The problem
Irish broadcasters must keep recordings of their broadcasts and produce them on request — commonly for 90 days under the Broadcasting Act, and longer if a complaint is made. At the scale of daily output, raw recordings aren't searchable, so complaint response and regulator requests are slow and manual.
How Whipscribe helps
Whipscribe turns your broadcasts into timestamped, speaker-labelled, fully searchable text, so a complaint under the codes overseen by Coimisiún na Meán 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 complaint response
Search recordings to locate the segment a complaint concerns, in seconds instead of scrubbing tape.
Retention you control
Keep searchable transcripts across the retention window and beyond while a complaint is live; delete on your own schedule.
Radio & TV, one workflow
The same fast, private transcription across all your output, national or local.
Private by design
Self-hosted Whisper means your broadcasts are never handed to a third-party AI service.
Questions
What are the retention rules?
Irish broadcasters must keep recordings of broadcasts and produce them on request — commonly for 90 days under the Broadcasting Act, longer if a complaint is made. Confirm current requirements with Coimisiún na Meán; 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.