DSi Compliance launches DS-Investigator for audio analysis

DSi Compliance has launched DS-Investigator, an audio and video forensic analysis platform for investigators. The product is built for law enforcement and investigative use.

The launch adds to DSi Compliance's wider forensic software line, designed to process digital files and identify material relevant to enquiries. DS-Investigator is positioned as a tool for officers and analysts handling audio recordings, video files, and written documents.

The platform can process multiple languages within a single conversation, identify different speakers, and remove background noise, including music with lyrics. It can also adapt to slang and patois. Analysis starts at $50 for 500 minutes of audio or video, or the equivalent volume in letter-sized pages.

DSi Compliance described the system as CJIS-aligned and intended to preserve evidential integrity in investigative work. The software directly analyses source files to locate keywords and phrases while identifying the languages and dialects used in the material.

According to DSi Compliance, the platform helps users sort information into relevant and non-relevant material by searching for configurable entities such as names, places, dates, and objects. That approach reflects broader demand across policing, compliance, and legal review for software that can reduce the manual work involved in sifting through large volumes of digital evidence.

Investigation focus

For investigative teams, one persistent problem in handling intercepted, recorded, or seized material is source quality. Background noise, multiple speakers, mixed languages, and informal speech patterns can all affect transcription and review, particularly when teams must work through extensive files under time pressure.

DS-Investigator was developed to address those issues in day-to-day investigations. The software sits within the company's broader DS-Keywords forensic platform, which DSi Compliance described as a secure, cloud-based artificial intelligence system for processing digital evidence and highlighting case-relevant information.

The technology is intended for organisations that process large quantities of data for evidential, investigative, or compliance purposes. According to DSi Compliance, those users include organisations in government, finance, legal, and social media, as well as investigators, Chief Information Security Officers, and Data Protection Officers.

Bradley Geppert outlined the product's intended use in law enforcement settings. "Experience across law enforcement shows that current surveillance systems often lack effective voice monitoring. High transcription errors and inadequate audio processing lead to false positives, increasing operational workload and forcing teams to spend time unnecessarily. By customizing the DS-Compliance toolkit for law enforcement-specific use cases, agencies achieve significantly higher rates of accuracy and efficiency. Notably, this solution is cost-effective and fits into existing processes and platforms without requiring major system changes," said Bradley Geppert, Chief Executive Officer, DSi Compliance.

Pricing model

DSi Compliance has attached a relatively low entry price to the product compared with many specialist forensic tools, framing the offer around smaller units of analysis rather than large procurement contracts. The full platform starts at $50 and is available for direct purchase as well as through Four and buying cooperatives including OMNIA Partners.

That pricing point suggests DSi Compliance is trying to reach a broad range of users, from smaller investigative units to larger agencies that may want to test the software before wider deployment. In a market where specialist review tools can involve substantial upfront spending and integration work, a lower-cost model may widen access for departments with tighter budgets.

Wider market

The launch comes as software suppliers seek to apply artificial intelligence to evidence review, transcription, and document analysis in regulated and investigative environments. Organisations working with large evidence sets increasingly want tools that can identify patterns, extract specific terms, and reduce the time analysts spend on first-pass review.

At the same time, accuracy and evidential handling remain central concerns, especially where outputs may feed into criminal enquiries, regulatory cases, or internal investigations. Vendors in this field are under pressure to show that automated analysis can handle poor-quality source material and varied speech without increasing the risk of missed information or mistaken matches.

DSi Compliance said its technology was developed by a team that includes former senior military and police figures, reflecting the company's focus on users involved in forensic analysis and compliance work. The software is intended to reduce discovery time and processing costs for organisations dealing with large-scale data review.

DS-Investigator can search files for names, places, dates, and objects while learning the languages and dialects present in a recording.