New smartphone app saves time with police interviews

[Jonathan Fairfield]

New smartphone app saves time with police interviews

 

 

A university lecturer has developed an app to speed up police work that records and transcribes interviews into text then automatically saves it onto a computerised police investigation form.

 

The “Investigation Report” app was developed by Khon Kaen University (KKU)’s Department of Computer Engineering lecturer Associate Professor Kanda Saikaew in collaboration with a Provincial Police Region 4 team.

 

The need for the app stemmed from an incident two years ago when Kanda was summoned to provide information in a case relating to the university, said Sam Chai superintendent Pol Colonel Boonrit Chaweerat who was part of the collaboration.

 

Kanda noticed that police investigators’ would interview people then type out testimony which was inconvenient and slow. She came up with the program that could record testimony and immediately convert it into text to save time.

 

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