The problem
Queensland is unusually decentralised: beyond Brisbane, commercial and community stations serve a long string of regional markets up the coast and inland — the Gold and Sunshine Coasts, Cairns, Townsville, Toowoomba, Mackay, and Rockhampton. That spread means many licences, each accumulating hours of as-broadcast audio that isn't searchable.
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.
Built for a decentralised state
One workflow across Brisbane and a wide spread of regional Queensland markets, however many licences you run.
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.
Evidence local content
Search transcripts to show what local programming aired across each regional market.
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.
We run several regional licences — does that work?
Yes — pay-as-you-go with no per-seat fee means you transcribe across as many markets and licences as you need.
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.