Audio is a Time-Based Medium
One of the first challenges you have when faced with an audio discovery project is determining just how much content you’re dealing with. In the rest of the e-discovery world, this is measured in...
View ArticleThe Regulators are Already Tuned In…Why Aren’t You?
In the June/July issue of Executive Counsel magazine, Michael Arkfeld spells out the various reasons why companies, corporate counsel and law firms can no longer ignore the myriad forms of evidence...
View ArticleAudio Search Accuracy Part I: From Here to Utopia
The most common question I get when introducing people to audio discovery is this: how accurate is the system? It’s an understandable question…people want a generally good sense that they can find what...
View ArticleAudio Search Accuracy: Can You Wreck A Nice Beach?
In my last post, we looked at accuracy as a necessary trade-off between precision and recall. Then we explored some of the variables that exist in audio discovery that make it quite different from text...
View ArticleAudio Discovery: The Real Costs of Human Review
Two excellent reports have come out in the last year or so that address a pair of related issues: the growing costs of e-discovery, and the use of technology assisted review to help curtail those...
View ArticleAudio Discovery: What Do You Ask For?
We frequently get calls from law firms and e-discovery partners with a common thread. “Jeff, we’ve got a case coming up that’s going to have some audio that we’ll need to deal with. We don’t know much...
View ArticleShrink it Down: Technology Assisted Review in Audio Discovery
Many audio discovery projects are fairly straightforward. You may have a few hundred or a thousand hours of recorded calls or voicemails and you just need to load them all up and search through them...
View ArticleSearch Terms for Audio: Iterate Your Way to Success
We’re involved in several very high profile matters at the moment, each with thousands of hours of audio, some of it in multiple languages. And I sat through a project team meeting today where we were...
View ArticleEngland and America and The Barrier of a Common Language!
I often find myself promoting the fact that Nexidia supports more than 35 languages world wide, including different “language packs” for both American and British English. People wonder why we bother...
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Audio Search Accuracy: Getting Out of DET
I thought I’d get back to the accuracy question again, and go into a bit more detail on how we determine the overall accuracy of a phonetic search model based on the optimum trade-off between precision...
View ArticleAudio Discovery and the Importance of Meta-Data
I’ve written in the past about the importance of collecting meta-data to support your audio discovery projects, but recently this has come to light yet again as a critical component in managing the...
View ArticleDodd-Frank and Audio Discovery Requirements
I recently attended a webinar put on by the eDiscovery Journal and sponsored by Symantec. The topic of the webinar mirrored a new report called “Dodd-Frank: Information Governance and eDiscovery Next...
View ArticleSurfing the .WAVs Can Sometimes Cause a Wipeout
We’ve been involved in a couple of projects recently where there is confusion about file formats and compatibility with Windows Media Player (WMP). Specifically, one of the most common types of...
View ArticleWho’s Talking Now?
I’ve written before about the importance of meta-data when dealing with audio recordings, especially telephone recordings captured by one of the many “call loggers” that are deployed in trading floors...
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