For court reporters

Your transcript is basically done when you get home.

Record in the room or upload any audio or video. Stenobox hands back a court-formatted verbatim draft — 98.54% word-accurate, scored against a certified transcript, with every doubtful word flagged and linked to its moment in the audio. Only you can see your work, stored on Google Cloud's SOC 2–certified infrastructure. You review and certify.

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↑ Drag & drop a file
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♪ deposition-audio.mp3 ✓
＋ Attach the caption — optional
Stenobox reads the caption so names come out spelled your way — fix one once and it's fixed everywhere.
deposition-audio · review
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BY MR. ELLIS:
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Q.   Directing your attention to March 3,
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     2024 -- were you wearing your seatbelt?
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A.   Yes.  I always wear my seatbelt.
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Q.   And did the airbags deploy on impact?
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A.   Both of them, yes.
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Q.   How fast would you say the other car
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     was going?
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               MR. HAYES:  Objection.  Speculation.
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               THE WITNESS:  He was doing 55, easy.
Disagreement Missing words Wrong speaker Reviewed
Click any word to hear that exact moment. Check the flags, fix with one click — then certify. The production is done.
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📄 deposition-audio — court format
✓ Title page & caption — built from the caption you attached
✓ Appearances
✓ Index to exhibits
✓ 25 numbered lines per page
✓ Reporter's certificate
Title page and certificate built for you — nothing typed by hand.
▶ Playing audio — "deploy"
The same moment from the same audio. One still needs the red pen.
MAXScribe® AutoTranscript — $300/mo, unedited
AutoTranscript — draft–□✕
1SPEAKER 3: okay. so my records
2reflect that you're involved in an
3accident on or around September 25
4of 2024. does that date sound
5familiar? yes.
Six corrections in five lines — an unnamed speaker, a misheard word, the witness's yes buried in the attorney's turn, and no sentence caps.
VS
Stenobox — $99/mo, court-ready
← BackDeposition — draft✓ All changes saved
1Q. Okay. So my records reflect
2 that you were involved in an
3 accident on or around
4 September 25 of 2024. Does
5 that date sound familiar?
6A. Yes.
Zero. You review it and certify it.
Their text verbatim — 238 scored errors in the full hearing, both tools out of the box, checked word-for-word against the certified transcript, July 2026. See the full comparison →
$300
per month — MAXScribe® AutoTranscript
annual commitment · the unedited draft above
VS
$99
per month — Stenobox
cancel anytime · the court-ready draft above
Scored word-for-word against a certified transcript

Same hearing. Three tools. Count the errors.

98.54%
Stenobox
67 errors
96.04%
Otter
182 errors
94.82%
MAXScribe® AutoTranscript
238 errors
And the errors aren't equal. Stenobox runs two versions of every word and flags the spots where they disagree — which is where errors live — so your review finds them. MAXScribe's own low-confidence flags caught 1 of its 238 errors on this hearing.
Word accuracy on the same real hearing, each tool out of the box, scored against the certified transcript with the same method. And the number understates the gap — the others still hand you unnamed speakers and unformatted text to fix by hand.
See the full head-to-head →
THE LEARNING CURVE

Their tool comes with a course. Ours comes with a help page.

MAXScribe’s own training academy walks reporters through dozens of lessons to get from audio to a finished transcript — “Setting Up Speakers,” “Questions, Answers and Punctuation,” “Fixing Numbers,” “Including Text” (typing the title page by hand). Stenobox’s entire manual is one help page.

The incumbent's path

10 steps
1Buy the $300/month tier — on an annual commitment
2Install the desktop software and enter your license key
3Work through the training academy — dozens of lessons before the first real job
4Run the auto-transcript
5Hand-map “SPEAKER 2,” “SPEAKER 3,” and “SPEAKER 4” to real names — the draft never knows who's talking
6Fix the Q&A punctuation
7Capitalize the sentences — the draft arrives without sentence caps
8Fix the dates and numbers to court format
9Type the title page by hand — “Including Text” is its own lesson
10Type the certificate by hand
+Want to record with it too? That's the Capture tier — another $150/month, a separate 18-lesson course of its own (speaker setup, audio settings, monitoring), and your audio devices to reconfigure
Ten steps — plus a course, a desktop install, and 3.5× the errors to fix along the way.
Finish Job — Output Options–□✕
Finish jobs from:
☐ AutoArchive
☐ EDIT Practice transcripts
☑ Sample Completed Transcript
☐ Sample Transcript Deposition
☐ System Files
Subfile types:
☑ Audio
☑ Script
Print options
FinalEntire File OptionsStandard PDF DraftNone CompressedNone Sign PDFNo Encrypt PDFNo Save LocationC:\usr\DEMO
OKCancelHelpLoad Settings…Save Settings…
Illustrative recreation of the CAT-era workflow — not their actual screen.

The Stenobox path

4 steps
1Open stenobox.com — nothing to install, nothing to configure
2Upload the audio or video — or record right here; attach the caption and the names come out spelled right
3Review the flagged words — click one, hear that moment, fix it. Pedal optional
4Download the document — Word, plain text, or straight to your clipboard; title page, index, and certificate already built
Four steps, in your browser. $99 a month, cancel anytime.
The incumbent's steps are from MAXScribe's own training-academy lesson list and our July 2026 scored run of its auto-transcript, out of the box — quoted and counted on the comparison page.
01 · RECORD

Leave the room with the draft already started.

Record right in Stenobox — or upload any audio or video file after. Either way, the pipeline is the same.

