S2|DATA – Enhanced Intelligibility of Legacy Video & Audio Recordings

The Business Situation

A legal organization needed to extract evidence from decades-old audio and video recordings that were nearly unintelligible due to poor recording quality and media degradation.

The Challenge

Recordings were captured on obsolete consumer-grade equipment
• Audio quality was severely compromised by background noise and distance
• Original media was fragile and at risk of further degradation
• Legal teams needed accurate, defensible transcriptions

The Solution

S2|DATA implemented a comprehensive restoration process:

Forensic experts carefully digitized the degraded recordings
1. Partnered with Intelligent Voice® for advanced audio processing
2. Deployed NVIDIA-powered transcription technology
3. Created navigable, time-stamped transcripts with karaoke-style alignment

The Results

Successfully recovered previously unintelligible audio
• Produced court-admissible transcriptions
• Reduced attorney review time and associated costs
• Created repeatable workflow for similar cases
• Maintained complete chain of custody

The project demonstrated S2|DATA’s ability to recover critical evidence from severely degraded legacy media while maintaining legal defensibility.