High Criteria Inc., today announced the availability of the Liberty Interview Recorder, V2.1.

The Liberty Interview Recorder is designed with recording features that address the needs of police and other law enforcement services. Specifically, the application records the audio, video and associated notes directly to the hard drive of a recording PC. Thereafter, the file may be managed, just as is any other data file. Integrating the interview recording with the computer environment allows the police service to leverage their existing investment in computing services and make use of current facilities for security, backup and recovery and long-term archival of the data.

The Liberty Interview system allows services to eliminate older DVR and VHS machines. The player program facilitates transcription, and the recording file may also be saved in a format that plays in Windows Media Player on an PC.

The system facilitates the addition of meta-data to the recordings. Later, this meta-data may be used as search criteria when looking for a specific recording file. Extensive search facilities are included with the application.

Among other updates, the Liberty Interview Recorder V2.1 includes the following new features:

• The ability to simultaneously record multiple cameras from a single interview room. This feature allows for the capture of multiple complete video feeds, instead of the older picture-in-a-picture approach to capturing multiple cameras. This new feature eliminates the camera overlay caused by the older picture-in-a-picture solution.
  
• The ability to temporarily remove portions of the recording for redaction purposes.
  
• The ability to burn DVDs directly out of the application using Windows DVD Maker on Windows 7 computers.
  
• The ability to playback the video as recording continues.
  
• Numerous other minor enhancements.
  

The Liberty Interview Recorder is available through local re-sellers in the United States such as JCG Technologies of Scottsdale Arizona (www.JCGTechnologies.com), Northland Business Systems of Minnesota (www.Northlandsys.com), BIS Digital Systems (www.BISDigital.com) and Audio Data Systems Inc (www.audasy.com) and directly through High Criteria Inc.

High Criteria Inc., today announced that the Liberty Recorder has successfully completed testing and has been certified by Microsoft as Compatible with the Windows 7 Operating System. This certification is the latest in a series of certifications whereby the Liberty Recorder has been tested with and certified for all three of Microsoft's most recent Operating System releases including Windows XP, Windows Vista and now Windows 7.

The Microsoft Windows certification program independently confirms that products meet or exceed a standard set of design specifications for program compatibility with the Windows operating system. Certified programs are proven to be designed and implemented according to a common set of design criteria, thereby ensuring the end user an experience consistent with other Windows designed applications.

High Criteria welcomes the certification for Windows 7 as another step in ensuring that Liberty customers receive the highest levels of programming quality with the Liberty system.

End users should consult with High Criteria or your local Liberty dealer regarding the support for various hardware components under the various Microsoft Operating Systems.

Information about the Designed for Windows Certification process may be obtained by following this link to the Microsoft web site.

Liberty Recording systems are available through local re-sellers such as JCG Technologies of Scottsdale Arizona (www.JCGTechnologies.com), Loffler Business Systems of Minnesota (www.Loffler.com), BIS Digital Systems (www.BISDigital.com) and Audio Data Systems Inc (www.audasy.com) and directly through High Criteria Inc.

The Iowa Judicial Council Committee on Digital Audio / Visual Recording Technology (DART) today released its final report on the evaluation of digital recording solutions designed to record courtroom proceedings. The committee was charged with determining if such systems could reliably capture the record inside courtrooms and thereafter, be used to create accurate transcripts of the court activity. Additionally, the committee was to determine the costs of installing and maintaining such systems in the Iowa courts.

In key findings, the committee determined that digital recording systems can reliably capture the words spoken during court proceedings and that accurate transcripts could also be created from such recordings.

The committee findings were based on evidence obtained during several pilot tests of digital recording systems, from several different vendors, including the Liberty Recording system from High Criteria.

The complete report may be obtained from the Iowa Courts website by using the link below:

Iowa DART Final Report

Liberty Recording systems are available through local re-sellers such as JCG Technologies of Scottsdale Arizona (www.JCGTechnologies.com), Loffler Business Systems of Minnesota (www.Loffler.com), BIS Digital Systems (www.BISDigital.com) and Audio Data Systems Inc (www.audasy.com) and directly through High Criteria Inc.

The Conference of State Court Administrators has released a paper on the use of digital recording systems in State Courts. The paper's first recommendation is that

"State courts should move to digital recording as the method for making the verbatim record, with the possible exceptions for complex civil and capital criminal cases where real-time or stenographic reporting are specifically designated."

The complete report may be obtained from the COSCA website by using the link below:

COSCA White Paper on Digital Recording

COSCA was established in 1955. It is dedicated to the improvement of state court systems. Its membership consists of the state court administrator or equivalent official in each of the fifty states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, and the Virgin Islands.

Liberty Recording systems are available through local re-sellers such as JCG Technologies of Scottsdale Arizona (www.JCGTechnologies.com), Loffler Business Systems of Minnesota (www.Loffler.com), BIS Digital Systems (www.BISDigital.com) and Audio Data Systems Inc (www.audasy.com) and directly through High Criteria Inc.

High Criteria Inc., today announced the availability of the Liberty Interview Recorder, V2.0.

The Liberty Interview Recorder is designed with recording features that address the needs of police and other law enforcement services. Specifically, the application records the audio, video and associated notes directly to the hard drive of a recording PC. Thereafter, the file may be managed, just as is any other data file. Integrating the interview recording with the computer environment allows the police service to leverage their existing investment in computing services and make use of current facilities for security, backup and recovery and long-term archival of the data.

The Liberty Interview system allows services to eliminate older DVR and VHS machines. The player program facilitates transcription, and the recording file may also be saved in a format that plays in Windows Media Player on an PC.

Among other updates, the Liberty Interview Recorder V2.0 includes the following new features:

• the ability to simultaneously record multiple interview rooms on a single PC
• support for a full-screen monitor view that simplifies use of the program
• support for a new prompt that standardizes the information to be collected along with the recordings
• support for a remote LED and switch. The LED confirms to a remote operator that the system is recording, and the switch can be used to start and stop the recording from a remote location.

The Liberty Interview Recorder is available through local re-sellers in the United States such as JCG Technologies of Scottsdale Arizona (www.JCGTechnologies.com), Loffler Business Systems of Minnesota (www.Loffler.com), BIS Digital Systems (www.BISDigital.com) and Audio Data Systems Inc (www.audasy.com) and directly through High Criteria Inc.

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:

• Users may attach documents to the recording files. Attached documents are imbedded into the recording file and are saved within it. Attached documents may be Word files, PDF files, image files, or any other standard Windows file.
  
• The Recorder application now supports streaming of the recording in real-time. Users may take advantage of this feature to stream the proceedings internally to staff or to a wider Internet audience. For a wider audience, implementations must make use of the Microsoft Media Server to facilitate streaming to multiple parties.
  
• Configuration options may now be imported and exported, including a separate import and export for Text Substitutions.
  
• Defaults may now be specified for any of the Docket style bookmark fields.
  
• The lists of pre-defined bookmarks may be sorted by column.
  
• Additional technical enhancements.
  

Version 6.0 of both the Liberty Recorder and the no-cost Player are available immediately. The Player may be downloaded from the High Criteria 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.