format is about $3.94. The draft is machine made: a person checks it before it is filed.
$0.25 an hour · first hour free
Letter paper with 1 inch margins, Courier 12, 25 numbered lines a page that restart on every page so a passage is cited as page and line, a timestamp at the start of every turn, speakers in capitals, and "Page X of Y" on every page. The first page carries the court, case name, case number, the recording's file name and length, who prepared it and when. The last page is a transcriber's declaration to sign, which says the first draft was machine made and checked against the recording.
Typing a recording by hand takes several times its length. Subtitled gives you the full timestamped draft in minutes for $0.25 an hour, so the hours go into checking it, not typing it.
Video is never uploaded: only the sound is sent to be transcribed, and Soniox deletes it once the text is read. The transcript is kept only in your own browser, never on our servers, and there are no analytics or trackers.
Subtitled recognises more than 60 languages and can transcribe in the language spoken or translate into English in the same step. A machine translation is a working copy: where a court requires a certified translation, use it to brief the translator, not in place of one.
Sources: California Rules of Court, rule 2.1040.
Last reviewed 27 October 2026. Not legal advice.
No. Subtitled makes a machine transcript. Courts that require a certified or attested transcript expect a person to check it against the recording and sign for its accuracy; Subtitled gives that person a full timestamped draft and a declaration page to sign. In California, Rule of Court 2.1040(b) says the transcript of a recording offered in evidence need not be certified.
Yes. The Court PDF has 25 numbered lines a page, restarting on every page, and "Page X of Y" at the foot, so any passage can be cited by page and line.
Yes. Correct the text in the Court transcript box against the recording before you export, or download the Word file and edit it there.
It can mask Social Security numbers and card-length numbers to their last four digits. Birth dates, minors' names, home addresses and anything spoken as words need to be redacted by hand; see the redaction guide.
Only in your own browser. Nothing about the recording or transcript is kept on Subtitled's servers.