A live draft while you record

  • ✓Read back any moment without stopping the record — scroll, click a word, hear it
  • ✓Share a live view with counsel — one private link they open on any device, no account needed. Transcript only, and the link stops working moments after you stop recording — or the instant you turn it off
  • ✓Your own second screen too — follow the draft from a tablet across the room
  • ✓Crash-safe — backed up every 45 seconds while it runs
  • ✓All included in the flat price — no per-minute realtime fees, ever. Capture software alone runs $150/month elsewhere
← BackLive recording
❙❙ Pause■ Stop
Recording · 00:12:07
MR. HARMON:
Counsel view
02 · DRAFT

The formatting hours? Already done.

On one real hearing, a popular transcription tool handed us 406 unnamed "Speaker" blocks to relabel by hand — before any of the real formatting started. Stenobox hands you a transcript, and a one-hour recording is usually back in under 10 minutes.

Court-formatted, not just transcribed

  • ✓Q. and A. with examination headers — direct, cross, colloquy, indented the court way
  • ✓Named speakers — MR. HARMON and THE COURT, never "Speaker 1"
  • ✓Dates, numbers, money, exhibits by the book — the conventions certified transcripts use
  • ✓Names spelled your way — attach the caption or a spelling list and Stenobox uses it; fix a name once and it's fixed everywhere
  • ✓Your verbatim style, per job — court standard, true verbatim, or clean verbatim, chosen at upload
  • ✓Nothing goes missing quietly — the draft is checked word-for-word against the raw record; anything left out is flagged with its location

Every convention here is pinned to primary sources — state manuals and certified transcripts, counted and cited — documented in our formatting guides →

← BackWhitfield_Deposition — draft✓ All changes saved
1Q. What happened after the second
2 impact?
3A. We pulled over. ⚑ The
4 other driver was already out.
5Q. Did anyone appear injured?
6A. Not that I could see.
⚑ Heard in the audio — missing from the draft
“I called 911.”
The drop check — every draft is verified word-for-word against the raw record before you see it.
03 · REVIEW

The doubtful spots find you.

You don't re-listen to the whole proceeding. Stenobox flags where it's unsure, wires every word to its moment in the audio, and keeps your hands on the keyboard.

Review — speakers✓ All changes saved
1Q. Had the light changed?
2A. It was still yellow.
3 MR. HARMON: Objection to
4 form.
⚑ Speaker check
This voice matches MS. DELGADO in the rest of the audio.
Wrong speaker, caughtA voice that doesn’t match its label gets flagged — one click fixes it.
Review — playback✓ All changes saved
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Hold the center pedal
USB pedal, or F7F9F8
signaled, and started to merge into the left lane.
Foot pedal built inHold to play, auto-backstep on release — left rewinds, right fast-forwards.
Review — video✓ All changes saved
Q. Showing you Exhibit 7, do you recognize this? A. Yes. That's my report.
● Video
00:41:12
Pop-out videoA mini player — think YouTube’s — that follows the transcript clock.
Also in the review room: click any word to hear that moment · find & replace that keeps your fixes · boost quiet voices · skip silence · dark or light theme, your choice
04 · DELIVER

Cover page to certificate in one click.

See the finished pages before you export them — then build the whole document, numbered lines and all.

Whitfield_Deposition.docx — preview
STATE OF MICHIGAN
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE
COUNTY OF KENT
_______________

JANE WHITFIELD,
Plaintiff,
v.      Case No. 26-01947-NI
MARCUS DELGADO,
Defendant.
_______________

DEPOSITION OF JANE WHITFIELD

Taken before a certified court reporter
June 9, 2026
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CERTIFICATE
Court Reporter
Title page & caption — built from your caption
Word (.docx) · Plain text (.txt / ASCII) · Copy all
The finished documentWhat actually downloads — cover page to certificate, standard or statutory layout, page numbers that hold.
No lock-in: Copy all puts the whole formatted transcript on your clipboard — finish in Word or your CAT software whenever you prefer.
Also in the box: interpreter mode · one-click Q./A. conversion · autosave · full-day multi-hour jobs · a searchable library of every transcript · keyboard shortcuts throughout — see the full feature list →

A third of their price. None of the homework.

$99/month
Unlimited transcripts · month-to-month · cancel anytime
  • ✓ Unlimited audio & video jobs — no per-minute meter
  • ✓ Full review suite: flags, click-to-audio, foot pedal
  • ✓ Word & text export with title page and certificate
  • ✓ Recorder, live draft, and live view links for counsel — no per-minute realtime fees
Do the math: per-minute tools at $0.30/minute cost more than Stenobox after about 5½ audio-hours a month — one or two depositions. A scopist runs $175 per deposition. Stenobox pays for itself with the first job.
And the price is right here on the page — no demo call, no quote, no annual contract. Start the trial yourself and run your own audio through it today.
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Who builds this

Stenobox is built by a working, certified court reporter who runs his own case audio through the same pipeline — so the formatting standards and the privacy defaults are the ones a reporter's own certificate depends on.

Only you see your workAccess is enforced at the database level, not by policy.
You control audio retention30-day deletion by default, or keep a job until you delete it.
Never reused, never soldYour material is yours. Full stop.
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MAXScribe and Stenograph are trademarks of Stenograph, L.L.C.; Otter is a trademark of its respective owner. Comparison figures from scoring identical audio against the certified transcript, every tool run as installed; method and caveats on the comparison page. MAXScribe pricing as quoted by Stenograph, June 2026 — details on the pricing page. Stenobox is not affiliated with or endorsed by either company.