Whether it’s a legal proceeding, law enforcement incident, insurance claim, corporate meeting or media event, you have a massive amount of digital recordings that need to be documented in text form.
Automated transcripts in near real time.
FirstDraft, powered by aiAssist™, quickly converts audio files to text to provide access to interviews, testimonies, recorded calls and dictations in a timely, cost-effective manner.
FirstDraft delivers the most comprehensive end-to-end workflow for single and multi-speaker environments where time and accuracy count. Audio files can be captured using MobileMic Pro™ and CapturePro™ or the files can be captured from a third-party solution and directly submitted via NetScribe Connect.
How it works.

01 Record and submit
Record and submit your audio using MobileMic Pro™ or a 3rd party solution.

02 Let us do the work
aiAssist will convert the audio to text in minutes, automatically and securely.

03 Review and edit
Open the document in Microsoft Word to make edits and save it to your computer or network.

04 Optional professional editing
Or route the machine-generated transcript to VIQ for professional editing.
With FirstDraft, the file is routed to an industry-specific, speech-to-text engine, powered by aiAssist, for quick delivery of an editable document. Once the transcripts are generated, they can be securely accessed anywhere, which maximizes your efficiency to focus on the tasks that matter most.
- Efficient: The on-demand solution creates the content you need, when and where you need it.
- Secure: Your transcriptions are secured with industrial-strength encryption, auto-purge methods, and additional protections.
- Accurate: Edit your draft document from your computer via an online portal that lets you ensure complete document accuracy.
- Simple: Search the document for specific terms quickly and easily, saving you time listening to hours of recordings.