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Liberty Recording is pleased to announce the official release of Liberty Recording Suite v9.0, the latest version of our integrated court recording, conferencing, and speech-to-text platform.


Version 9.0 builds on Liberty’s long-standing focus: helping courts capture the official record clearly, reliably, and efficiently. This release introduces a wide range of enhancements across Liberty Court Recorder, Liberty Virtual Courtroom, and supporting server components, with a particular emphasis on reducing administrative overhead in hybrid and virtual courtroom environments.


For courts managing remote appearances, virtual hearings, interpreters, private attorney-client discussions, and multi-channel recordings, v9.0 provides a more streamlined way to manage the entire proceeding from one connected platform.



Integrated Recorded Conferencing for the Modern Courtroom

Many courts still rely on separate systems for courtroom recording, video conferencing, remote participant management, and post-hearing review. While this approach can work, it often creates extra administrative burden: staff must manage multiple platforms, coordinate links, track participants manually, and ensure the final record accurately reflects what occurred.


The Liberty Recording Suite takes a different approach.

With Liberty Virtual Courtroom integrated directly into the Liberty recording workflow, remote participants can be managed as part of the proceeding itself. Audio, video, participant activity, and speech-to-text results can all be tied more closely to the official recording environment, helping reduce the number of disconnected steps court staff must manage.


In v9.0, this integrated workflow has been strengthened with improvements to participant controls, private rooms, lobby management, video spotlighting, interpreter controls, connection handling, and recording-file metadata. These updates are designed to help courts conduct virtual and hybrid hearings with less friction and more confidence.


Designed to Reduce Administrative Overhead

The v9.0 release includes several enhancements focused directly on day-to-day court administration.


Conference managers can now move participants between lobbies in real time, helping correct misrouted participants without requiring them to disconnect and rejoin through a different link. This is especially useful for courts managing multiple virtual courtrooms, high-volume dockets, or shared hearing environments.


Version 9.0 also adds configurable Case/Docket/Ticket labels, allowing each court or deployment to use terminology that matches local workflows and jurisdictional standards. Liberty Court Recorder and Liberty Virtual Courtroom automatically retrieve and display this value, reducing the need for workarounds or generic field labels.


For administrators and courtroom staff, small workflow improvements can have a large cumulative effect. Updated conference manager icons, clearer separation between conferencing users and gallery users, improved role color behavior, updated lobby login messages, and expanded customizable labels all contribute to a cleaner and more manageable experience.


Parallel Private Rooms for More Flexible Hearing Management

One of the major Liberty Virtual Courtroom enhancements in v9.0 is the addition of Parallel Private Rooms.


Managers can now conduct private conversations with participants without interrupting the active conference. Calls can take place within a private room environment, and when the private session concludes, participants can be returned to the appropriate location. This helps support workflows such as attorney-client conversations, side discussions, pre-hearing coordination, or private conversations involving court staff.


For courts, this can reduce the need for external communication tools, separate calls, or manual coordination outside the hearing platform.


More Control Over Participant Abilities

Virtual and hybrid hearings require structure. Courts need to determine who can speak, listen, chat, share screens, exchange files, or leave private rooms.


Version 9.0 introduces expanded participant ability controls, allowing conference managers to enable or disable key participant functions during a session. These include self-join, chat, screen sharing, file sharing, and the ability to leave private rooms. Screen sharing and file sharing can also be managed on a per-participant basis.


These controls give courts more flexibility to support different proceeding types while maintaining courtroom order and reducing the need for staff intervention.


Spotlight Video Feeds for Witnesses, Evidence, and Presentations

Liberty Virtual Courtroom v9.0 also adds the ability for a conference manager to spotlight a video feed for all users.


When a participant’s video feed is enlarged for all attendees, that selected feed becomes the primary view, and participants cannot override the manager’s selection. This can be especially helpful during witness testimony, evidence presentation, screen sharing, or any moment where the court needs everyone focused on the same visual source.


This feature helps keep proceedings organized and reduces confusion for remote participants.


Interpreter Controls for Multi-Language Proceedings

Courts increasingly need tools that support accessible, multi-language proceedings. In v9.0, managers can dynamically assign interpreter controls to desktop app users. Assigned interpreters gain specialized controls within their interface, helping structure interpreted proceedings without requiring external coordination tools.


This helps courts support language access needs within the same integrated environment used to manage the hearing and recording.


Improved Recording File Detail and Speech-to-Text Integration

Version 9.0 also improves how information is captured and preserved in the recording workflow.


Broadcast event logs, including mute and unmute events, can now be saved to the DCR recording file. Real-time speech-to-text results can also be included in the recording file as an attachment bookmark.


For courts reviewing proceedings after the fact, these improvements help connect the recording with supporting context, making the record easier to understand, search, and manage.


The release also improves speech-to-text channel naming by using the remote participant’s name in channel labels, creating clearer identification of speakers and remote participants within the recording environment.


Better Stability and Visibility for Remote Participants

Virtual hearing reliability remains critical. Version 9.0 includes improvements to connection stability and reporting, including automatic reconnection attempts for dropped users, improved performance for browser-based participants, and better visibility into connection quality.


These enhancements are especially important for courts working with participants who may be connecting from different devices, networks, and locations.


Built for Court Workflows, Not Generic Meetings

Liberty Recording Suite v9.0 reflects the needs of courts that require more than a standard video meeting platform.


Court proceedings involve dockets, roles, private discussions, interpreters, exhibits, remote participants, official records, and strict procedural expectations. A generic conferencing tool may handle the call, but it does not necessarily support the complete courtroom workflow.


Liberty’s integrated approach helps reduce the administrative load by bringing recording, conferencing, participant management, speech-to-text, and record-related metadata into a unified environment.


Availability

Liberty Recording Suite v9.0 is now officially available.


Courts and existing Liberty customers interested in learning more about the v9.0 release, upgrade planning, or integrated recorded conferencing workflows are encouraged to contact Liberty Recording for additional information.