Thank You for a Great Year
As we wind down 2024, we would like to thank our loyal customers and partners for another successful year.  We could not ask for a better family of Law Enforcement, Border Security, Child Advocacy, and Judicial System Members to be associated with.  You make our day better and are the heart of what makes this country such a blessing. Thank you!

NEW!!  TRANSCRIPTION SERVICE from Microsoft 365
From Microsoft:
Transcribe is one of Microsoft's Office Intelligent Services, bringing the power of the cloud to Office apps to help save you time and produce better results. The Transcribe feature in Word for desktop requires optional connected experiences to function properly.
Note: This feature is currently only available in Word for Microsoft 365 on Windows in Commercial Tenants. Transcription for Government tenants is only available for Word for the web.
Your audio files are sent to Microsoft and used only to provide you with this service. When the transcription is done your audio and transcription results are not stored by our service.  For more information see Connected Experiences in Office.

HOW TO TRANSCRIBE AUDIO
The transcribe feature converts speech to a text transcript with each speaker individually separated. After your conversation, interview, or meeting, you can revisit parts of the recording by playing back the timestamped audio and edit the transcription to make corrections. You can save the full transcript as a Word document or insert snippets of it into existing documents.
You can transcribe speech in two ways: 

• Record directly in Word
• Upload an audio file

FOR DETAILED INSTRUCTION FOLLOW THIS LINK

2025 EVENT CALENDAR
​2025 is going to be an exciting year for StarWitness.  We are building up our show schedule and hope to see you at the following shows. Come see us and learn what's new.
 
If you can't make it: We would love to give you a chance to see our products in action and send you some giveaways from our events. We offer online demos every day of the week to go over our interview recording solutions. Register for a demo​

• 2025 RISS Western Region Human Trafficking Summit, April 20-24, 2025, San Diego, CA
• ANOA 37th Annual Training Conference + Vendor Show, July 21-24, 2025, Phoenix, AZ
• NATIA, August 3-7, 2025, Milwaukee, WI

Product News

​Interview Room Upgrade
The StarWitness Team is pleased to continue to offer our Interview Room PC Upgrade package for 2024. that includes a new Windows PC with the latest specifications and a new three-year on-site PC warranty.  The new system will be compatible with your current equipment - no need to rewire.
For details on the Interview Room PC Upgrade, click here.

The main objective of a interrogation is to make the suspect admit to a crime or speak the truth. But the questioning process can be quite complex and might lead the suspect astray from confessing. Louis Sense, Chief Polygraph Examiner and Vice President of John E. Reid and Associates, Inc, recommends these 5 tactics to a successful interrogation.

1. Case facts and motive
2. The suspect’s statements during the interview
3. Common sense
4. Prior similar case experiences
5. Training and education

To see an example cases and these themes in action, read more here.

Our guide, Getting the most out of your interview room recording equipment, offers easy improvements on everything from furniture arrangement to sound proofing in your interview room. These upgrades to your room can improve speech intelligibility and help you get the best picture quality possible with your interview room recording systems.

Download the guide