Nick Rich is a consultant with Epiq Systems in London. He was at the InnoXcell Legal Big Data Symposium 2014 held in Hong Kong in March 2014 where he led a live demonstration of audio transcription from Mandarin as part of a panel session about all the implications raised by such languages.

The problem, he observes, begins with collection, but the technology now exists to manage analysis, culling and prioritisation with a view to reducing the amount to be reviewed and to produce audio data in a form which is usable by the court and by opponents.