Need 11,000 pages worth of audio in a format acceptable to present in court

[beyondweb]

What is the name of your state? CA

I have hours upon hours of audio that I need put in a format that will be acceptable for court.

I imagine that it should be transcribed. Does it have to be transcribed by someone special? If so, who? A paralegal?

Any way it would be acceptable if I did it myself (to save on $$)?

Essentially, I need it to be completely official and in the proper format for court. I need for the judge or anyone in court to look at the document and consider it the absolute truth (since it will be a word for word transcription of the audio). They will have access to the audio but it will literally take up about 11,000 pages and I seriously doubt anyone will waste their time listening to it.

 

[You Are Guilty]

What is the name of your state? CA

I have hours upon hours of audio that I need put in a format that will be acceptable for court.

I imagine that it should be transcribed. Does it have to be transcribed by someone special? If so, who? A paralegal?

Any way it would be acceptable if I did it myself (to save on $$)?

Essentially, I need it to be completely official and in the proper format for court. I need for the judge or anyone in court to look at the document and consider it the absolute truth (since it will be a word for word transcription of the audio). They will have access to the audio but it will literally take up about 11,000 pages and I seriously doubt anyone will waste their time listening to it.

I have bad news for you - they won't read it either.

 

[HomeGuru]

Do not waste your time and money and the court's time.

 

[CJane]

Do not waste your time and money and the court's time.

Also, just for a sanity check... that's more than 100lbs of paper. Everyone will hate you.

 

[Ozark_Sophist]

Why? Even at a paltry $50 a page, you are looking at $550,000.

 

[HomeGuru]

Why? Even at a paltry $50 a page, you are looking at $550,000.

**A: the value of trees destroyed is priceless.

 

[Ozark_Sophist]

**A: the value of trees destroyed is priceless.

Add the value of the rivers the bleaching process contaminates.

 

[VeronicaLodge]

I would rather listen to it than read 11,000 pages of it!

 

[HomeGuru]

I would rather listen to it than read 11,000 pages of it!

**A: not me. I'll read the Cliff's Notes.

 

[Ozark_Sophist]

**A: not me. I'll read the Cliff's Notes.

Even at one word from each page of transcription, one would still be reading 36 to 40 pages at 12pt font.

 

[Silverplum]

So, poster, you can see that no one is interested in reading OR listening to 11,000 pages. Better figure out how to summarize.

 

[HomeGuru]

Even at one word from each page of transcription, one would still be reading 36 to 40 pages at 12pt font.

**A: ok, I'll read the one page summary of the Cliff's.

 

[Zigner]

**A: ok, I'll read the one page summary of the Cliff's.

Good, then you should be able to boil it down to about 1 sentence...and *I* will happily read that!

 

[Ohiogal]

Why do you think it is relevant? How do you know that the audio would transcribe to 11000 pages? What type of case is it for?

 

[HomeGuru]

Why do you think it is relevant? How do you know that the audio would transcribe to 11000 pages? What type of case is it for?

**A: the dictator talks real slow so there would be a lot of white space between the words.