The problem
Canadian broadcasters must keep a clear recording of their programming and produce it to the CRTC on request — commonly four weeks, and longer if there's a complaint or a Commission request. Raw programming at that scale isn't searchable, so responding to the CRTC or a complaint is slow and manual.
How Whipscribe helps
Whipscribe converts your programming into timestamped, speaker-labelled, fully searchable text, so a CRTC request or a complaint can be answered by searching for the words in question and jumping to the exact moment — with the audio staying on infrastructure you control.
Made for CRTC requests
Search your programming to locate the segment a CRTC request or complaint concerns, in seconds.
Retention you control
Keep searchable transcripts across your retention window and beyond while a complaint or request is open.
Radio & TV, one workflow
English or French, radio or television — the same fast, private transcription across your programming.
Private by design
Self-hosted Whisper means your programming is never handed to a third-party AI service.
Questions
What are the retention rules?
Canadian broadcasters must retain a clear and intelligible recording of their programming and produce it to the CRTC on request — commonly four weeks, longer if there's a complaint or Commission request. Confirm your conditions of licence and the applicable CRTC regulations; this is general information, not legal advice.
Does this meet our obligations?
Whipscribe is a transcription tool that makes your recordings searchable; it complements — not replaces — your recording and retention systems. Your obligations remain yours to meet.
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.