Immigration Hearing Transcription and Translation/Interpretation Services

Overview

Development stage

In development or acquisitionSource: a) Pre-deployment – The use case is in a development or acquisition status.

High-impact designation

High-impactSource: a) High-impact

Impact justification

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Start date

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Withheld from public reporting

NoSource: a) No

Mission

Topic area

Law Enforcement

Operational functions

Translation and transcription Derived by keyword rules; see methodology

Problem the AI is intended to solve

Language translation/interpretation and hearing transcription services for EOIR immigration proceedings are completed manually, requiring significant money and time costs. Current manual processes are slow and labor-intensive and prolong various stages of immigration proceedings. In-person translators have limited availability to attend immigration proceedings. AI-assisted real-time language translation and AI-assisted transcription of hearings can automate parts or whole processes for EOIR language interpretation and hearing transcription services to optimize resources, time, and costs expended by the agency and the public for EOIR immigration proceedings. AI-assisted translation and transcription can automate processes for transcribing audio recordings of immigration hearings into searchable text and interpreting testimony given in a foreign language in real-time for court staff and parties to proceedings.

Expected benefits

AI-assisted transcription may reduce or eliminate steps currently needed for the manual transcription process by creating preliminary drafts of hearing transcripts for manual review and verification. AI-assisted language translation can be completed in real-time and reduce the time to complete manual, simultaneous language interpretation during immigration hearings. EOIR personnel and parties to proceedings can conveniently read real-time translations from the convenience of courtroom computers and monitors. The solution needs to allow contracted interpreters to appear via video remotely, which provides a cost-savings compared to in-person interpretation services, and may reduce instances of inadvertently double-booking interpreters or navigating the interpreter’s availability to travel to different hearing locations, all of which makes the immigration adjudication process more efficient.

System outputs

Real-time text translation of languages into English during immigration hearings. Preliminary draft transcripts of immigration hearings for manual review to complete.

Technology

AI classification

Generative AISource: Generative AI: AI that generates new or synthetic content (e.g., images, videos, audio, text, code).

System name(s)

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Custom-developed code

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Public source code

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Sourcing

How it was built

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Vendor (as reported)

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Vendors (standardized)

None on the standard list

A vendor is the supplier named by the agency. It does not identify the underlying model or AI technology.

Data and privacy

Involves PII

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Privacy Impact Assessment

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Authorization to Operate

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Demographic features

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Training and evaluation data

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Federal Data Catalog

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Governance

0 of 8 minimum-practice questions answered. A blank answer means the agency reported nothing; it does not mean the practice is absent.

Potential impacts and how they were identified

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