It doesn't just transcribe. It produces a draft built to the conventions of the record — then gives you the tools to verify and finish it fast.
The draft comes back structured and styled the way a transcript is supposed to look — not a raw wall of text you have to shape by hand.
Deposition, examination under oath, court hearing, or an unsworn statement — you pick it on the upload form (it’s the one required answer, because it decides Q./A. versus named labels), and the draft comes back in Q./A. from the very first question, with the title page and certificate built for that kind of proceeding.
Examination flows in proper Q./A. form; named speakers get correctly indented labels with the right spacing after each.
Zero through ten spelled out, 11 and up as numerals; dates in cardinal court format (June 9, 1990). Consistent on every page.
Double-spacing after sentence-ending punctuation; interruptions and false starts rendered with the court-standard double dash ( -- ) — the typography of the record.
Mr./Ms. normalized, “Your Honor” capitalized, and the quiet details that separate a professional transcript from a rough draft.
Court Standard keeps every word but drops “um” and “uh” the way certified transcripts do; True Verbatim preserves every sound for a strict record; Clean Verbatim also removes stutters and false starts.
Names, numbers, and testimony are where a transcript lives or dies. Stenobox gets the spellings right and shows you exactly where to listen.
Upload the case caption or a spelling sheet and add your participants; Stenobox spells party names, counsel, and proper nouns the way the record requires.
The name-spelling sheet lists every name it found. Correct one and it's fixed everywhere in the transcript — possessives included.
Tell it how many voices are in the room and who they are; it matches each speaker to your participant list instead of guessing.
Every spot worth a second listen is flagged, so your review goes straight to what matters instead of re-reading every line. Want more than the flags? Switch on the low-confidence underline and every word it wasn't fully sure of is faintly marked, so a shaky stretch shows itself at a glance.
When your edits are done, press Proofread on the editor toolbar. Stenobox reads the whole transcript as it stands and lists what looks like a reporter error — doubled words, typos, a name spelled two ways, a question and answer run together, a sentence that doesn’t read right — each a click from the audio, with a one-click fix where one is safe. It never changes your text on its own. Included in every plan.
Right-click any word, or click a line number, and the audio plays from that instant; a plain click just places your cursor, so you can edit freely. Your read-through against the recording is the audit pass.
Press play and the word being spoken lights up as you hear it, with the page scrolling to keep pace — so you read along with the record instead of hunting for your place. Turn the highlight off if you'd rather just listen.
A built-in check confirms no passage was lost in formatting, and warns you if anything looks off before you certify.
The review screen is a real editor, built so the last mile — corrections, conversions, getting it into your software — takes minutes.
When a Q./A. or speaker label looks wrong, it's flagged for you — click Change label to… to correct it, or fix a whole run of flipped Q./A. labels in a single click.
Sweep a correction across the whole transcript at once — without disturbing the uncertainty flags you still need to review.
Copy the finished transcript to your clipboard and paste it right into Word or your CAT software — one button.
Your edits save as you work, so nothing is lost if you step away mid-review — and a Save button sits right there for when you want it written now. Reopen a transcript and it returns to the page, cursor, and audio position you left.
For interpreted proceedings, keep only the English on the record — drop the foreign-language speech and format the attorney and interpreter into clean Q./A., with THE WITNESS for direct English answers.
Bring the pedal you already use with Express Scribe: hold to play with auto-backstep, rewind, and fast-forward — USB pedals connect right in the editor, and key-mode pedals just work.
Multi-hour depositions are handled, and every job lives in a searchable dashboard you can reopen, rename, and re-review anytime.
Capture the call playing on your computer, the room through a microphone, or both at once for a hybrid — and watch a rough draft form on numbered pages as people speak. Click a line and type, mark who’s speaking, drop a reporter note that stamps the time of day. Your corrections carry into the finished transcript when you Produce; recordings stay in your library until you delete them.
Share a private link and anyone you send it to can watch the rough draft form on their own device — no account, no sign-in, transcript only. The link dies when the recording stops, and you can kill it sooner.
Word (.docx), plain text, Court ASCII with the line and page numbers typed in, or a CAT job file for your CAT software — title page, appearances, contents, and your certificate included, already filled in from details you enter once.
Download any job as a CAT job file (.rtf) with word-by-word timing — Case CATalyst, Eclipse, and StenoCAT import it as a native job. The job’s audio downloads on the same screen, ready to attach with your CAT’s audio feature. Your scopist and proofreader keep the tools they already use.
You edit the printed court page itself — 25 numbered lines, real margins, page breaks where they'll actually fall. Your state’s own page is set up for you on your first sign-in (32 states have one, each built from that state’s rule), or choose the federal page or your own margins and indents under Settings; what you see is what downloads.
Drop in an MP4, MOV, MKV, and more — up to 2 GB. Stenobox extracts the audio, keeps only that, and runs the job as usual. No conversion step first.
Finished the transcript in your CAT software? Upload it (Word, RTF or text) with the audio or video and every word gets its place in the recording — click-to-hear, the foot pedal and review flags where the recording seems to differ from what was typed. Upload it alone and it opens ready to proofread. Your words are never rewritten, and imported transcripts never count against your hours.
Courtroom FTR files (.trm) won't open in a normal player — drop the whole case folder anyway. Stenobox joins the segments in the recorder's own order and reads the clerk's log sheet so names come out spelled right. No FTR Player export first.
Reviewing a video deposition? Open your local copy right in the editor — word clicks, flag jumps, and speed controls drive the video too. The video never leaves your computer.
One toggle gently levels a soft-spoken witness against a loud examiner — quiet answers come up without blasting the rest, so you stop riding the volume knob.
Dead air between questions doesn't have to be listened to in real time. Skim speeds through it — you still hear every second, just faster — and drops back to normal the instant someone speaks. Skip jumps the gap outright. Neither one will touch a stretch where a backup listen heard a word, so quiet testimony is never jumped past, and a badge tells you every time it acted.
On interpreted proceedings, the interpreter's English is the record — the foreign-language passages aren't in the transcript, but they're still in the audio. One control fast-forwards through them, or skips them outright, landing just before the next transcribed words. Any passage that carries a review flag always plays at normal speed.
A clipboard history of everything you've copied in this transcript — click any item to drop it at your cursor. And real line alignment: center the witness's name or an EXAMINATION heading and it's centered with actual spaces, so the downloaded document sits exactly where the screen showed it.
While you record, Stenobox is continuously backing the audio up — staying within about a minute of live, and catching up on its own if your connection drops. If the tab closes, the laptop dies, or the power goes, the next time you open Stenobox a banner offers to recover the session: audio, rough draft, speaker names, and your marks. The file on your own computer is a second, independent copy.
Sign up and run a real job through Stenobox — your transcript, your standards. From $129/month with unlimited recording and 25 audio hours of finished transcripts ($199 for 50, $349 for 100), 7-day free trial.