High Criteria Inc, a world leader in computer audio recording systems, today announced the immediate availability of an updated version of the Liberty Court Recording system for recording courtroom and other legal proceedings. The Liberty Court Recorder is a digital recording application that runs on a PC or laptop and records multiple audio channels directly to the computer hard drive.

The Liberty System offers an economical alternative for those wanting to move away from tape systems such as the Sony BM 246 and incorporate the benefits of a digital audio recording system into the courtroom.

Enhancements in this release include:

• When predefined bookmarks are used, there is a visual indication that the bookmark has been used.
  
• Improvements to the Predefined Bookmarks window including the ability to append a number of pre-defined bookmark files, the ability to high-light pre-defined bookmarks with colors, and the ability to move pre-defined bookmarks up and down in the list.
  
• Improvements to the Text Substitution facility including the ability to move the substitutions up and down in the list, and a menu that allows you to perform all actions using a menu selection.
  
• Support for special characters and symbols in the fields used for bookmarks and dockets.
  
• In the Liberty Player, a selection panel has been added to the main Liberty Court Player window. On this panel, you can use a slider and other controls to select part of a recording. This is particularly useful when you want to export only part of a file.
  
• Again, in the Liberty Player, online playback allows you to play back a file as it is being mirrored.
  
• And a range of other features including reliability and availability enhancements were introduced.
  

Version 4.5 of both the Liberty Recorder and the no-cost Player are immediately available. The no-cost Liberty Player may be downloaded from the Liberty web site at www.LibertyRecording.com.

Portable configurations suitable for use with a laptop computer are also available.

Please contact High Criteria at sales@LibertyRecording.com for further details.

High Criteria Inc., today announced that a number of Provincial Offence Courts (POA Courts) in the Province of Ontario have chosen the Liberty Court Recording system to replace their current tape based recording systems. The POA Courts that have moved to digital recording include:

• The City of Peterborough Provincial Offences Court
• The Municipality of Chatham-Kent Provincial Offences Court
• The United Counties of Stormont, Dundas & Glengarry (Cornwall) Provincial Offences Court
• The Halton Region Provincial Offences Court
• The City of Kingston Provincial Offences Court
• The Owen Sound and Walkerton Provincial Offences Courts
• The City of Brantford Provincial Offences Court
• The County of Elgin Provincial Offences Court
• The District of Muskoka Provincial Offences Court
• The County of Oxford Provincial Offences Court
• The City of Kawartha Lakes Provincial Offences Court
• The County of Lambton at Sarnia Provincial Offences Court
• The County of Hastings Provincial Offences Court

The Liberty Recording System is the ideal application to replace existing tape based audio recording devices. With the Liberty application, the audio is saved to a standard Windows file on the hard-drive of the PC. Moving to a digital system like the Liberty Recorder eliminates the problems regarding the management of tapes associated with older, tape based systems.

High Criteria Inc, a world leader in computer audio recording systems, today announced the immediate availability of an updated version of the Liberty Court Recording system for recording courtroom and other legal proceedings. The Liberty Court Recorder is a digital recording application that runs on a PC or laptop and records multiple audio channels directly to the computer hard drive.

The Liberty System offers an economical alternative for those wanting to move away from tape systems such as the Sony BM 246 and incorporate the benefits of a digital audio recording system into the courtroom.

Enhancements in this release include:

• The ability to "Seal" all or part of a recording file. The Seal function allows sites to add an extra level of protection to recording files. The Seal facility is invoked with the click of a button. Only authorized users will have access to recordings that are sealed.
  
• The Liberty Network Monitor program has been introduced. The Network Monitor allows authorized operators to monitor, control and make notes for up to 4 courtrooms at one time. The audio and video from each courtroom is available to the operator. The Network Monitor can be used by reporters in Control Room setups where one reporter is responsible for recording and monitoring multiple courtrooms.
  
• The ability to change the columns that are displayed, their titles, and the order in which they appear when working with bookmarks, dockets, and predefined bookmarks, in the Liberty Recorder and when using Definition Editor.
  
• Support for a full-screen view that makes it easier for operators using a touch screen monitor.
  
• An audible alert may be generated when sound levels are absent in all channels. This alert can be used to inform the operator in the case of a problem with the audio system.
  
• A thin view has been introduced for the Liberty Player application.
  
• And a range of other features including reliability and availability enhancements were introduced.
  

Version 4.4 of both the Liberty Recorder and the no-cost Player are immediately available. The Liberty Player may be downloaded at no cost from the Liberty web site at www.LibertyRecording.com.

Portable configurations suitable for use with a laptop computer are also available.

Please contact High Criteria at sales@LibertyRecording.com for further details.

High Criteria Inc., today announced that the Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) for the State of North Carolina had acquired an additional 196 copies of its Liberty Court Recorder product to replace tape based courtroom recording systems in the State courts. These 196 systems are in addition to the 144 systems purchased one year ago and bring the total number of Liberty systems purchased by the State to 340.

This additional purchase reflects the satisfaction of the State with the Liberty application.

The Liberty Recording system is available through local re-sellers throughout the United States such as Audio Data Systems Inc (www.audasy.com), Loffler Business Systems of Minnesota (www.Loffler.com), and BIS Digital Systems (www.BISDigital.com) and directly through High Criteria Inc. Please see the Liberty Recording website (www.LibertyRecording.com) for more information.

High Criteria Inc, a world leader in computer audio recording systems, today announced the immediate availability of an updated version of the Liberty Court Recording system for recording courtroom and other legal proceedings. The Liberty Court Recorder is a digital recording application that runs on a PC or laptop and records multiple audio channels directly to the computer hard drive.

The Liberty System offers an economical alternative for those wanting to move away from tape systems such as the Sony BM 246 and incorporate the benefits of a digital audio recording system into the courtroom.

Enhancements in this release include:

• Support for the pre-definition of bookmark information. The Liberty system allows users to "bookmark" points in the audio recording file. The bookmarks may contain any amount of text data. This new facility allows users to create the bookmarks, at any time before the court goes into session. Any amount of pre-defined bookmarks may be created. This facility allows the user to pre-type any information, before court begins.
  
• Enhanced search facilities allow the user to search for any text strings across multiple files. This new facility uses the Microsoft Index Server. Using the Index Server allows the text information in the recording files to be indexed. Instead of searching through all of the audio data for text strings, the Index Server becomes a database system that only searches through the relevant text information.
  
• Channels may now be assigned two-character channel names, to replace channel numbers.
  
• When docket bookmarks are used, each docket or case can automatically become a separate audio file.
  
• A new View supports a Speaker column in the bookmarks area.
  
• A range of fonts and font sizes may now be used in the bookmark Windows.
  
• Automatic Gain Control (AGC) has been added to the Liberty Player.
  
• A pop-up alert has been added to notify the operator, should the recording levels fall below a defined baseline. This feature would alert the operator to any type of hardware malfunction.
  
• And a range of other features including reliability and availability enhancements were introduced.
  

Version 4.3 of both the Liberty Recorder and the no-cost Player are immediately available and may be downloaded for evaluation and purchased from the Liberty web site at www.LibertyRecording.com.

Portable configurations suitable for use with a laptop computer are also available.

Please contact High Criteria at sales@LibertyRecording.com for further details.