Notes on legal transcript work, product updates, and the HeyDonna public beta.https://heydonna.law/https://heydonna.law/blog/posts/transcript-format-federal-florida-washington/https://heydonna.law/blog/posts/transcript-format-federal-florida-washington/Lines, characters and Q/A indents under the federal format, Florida Rule 2.535 and Washington RAP 9.2, plus a poll: which format trips you up most?Fri, 30 Oct 2026 13:00:00 GMThttps://heydonna.law/blog/posts/benchmarking-nemotron-on-legal-files/https://heydonna.law/blog/posts/benchmarking-nemotron-on-legal-files/Nemotron found 17% of legal terms on our deposition bench at first. Most of that was number formatting. How it compares with AssemblyAI and WhisperX.Thu, 29 Oct 2026 04:40:00 GMThttps://heydonna.law/blog/posts/deposition-transcript-format-by-state/https://heydonna.law/blog/posts/deposition-transcript-format-by-state/New York, Texas and California compared: lines per page, characters per line and the format box, plus what to ask a new client first.Tue, 27 Oct 2026 13:00:00 GMThttps://heydonna.law/blog/posts/words-before-punctuation/https://heydonna.law/blog/posts/words-before-punctuation/One Record Test Bench run scored 13.1% normalized proofread WER. Removing case and punctuation shrinks the measured error. It does not fix the words.Mon, 26 Oct 2026 13:00:00 GMThttps://heydonna.law/blog/posts/format-new-york-transcript-25-lines-a-page/https://heydonna.law/blog/posts/format-new-york-transcript-25-lines-a-page/What 22 NYCRR Part 108 says about 25 numbered lines, plus a Word setup checklist for type, spacing and line numbers.Fri, 23 Oct 2026 12:43:00 GMThttps://heydonna.law/blog/posts/speaker-turns-qa-colloquy-what-ai-gets-wrong/https://heydonna.law/blog/posts/speaker-turns-qa-colloquy-what-ai-gets-wrong/Four places AI still mislabels speaker turns and Q/A in depositions, a quick audio check for each, and how to fix labels in the HeyDonna editor.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 13:00:00 GMThttps://heydonna.law/blog/posts/who-said-the-words/https://heydonna.law/blog/posts/who-said-the-words/Speaker tracking is our users' biggest complaint. Compare the published speaker-name scores for Gemini, GPT-6.1 Sol and Claude Sonnet 5.5.Wed, 21 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://heydonna.law/blog/posts/record-test-bench/https://heydonna.law/blog/posts/record-test-bench/The Record Test Bench is live. Audio full-chain results: legal-structure F1 53.7%, speaker-name accuracy 63.9%, best verbatim WER 20.2%.Mon, 19 Oct 2026 13:00:00 GMThttps://heydonna.law/blog/posts/crosstalk-inaudible-tagging-checklist/https://heydonna.law/blog/posts/crosstalk-inaudible-tagging-checklist/Review unclear deposition audio without guessing. Choose the required tag, insert it in HeyDonna, and check every marker before delivery.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMThttps://heydonna.law/blog/posts/objection-shortcuts/https://heydonna.law/blog/posts/objection-shortcuts/Set up /obf in Tools → Editor Settings → Snippets, insert an objection phrase, and check its wording against the audio.Sat, 17 Oct 2026 15:08:30 GMThttps://heydonna.law/blog/posts/asr-vs-genai/https://heydonna.law/blog/posts/asr-vs-genai/Speech recognition and generative AI do different jobs. Learn what to check before accepting an edit, and where Donna can help.Fri, 16 Oct 2026 13:00:00 GMThttps://heydonna.law/blog/posts/practicing-the-edit-pass-free-mock-deposition/https://heydonna.law/blog/posts/practicing-the-edit-pass-free-mock-deposition/A short fictional deposition for digital reporters to practice listening, checking, reviewing edits and formatting.Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://heydonna.law/blog/posts/will-ai-replace-court-reporters/https://heydonna.law/blog/posts/will-ai-replace-court-reporters/AI drafts fast, but the record is the last stretch of errors: accents, other languages, bad audio, speakers, verbatim, style guides. Why humans stay.Thu, 15 Oct 2026 13:00:00 GMThttps://heydonna.law/blog/posts/how-to-create-a-transcript-template/https://heydonna.law/blog/posts/how-to-create-a-transcript-template/Stop retyping headers and certificate pages. Build a reusable transcript template once: upload a .docx, place the transcript placeholder, set page rules.Mon, 12 Oct 2026 13:00:00 GMThttps://heydonna.law/blog/posts/meet-donna/https://heydonna.law/blog/posts/meet-donna/Donna is HeyDonna's AI assistant, openly an AI and never the reporter. Here is who she is, how she looks and sounds, and how we designed her.Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:30:00 GMThttps://heydonna.law/blog/posts/public-beta/https://heydonna.law/blog/posts/public-beta/A transcript editor for legal transcribers, built by a team of AI agents. The public beta is open, with 2,500 free credits to start.Sat, 26 Sep 2026 01:15:00 GMT