The problem
Canberra's broadcast scene is shaped by national politics and the press gallery — heavy on news, current affairs, interviews, and political coverage. Producers need grabs fast and compliance needs a searchable record, but both mean listening back through recordings of a relentless news cycle.
How Whipscribe helps
Whipscribe turns your as-broadcast recordings into timestamped, speaker-labelled, fully searchable text, so a complaint or a content-review job takes minutes instead of an afternoon of scrubbing tape — with the audio staying on infrastructure you control.
Grabs from the news cycle
Search bulletins and interviews for a politician's exact words, with the timecode for the edit.
Answer complaints fast
Search the transcript for the words a complaint is about and jump to the exact moment, instead of scrubbing hours of logger audio.
Searchable current-affairs archive
Keep a full-text-searchable record of political and current-affairs output for fast recall and compliance.
Private by design
Self-hosted Whisper means your programming is never handed to a third-party AI service.
Questions
What are the retention rules?
Australian broadcasters have recording-retention obligations under the ACMA codes — generally at least six weeks, and longer while a complaint is unresolved. See our Australia compliance guide for detail, and confirm your current licence conditions and code. This is general information, not legal advice.
Is it good for a news/current-affairs operation?
Yes — fast transcription and speaker labels make it well suited to interview- and politics-heavy output, with a searchable archive of everything aired.
Where is the audio processed?
On private infrastructure with open-source Whisper — never sent to OpenAI, Google, or any external transcription service, and never used to train models.
Note: Whipscribe is a transcription tool that makes recordings searchable; it complements your recording and retention systems, it does not replace them, and nothing here is legal advice. Confirm your current obligations with your licence conditions and the applicable code.