FiregroundScribeFeatures
Everything between the radio and the report
Recording, transcription, event detection, incidents, benchmarks and reporting, in one install at your station.
Audio in
- Department audio streams (Icecast/MP3 and similar), including password-protected ones.
- Broadcastify feeds, with your department's own Broadcastify Premium account.
- A scanner or radio on the PC's audio input, cut into transmissions automatically.
- Trunked systems: uploads from trunk-recorder and SDRTrunk (Rdio Scanner compatible), or a watched folder.
- Channels and talkgroups named and classified by you: fireground, dispatch, command, and EMS (kept private).
- Several stations or recorders combined in one install (add-on).
Transcription
- Runs on the station PC, so no audio leaves the building. An online engine is optional.
- Audio clean-up for scanner audio: voice band, hiss reduction, volume levelling.
- Your vocabulary: unit numbers, streets and local names, with sample packs for your region.
- Corrections teach it: a fix your officers make repeatedly becomes automatic.
- GPU-ready for larger, more accurate models.
Fireground documentation
- 19 event types detected: dispatch, on scene, initial report and 360, command, water on the fire, knockdown, primary and secondary all clear, PAR, MAYDAY, emergency traffic, evacuate, RIT, under control and more, with rules you can edit.
- Incidents grouped automatically; merge and split by hand.
- Benchmarks from first arrival: water on the fire, primary all clear, under control, and your own milestones.
- An end-of-call summary written automatically when the radio goes quiet.
- Officer review of every event: confirm, reject, correct the time, or add one that was missed.
- Optional AI size-up drafts a narrative from the transcripts, using a model on your own PC or one you choose.
Reports and integration
- Incident exports in CSV and JSON, with NFIRS and NERIS times.
- Performance trends (add-on): median and 90th-percentile times by month and by incident type.
- After-action reports (add-on): a printable report on your letterhead, saved as a PDF.
- Read-only API keys and database views for your RMS, Excel or Power BI.
- A full audit log of every change.
Administration
- FiregroundScribe Manager on the server PC: status, users, settings, backups, logs and updates.
- Automatic updates, installed only when the radio is quiet.
- Admin, officer and viewer roles; data retention you configure.
- Secure remote access through Cloudflare Tunnel, without opening router ports.
- Nightly cloud backup and remote support, when you want them (add-ons).
FiregroundScribe is a documentation tool. It is not a life-safety system: alerts are advisory, and it must never be relied on for MAYDAY monitoring.