The problem
Tasmania is a small, self-contained market — Hobart and Launceston plus regional coverage — often run by lean teams who still carry the same recording and complaint obligations as the mainland networks. Manual review of logger recordings isn't realistic on a small roster.
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.
Sized for a small market
Fast, private transcription that a lean Tasmanian team can run without a dedicated compliance role.
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.
Repurpose local coverage
Turn local news and interviews into web content for a Tasmanian audience.
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 worth it for a small station?
Yes — you buy minutes rather than seats, from $4 for 300 minutes, and unused credits don't expire, so you only pay for what you transcribe.
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.