The problem
Victoria pairs one of Australia's biggest metro markets in Melbourne with dense regional coverage across the state — Geelong, Ballarat, Bendigo, the Latrobe Valley, and the north-east. That's a lot of hours of as-broadcast audio to keep, and none of it is searchable in raw form.
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.
Melbourne metro to regional Victoria
One private, fast transcription workflow across metro and regional operations.
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 Victorian programming aired and when.
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.
Can regional Victorian stations use it too?
Yes — it's sized for lean regional teams as well as a Melbourne metro newsroom, pay-as-you-go with no per-seat fee.
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.