--- title: "Legal dictation: notes, summaries and letters dictated in the language of the law" description: "Legal dictation for client notes, case summaries and first drafts: TechVoice transcribes, corrects legal terms and remembers your fixes. Free trial." url: "https://techvoice.fr/en/legal-dictation" language: "en" updated: "2026-11-09" --- # Legal dictation: notes, summaries and letters dictated in the language of the law Client meeting notes, hearing reports, case summaries, first drafts of letters: dictate them. TechVoice writes legal terms, references and Latin phrases the way you use them, and remembers every correction. **Legal terms it learns to get right** — in limine litis, ultra vires, res judicata, estoppel, force majeure, without prejudice, fin de non-recevoir, mise en demeure The law is written with a precision that general-purpose dictation cannot match: Latin phrases, references to articles, procedural terms, proper names. One misrecognised word, and you are rewriting a whole sentence. TechVoice transcribes what you dictate, corrects the terms of your area of law using your own vocabulary and remembers every correction. It works in French and in English. ## Legal terminology: a trap for general-purpose dictation A speech recognition model favours the words it has heard most often. Latin phrases such as *in limine litis* or *ultra petita*, and French procedural terms such as *fin de non-recevoir*, are rare in that material: when the sound is ambiguous, it writes an everyday word that sounds similar. References such as *article 700 du Code de procédure civile* (French civil procedure) and proper names pose the same problem. Fixing these errors one by one, in every dictation, ends up costing more time than dictation saves. The only lasting answer is a tool that learns. ## TechVoice learns your terms On top of speech recognition, TechVoice adds a correction step that knows your vocabulary, built from three sources: 1. **Your area of practice.** Entered when you sign up, it is used to look up its terms in the scientific literature of the HAL open archive, in the language you dictate in. 2. **Your sample documents.** Upload letters, written submissions or notes (PDF, Word): TechVoice extracts the terms, then forgets the text. 3. **Your corrections.** Every word you fix becomes a “misheard → correct” pair, applied to your next dictations. Everything TechVoice has learned can be viewed and edited in the Memory tab. The mechanism is explained in detail in [our article on how AI voice dictation works](https://techvoice.fr/en/blog/how-ai-dictation-works). ## True to what you dictate TechVoice’s correction only touches misheard words: it adds nothing, removes nothing and rewords nothing. An automatic check compares the corrected text with the recognised text, word by word and in order; if too much has changed, the raw transcript is kept. Every change stays visible, and you always review a text before using it. ## What you can dictate - **Client meeting notes**, dictated straight after the appointment. - **Notes of hearings and meetings**, dictated as you leave, or transcribed from a recording. - **Case summaries and internal memos**, filed in folders and easy to find again with search. - **First drafts of letters and emails**: one-click formatting turns your dictation into a draft for you to review. ## Confidentiality Your voice and your texts are transcribed and corrected by Mistral AI and hosted by Scaleway, in France. Audio is not kept after transcription; from the documents you upload, only the extracted terms are kept. Deleting your account erases your notes, your vocabulary and your corrections. As with any online tool, apply your professional duty of confidentiality to what you dictate. Full details, provider by provider, are on our [Privacy](https://techvoice.fr/confidentialite) page (in French). ## Try it on your own case files You get free points when you sign up, with no credit card required: enough to dictate a week of notes and judge on the evidence. To estimate the time you could save, see [our time-savings calculation, document by document](https://techvoice.fr/en/blog/voice-dictation-time-savings). ## Frequently asked questions ### Does TechVoice know legal terminology? It learns it from you, in French or in English: enter your area of practice (employment law, business law, family law…), upload a few sample legal documents or letters, and correct whatever needs correcting. Every correction is remembered for your next dictations. ### Where are my texts processed? By Mistral AI and Scaleway, in France. Audio is not kept after transcription, and your notes stay in your account, where you can delete them at any time. Quick actions, if you run them, send the note’s text to Anthropic in the United States: nothing is sent without your click. ### Can I dictate a long document? Yes: a live dictation can last up to 60 minutes, as can an uploaded recording. If the connection drops, the text already transcribed is kept. ### Does TechVoice draft my legal documents? No. TechVoice transcribes and corrects what you dictate, without rewording it. One-click formatting produces a draft email or polished text for you to review: nothing is invented, and anything missing is left in square brackets.