Criminal investigations can generate enormous amounts of evidence — bodycam and dashcam footage, interviews, interrogations, 911 calls, jail calls, police reports, witness statements, and other case documents. Sonix specializes in high accuracy for each of these mediums.
Sonix Workspaces helps investigators and legal teams bring that material together, understand what happened, and quickly trace important findings back to the original evidence.
1. Build a Workspace around the investigation
Create a Workspace for the case and bring together the evidence you want to investigate, such as:
* Bodycam and dashcam footage
* Witness, victim, and suspect interviews
* Interrogations
* 911 and dispatch recordings
* Jail and detention calls
* Police and incident reports
* Surveillance recordings
* Supporting documents
Sonix transcribes audio and video into searchable, timestamped transcripts that can be analyzed alongside the other case materials.
2. Reconstruct what happened
A good place to start is asking Sonix to build a picture of the incident from all available sources.
Try questions like:
Create a chronological timeline of the events in this case.
What happened in the 30 minutes before and after the incident?
Who was present and what does the evidence say each person was doing?
Summarize the key facts established across the evidence.
Sonix analyzes the materials together and cites the underlying sources used in its response.
3. Compare different accounts
Investigations often contain multiple versions of the same event. Use the Workspace to compare them.
For example:
Compare the accounts given by the three witnesses. Where do they agree and disagree?
Does the suspect's interview conflict with anything shown in the bodycam footage or police reports?
Identify statements that changed between the first and second interviews.
4. Follow people, places, and details across the case
Instead of manually reviewing hours of recordings, ask Sonix to trace specific information across the evidence.
Find every mention of John Smith.
Where is the blue Honda mentioned?
Find all references to a firearm.
What evidence discusses who had access to the apartment?
Find every mention of the phone number 555-5555.
This can surface connections that are spread across different recordings and documents.
5. Turn the evidence into investigative work product
Once you've explored the evidence, use the Workspace to organize what you've learned.
For example:
Prepare a witness summary for John Smith, including his key statements and any inconsistencies.
Summarize the evidence supporting and contradicting the current theory of events.
Identify unanswered questions or gaps in the investigation.
Create a case briefing covering the timeline, key people, important evidence, conflicting statements, and outstanding questions.
As new interviews, recordings, or documents arrive, add them to the same Workspace and continue investigating.
Sonix Workspaces gives your team a way to move from hundreds of individual files to a searchable, connected view of the investigation — while keeping the analysis tied to the original evidence.