Four situations most stations recognise — a regulator asking a question, a fault at three in the morning, a listener who says they can't hear you, and a moment somebody needs to find again. Here's how each one plays out.
These are illustrative walkthroughs of the product, built with example data — not accounts of named stations. Every screen and figure shown is something the system does; the station, the times and the show names are made up so we're not putting words in anyone's mouth.
The email every station dreads, usually arriving weeks after the fact. What it takes to answer it: about four minutes, and no digging through a studio machine.
Why the off-air part matters here. A playout log would have answered the same question with a file that looks perfect — even if the mux had dropped you for twenty minutes of that hour. The off-air recording is the one that shows what listeners actually got.
Overnight automation stalls. Nobody's in the building, nobody's listening closely, and on a station without off-air monitoring it runs silent until the breakfast presenter walks in.
Alerts open, acknowledge and resolve on their own. The aim is that a quiet inbox genuinely means a quiet night — not that you've learned to ignore it.
And it's evidence, not just a ping. Because the same box recorded the silence, that incident isn't only an email — it's nine minutes of off-air audio you can play back, export, and hand over if anyone ever asks what happened.
A handful of listeners say the signal breaks up somewhere east of town. Without measurements that's an anecdote. With a box on the passenger seat it's a map you can take to the multiplex operator.
A complaint, a clip for social, a quote somebody wants checked. You know roughly what was said and roughly when — which, in a 42-day archive, is normally the start of a very long afternoon.
Then play it in the browser, share a link to the exact window, or export just that stretch as a file. Nothing to download and scrub through locally.
Worth saying plainly: transcription is there to help you find things, not to make legal claims. What stands as evidence is the off-air audio itself — the transcript is the index that gets you to it.
We're onboarding beta stations now, with public sign-up opening within the next two weeks. Keen to test it against your own transmission? Get in touch.
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