--- title: Why a Better Official Record Starts with More Than Audio description: Discover how ASGARD EDGE combines evidential audio with microphone-based metadata to create a richer, more useful official record for modern courts. image: https://content.redfishtechnologies.com.au/hubfs/1200%20x%20630%20HubSpot%20Hero%20Image.png --- [Skip to content](https://content.redfishtechnologies.com.au/news-and-insights/why-a-better-official-record-starts-with-more-than-audio#main-content) [![Redfish Technologies Logo](https://content.redfishtechnologies.com.au/hubfs/Redfish%20Technologies%20Logo%20Colour%20Black.svg)Homepage](https://redfishtechnologies.com.au) - [What we do](https://redfishtechnologies.com.au/what-we-do/) - [Audio](https://redfishtechnologies.com.au/what-we-do/audio/) - [Vision](https://redfishtechnologies.com.au/what-we-do/vision/) - [Recording Systems](https://redfishtechnologies.com.au/what-we-do/recording-systems/) - [Security and CCTV](https://redfishtechnologies.com.au/what-we-do/cctv-solutions/) - [Consultancy and Design](https://redfishtechnologies.com.au/what-we-do/consultancy-design/) - [Live Streaming](https://redfishtechnologies.com.au/what-we-do/live-streaming/) - [Video Conferencing](https://redfishtechnologies.com.au/what-we-do/video-conferencing/) - [Control Systems](https://redfishtechnologies.com.au/what-we-do/control-systems/) - [Markets](https://redfishtechnologies.com.au/markets/) - [Justice](https://redfishtechnologies.com.au/markets/justice/) - [Local Government](https://redfishtechnologies.com.au/markets/local-government/) - [Law Enforcement](https://redfishtechnologies.com.au/markets/law-enforcement/) - [Parliaments and Assemblies](https://redfishtechnologies.com.au/markets/parliament-and-assemblies/) - [Corporate](https://redfishtechnologies.com.au/markets/corporate-sector/) - [Who We Are](https://redfishtechnologies.com.au/who-we-are/) - [Support](https://redfishtechnologies.com.au/what-we-do/support-training/) - [Resources](https://redfishtechnologies.com.au/documents/) - [News](https://redfishtechnologies.com.au/news/) - [Contact](https://redfishtechnologies.com.au/contact/) - [What we do](https://redfishtechnologies.com.au/what-we-do/) - [Audio](https://redfishtechnologies.com.au/what-we-do/audio/) - [Vision](https://redfishtechnologies.com.au/what-we-do/vision/) - [Recording Systems](https://redfishtechnologies.com.au/what-we-do/recording-systems/) - [Security and CCTV](https://redfishtechnologies.com.au/what-we-do/cctv-solutions/) - [Consultancy and Design](https://redfishtechnologies.com.au/what-we-do/consultancy-design/) - [Live Streaming](https://redfishtechnologies.com.au/what-we-do/live-streaming/) - [Video Conferencing](https://redfishtechnologies.com.au/what-we-do/video-conferencing/) - [Control Systems](https://redfishtechnologies.com.au/what-we-do/control-systems/) - [Markets](https://redfishtechnologies.com.au/markets/) - [Justice](https://redfishtechnologies.com.au/markets/justice/) - [Local Government](https://redfishtechnologies.com.au/markets/local-government/) - [Law Enforcement](https://redfishtechnologies.com.au/markets/law-enforcement/) - [Parliaments and Assemblies](https://redfishtechnologies.com.au/markets/parliament-and-assemblies/) - [Corporate](https://redfishtechnologies.com.au/markets/corporate-sector/) - [Who We Are](https://redfishtechnologies.com.au/who-we-are/) - [Support](https://redfishtechnologies.com.au/what-we-do/support-training/) - [Resources](https://redfishtechnologies.com.au/documents/) - [News](https://redfishtechnologies.com.au/news/) - [Contact](https://redfishtechnologies.com.au/contact/) ![Asgard Edge Interface](https://content.redfishtechnologies.com.au/hs-fs/hubfs/1200%20x%20630%20HubSpot%20Hero%20Image.png?width=1200&height=631&name=1200%20x%20630%20HubSpot%20Hero%20Image.png) Justice recording systems Court recording systems digital justice # Why a Better Official Record Starts with More Than Audio ![Stuart Herring](https://content.redfishtechnologies.com.au/hs-fs/hubfs/Stuart%20Herring%201500px.jpeg?width=48&height=48&name=Stuart%20Herring%201500px.jpeg) Stuart Herring October 21, 2026 ### **A Richer Official Record. Captured at the Core.** For courts, tribunals, commissions and parliamentary environments, creating the official record is one of the most important responsibilities in the room. But creating the record involves far more than simply recording sound. The record must be reliably captured, easy to review, suitable for transcription, and capable of moving efficiently into storage, access and records management workflows. An audio file alone is only part of the story. A truly useful official record also needs context. ASGARD EDGE captures evidential audio and microphone-based metadata directly within the Q-SYS Core, helping courts and hearing organisations create an official record that is easier to capture, navigate, review and use downstream. This is where ASGARD EDGE offers a different approach. ### **The Challenge: Creating a Useful Official Record** Every proceeding generates large volumes of audio. Capturing that audio accurately is essential, but the record's ongoing value depends on what happens afterwards. Authorised users may need to: - Review specific sections of the proceedings - Locate key moments within long recordings - Prepare recordings for transcription - Manage access to recordings - Store and retain records in accordance with organisational requirements ### **Why Integration Matters** In many modern courtrooms and hearing rooms, Q-SYS already manages and processes audio from microphones throughout the environment. Traditionally, recording has been treated as a separate function operating alongside the courtroom audio system. [ASGARD EDGE](https://content.redfishtechnologies.com.au/asgard-edge-court-recording-redfish-technologies) extends the existing [Q-SYS](https://content.redfishtechnologies.com.au/q-sys-control-platform-redfish-technologies) environment to include evidential recording and automated microphone-based annotation, bringing recording and contextual information together within the same ecosystem. This means audio and metadata are created together as proceedings are captured, helping organisations produce a more useful official record for review, transcription and downstream workflows. Rather than introducing a separate recording environment, ASGARD EDGE integrates recording into the broader courtroom technology architecture. For organisations that have standardised on Q-SYS, this creates a recording solution that is closely aligned with the way the room already operates.  ### **Creating More than an Audio File** The distinguishing value of ASGARD EDGE is not simply that it records audio. As proceedings are captured, configured microphone activity can automatically generate timestamped metadata. This creates contextual information alongside the recording, helping build a richer source record. Rather than producing only an audio file, ASGARD EDGE creates a record that combines: - Evidential audio - Timestamped microphone-activity metadata - Context that supports review and navigation - Information that can assist downstream workflows ### **What Court Decisionmakers Need to Consider** A court recording decision must satisfy more than a technical specification. It needs to support the integrity of the official record, fit the organisation’s operating model and provide a credible path from implementation through to long-term use. - **Court and organisational leaders:** consider reliability, continuity of operations, governance, authorised access and how effectively the record supports service delivery over time. - **Technology and IT managers:** validate alignment with the existing Q-SYS environment, integration dependencies, security, support, storage and records-management architecture. - **Procurement teams:** assess solution fit, implementation scope, interoperability, supplier capability, lifecycle requirements and the evidence needed to support a defensible purchasing decision. ### **Operational and Strategic Benefits for Courts** **Easier Review and Navigation** Timestamped activity markers provide useful reference points throughout the recording, helping authorised users move through proceedings more efficiently. **Improved Context** Configured microphone activity generates metadata as proceedings occur, providing additional context alongside the recorded audio and helping create a more contextualised record. **Support for Transcription Workflows** Recorded audio is accompanied by structured microphone-activity metadata, creating a more transcription-ready source record for compatible human and technology-assisted transcription workflows. **Flexible Downstream Use** The resulting record is designed to support review, playback, storage, transcription and compatible records-management workflows. **Part of a Connected Workflow** The official record does not end when proceedings conclude. ASGARD EDGE focuses on creating the record during capture. [TheRecordXchange (TRX)](https://content.redfishtechnologies.com.au/therecordxchange-court-record-management-redfish-technologies) can then help authorised organisations transcribe, access and manage that record beyond the courtroom. Together, they support a connected workflow from capture through to ongoing access and management. Within the broader Redfish Technologies portfolio, ASGARD EDGE sits alongside [Liberty Court Recorder](https://content.redfishtechnologies.com.au/asgard-edge-court-recording-redfish-technologies). Rather than replacing every recording architecture, it provides another option for organisations seeking a Q-SYS-native approach to evidential recording and annotation.  ### **The Redfish Technologies Difference** Technology is only part of the equation. Redfish Technologies helps courts, tribunals and government organisations assess their environment, understand workflow requirements, and determine the recording architecture best suited to their needs. This includes consideration of recording, transcription, access, storage and long-term records management requirements. The goal is simple: the right recording architecture for the right environment. ### **Creating a More Useful Official Record** The value of a recording system is not measured solely by its ability to capture audio. It is measured by how effectively the resulting record can be reviewed, navigated, transcribed and used throughout its lifecycle. By combining evidential audio with automatically generated microphone-based metadata, ASGARD EDGE helps organisations create a more contextualised and useful official record. The result is a record that supports efficient review, transcription and downstream records-management workflows while fitting naturally within Q-SYS-based courtroom environments. #### Explore ASGARD EDGE with Redfish Technologies **Looking to create a richer, more useful official record?** Redfish Technologies combines ASGARD EDGE with specialist court recording and integration expertise to deliver a Q-SYS-native solution aligned with your recording, transcription and records-management workflows. Whether you're planning a new courtroom, refreshing an existing environment or reviewing your approach to evidential recording, talk to Redfish Technologies about whether ASGARD EDGE is the right fit for your requirements. [**Explore ASGARD EDGE with Redfish Technologies**](https://content.redfishtechnologies.com.au/asgard-edge-court-recording-redfish-technologies) #### Learn more about ASGARD EDGE Want to explore the technology in more detail? 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