chit at work
A voice recorder for journalists that keeps up with your beat
Who carries it: Reporter
Most recorders transcribe; they don't know your beat. chit is a voice recorder for journalists — hold the button through interviews, press conferences, and field reporting, and that evening you have quotes pulled with timestamps and your follow-up questions queued.
Your recorder transcribes. It does not know your beat.
When a reporter presses it
- Interviews
- press conferences
- field reporting
“Beat reporter; capture quotes verbatim with timestamps.”
A context like this — typed once into the app — is how chit stops being a generic recorder and starts being yours.
Quotes pulled with timestamps; follow-up questions queued.
Interview coverage on record, resident in the newsroom's own VPC.
Source protection: nothing is captured unless you hold the button, and newsroom deployments keep data resident in your own VPC.
Quotes, verbatim, with the time on them
The difference between a usable quote and a paraphrase is exact wording, and exact wording does not survive a notebook. Hold the card through the interview and the transcript keeps what was said, with timestamps, so pulling the quote is a search rather than a scrub through audio. It records offline, which matters at a press conference in a basement or a scene with no signal, and it records only while you hold the button, so recording is a deliberate act you can disclose. The legal position varies by state and it is yours to check — a good number of states require every party to consent. Newsroom deployments keep the material resident in the organisation's own VPC, which is the practical form of the source-protection conversation.
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Good questions
Can I pull exact quotes with timestamps?
Yes. Transcripts carry timestamps, so you can check a quote against the audio before it runs.
Does it work in the field with no signal?
Yes. chit records offline and syncs when you're back, and the battery runs about a month of typical use — it outlasts the assignment.
Will it start recording on its own?
No. chit records only while the button is held — no wake word, no always-on mic. You decide what's on the record, every time.
How does chit handle source protection?
Nothing is captured unless you hold the button, chit records offline and syncs when it next has a connection, and newsroom deployments can keep data resident in your organization's own VPC. See hichit.com/enterprise, or ask us about compliance deployments.
Can I search months of interviews for one thing a source said?
Yes. Ask-anything search runs across everything you've captured, so a half-remembered line from March is findable in seconds.
Can I legally record this interview?
That depends on where you and your source are. Most US states allow a recording when one party consents; California, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Montana, New Hampshire, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Washington generally require every party to agree. chit records only while you hold the button, so recording is always a deliberate act you can disclose and stop — but the consent call is yours, and this is not legal advice.
Recording laws differ by state, and several require every party's consent. chit only captures while the button is held — know your state's rule before recording another person.
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