A quick look back at our coverage of e-Discovery in recent times will show one glaring hole. That hole is audio e-Discovery, which hasn’t been covered because a solution has not been available. Until now, that is, with the release of Zylab’s Audio Search Bundle.

Zylab (news, site) doesn’t need any introduction, but for the record, it is one of the bigger players in the e-Discovery and information management markets, and, unlike some, has stuck firmly within this space.

Audio Search Use

The result is a number of established products, as well as some lesser-known ones. The Zylab Audio Search Bundle, if it works as Zylab says it does, should take off for two reasons.

The first and most obvious one is that, according to the release notes, the software will cut the time it takes to go through audio files for information relevant to e-Discovery requests.

The second thing is — and putting it in a wider enterprise context — it can help identify and recognize unstructured audio content that is coming into enterprises through a variety of sources

In this respect, think of all the audio tools even a small business uses, and then think of all the untapped information that is coming through those tools . Even at the very lowest level, those tools come from fixed-line telephone, VOIP, mobile and specialized platforms such as Skype or MSN Live.

via Zylab’s E-Discovery Software Identifies Information Stored in Audio Files.