I got a dump of 30 jail calls.
You get a discovery dump with 30 jail calls. There's no transcript, no index, and no quick way to know which conversations matter. Here's how to work through a dump like this using Reduct.
Find what each call contains with a quick summary
Before opening a single call, run all 30 through Batch Summarize. Instead of guessing which calls are worth your time, you get a summary of every call up front with verifiable points linking to the exact moments.
You can immediately see which calls are just check-ins with family, which ones touch on the case, and which ones need a closer look.
You can get your summaries in these formats:
- Chronological (by time),
- Thematic (by topic), or
- Custom (by your specific questions)
You can get a custom summary to find statements about where the defendant was on a specific date, or only the exchanges involving a specific person. It is useful when the case has a working theory, so the batch gets filtered through that theory.
Search across all 30 calls at once
Once you know roughly what's in the calls, search across all of them for the specifics your case theory depends on: a codefendant's name, a street address, a phrase like "corner store guy" or "prison."
A case theory is only as strong as the facts that back it up, and those facts are usually scattered across calls you haven't gotten to yet.
Reduct's search runs across every recording in the batch, so you don't have to open each file to hunt for a single keyword. Fuzzy search also catches close variations and related words, useful when a name gets mispronounced or a term comes up phrased differently than expected.
This is where you catch the detail buried in call number 24 that mentions your client's alibi, without having to sit through the 23 before it. Even one mention in a call can confirm or break the theory you're building.
Highlight and label the moments that matter
As you move through the calls, highlight anything relevant: an admission, a mention of a witness, a reference to a specific place, a statement that contradicts the police report. Assign the highlighted section a label, such as Alibi, Co-defendant, Timeline, etc., so it's sorted as you go.
You can also add comments to your highlights. For example, flagging that a date needs to be verified or that a name needs a second listen.
Each highlight stays tied to the exact moment in the recording, so you can jump straight back to it later without re-searching. And because it's labeled at the same time, you can filter the whole batch down to just what you need, all the "alibi" moments across every call, or every "codefendant" mention, instead of scrolling back through everything to find them again.
You can group your labels by category, like Witness, and color-code to distinguish different labels. The same labels and highlights can be pulled up together later, without re-listening to the calls.
Ask the recordings a direct question
For any call worth a closer look, ask it a specific question instead of scrubbing through the audio.
Asking "Did the client mention where they were that night?" or "What time do they say they left the laundromat?" gets you a direct answer pulled from that recording, so you're not replaying the same ten minutes trying to catch one line.
This matters most on the calls with poor audio quality or heavy crosstalk, where skimming a transcript is slower than just asking.
Build reels and share them
You may want to pull all your "alibi" highlights, or every clip tagged "codefendant," and drag them straight into a reel.
You can combine highlights from different calls into one sequence, cut out dead air or crosstalk, and arrange them in whatever order tells the story you need to tell.
When you're ready to use it, export the reel or share it as a link.
Get to the part that needs your legal judgment faster
30 jail calls used to mean hours of work before you even got to the part that actually needs a lawyer's judgment. Whether the batch is 30 calls or 1000 calls, you can use this same workflow:
- Batch summarize all calls to get a first read.
- Search across recordings for names, dates, and key terms.
- Ask specific calls direct questions to find the moment that is buried.
- Highlight relevant sections as you go.
- Label individual calls and each highlight so the batch stays organized.
- Create reels to share/download specific sections of the calls.