Solutions to PACE-compliant interview recording

Over the last fifteen years there has been a gradual move to digital recording solutions to reduce costs and improve functionality.

Digital recording allows for:

• Replay whilst still recording
• Live monitoring from outside the room
• Central storage for quick access
• Reduced maintenance costs
• Reduced media costs
• No loss of quality and easy distribution
• Centralised management of recorders
• Single system for synchronised audio and video
• Quicker transcription time
• Secure integrated workflow management

There is now an urgent need to move away from analogue tape recording due to the unavailability of the tapes themselves and spare parts for the recorders.

Digital recording is now a mature technology for:

• Interview recording (in accordance with PACE [1])
• Emergency Services recording
• Surveillance recording
• Court recording

This white paper explains the benefits of upgrading to a digital solution for PACE-compliant interview recording and the costs savings that it can bring.”

Locate vital information automatically

The ability to record audio channels digitally is now well established in situations such as:

• Courtrooms
• Air traffic control communications
• Lawful Intercept by Law Enforcement Agencies
• Police and Immigration interviews
• Emergency Services command and control position
• Surveillance by Law Enforcement Agencies

With the ever increasing communications and the rapid development of digital recording technology and decreasing costs of mass storage huge quantities of data from a variety of sources are being recorded.

The result is that most organisations do not have sufficient manual resource to analyse the recorded data and may be missing vital information and intelligence. Best in class audio analytic tools allow rapid identification of important information that may be buried within thousands of hours of these recordings. Whether you are searching for a word, a phrase, a person or just trying to understand complex relationships audio analytics can greatly enhance your operational capability and save significant costs. However these technologies only produce effective results in certain scenarios.

This paper reviews when various data mining technologies such as key word spotting, text to speech, speaker ID, language ID, should be used to achieve the best results. The paper also discusses practical ways in which Supervisors and Managers can use this knowledge to maximise manual and automated resources.

Audience

This white paper is relevant to:

• Analysts
• Managers
• Supervisors

In particular it is relevant to those responsible for recording solutions and whose budgets are weighed down by the labour costs of trawling through thousands of hours of recordings.

Solutions to VoIP (Voice over IP) Recording Deployment: A three point plan for updating your communications network to record VoIP

Solutions to VoIP (Voice over IP) Recording Deployment: A three point plan for updating your communications network to record VoIP

Although Voice over IP (VoIP) has been around for several years, the benefits of integrated voice and data solutions and the prospect of lower cost, centralised equipment for business is one just being realised.

With this new method of voice communications follow new requirements to record this information.

This white paper describes the benefits and solutions to recording VoIP communications.

This document will:

• Describe VoIP and its benefits
• Outline solutions to recording VoIP
• Describe the procedure to be follow to successfully record your VoIP communications

Audience

This white paper is relevant to:

• Those responsible for the operation of any recording system and wish to know more about VoIP and VoIP recording
• Those whose networks either currently use VoIP or may do so in the future.

Mass Storage: Ongoing integration of voice and data prompts renewed emphasis on storage infrastructure

With the ongoing integration of phone call recording into the wider field of voice and data services, the telecomms industry is being forced to rethink its network infrastructure and technology resources. A major element of this infrastructure is data storage. Whether a RAID array, internet enabled NAS, SAN, or emerging archive media such as Blu-ray, the economies of scale to be achieved are considerable.

Whole industries wish to minimise administration and cost associated with legacy storage solutions, whilst legal requirements within certain industry sectors also mean that voice recording information and associated data files must be kept for a minimum number of days or years…