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Government documents, narrated.

Hear the documents that run the country — in their own words.

True Record narrates official United States government documents: Supreme Court opinions, Congressional Research Service reports, and congressional committee reports. No panel. No commentary. No spin. The document, start to finish.

Submitted to the App Store on September 25, 2026 — launching on iPhone when Apple’s review completes.

True Record now-playing screen for a Supreme Court opinionTrue Record chapters sheet with All, Majority and Dissents filters
~6 hoursOf narrated documents in the launch catalog
11:10A Supreme Court syllabus, played free in full
2,351 → 0Abbreviations the voice couldn’t say, spelled out
16 daysFirst commit to App Store submission
Who it’s for

For people who care what the documents actually say

People argue about Supreme Court decisions constantly and almost never read them. True Record lets them listen instead — on a commute, a walk, or at work.

Primary

Engaged listeners

Adults who already spend 5–15 hours a week with talk radio, news podcasts or audiobooks — while they drive, commute, walk or work with their hands.

Pain: The primary source is locked inside a PDF they will never open, so they rely on what a commentator said it said.
Professional

Journalists, staffers, law students, podcasters

People who want a fast audio pass over a report before deciding whether to read it properly.

Pain: Hours of reading just to find out whether a document matters.
Access

Blind and low-vision listeners

Official documents read aloud, with a read-along transcript and lock-screen and headphone controls.

Pain: Government PDFs are hard to use with a screen reader.
Education

Civics educators and law librarians

Primary sources students will actually listen to — majority, concurrences and dissents, each attributed.

Pain: Getting students to engage with the original text.
Benefits

The document, start to finish

Every narration is the official published text, read verbatim. Nothing is editorialized, summarized or paraphrased.

Read in their own words

Supreme Court opinions, House and Senate committee reports, and CRS reports, narrated from the official text.

Every view, attributed

Where a document has dissenting or minority views, they’re read and attributed — each its own chapter, with All, Majority and Dissents filters.

Read along

A transcript that highlights the sentence being spoken — free for every document.

An alert the morning it lands

Follow the Court, a committee or a topic for one plain, factual notification — never more than one a day.

Built for the commute

Offline downloads (Pro), speeds from 0.8× to 2×, skip back 30 and forward 15, lock-screen and headphone controls.

No ads, no tracking

No advertising, analytics or tracking. Sign in with Apple, Google or an emailed code — no passwords.

How it works

Open a document. Press play.

  1. Browse the catalogEach document shows its date, run-time and chapters.
  2. Listen freeA 15-second preview of anything, the Court’s syllabus in full, and the transcript.
  3. Go Pro for the whole thingFull narrations, dissents and concurrences, downloads.
  4. Follow what mattersGet a morning alert when a new document lands.
Pricing

Free to listen in. Pro for the whole record.

Full access is $4.99 per month, or $39.99 per year with a 7-day free trial on the annual plan.

FreePro
15-second preview of any document✓✓
Supreme Court syllabus, in full✓✓
Read-along transcript✓✓
Morning alerts (free account)✓✓
Full narrations—✓
Dissents and concurrences, read and attributed—✓
Offline downloads—✓
Tap a transcript line to play from there—✓

The 15-second preview, the syllabus and the read-along transcript stay free without a subscription.

Proof

Curation, not conversion

2,351 → 0

unspeakable abbreviations, fixed before a word is read

Every abbreviation of two letters or more is spelled out — 2,351 instances across the documents before the fix, zero after. The quality check refuses to approve a document while one remains, and a person spot-listens to every release before it ships.

takgio production record, Sept. 2026 · Read the case study

Launch catalog, ~5 h 56 m

A Supreme Court opinion with each of its separate opinions (3 h 12 m), a House committee report (2 h 20 m), and two Congressional Research Service reports (~12 min each).

Built in 16 days

From first commit on September 9, 2026 to App Store submission on September 25.

Market opportunity

Americans are listening — to podcasts, audiobooks and news

58%

of Americans 12+ (167 million) listened to a podcast in the last month — an all-time high. Among 55+, monthly online audio jumped from 52% in 2024 to 70% in 2026.

Edison Research, The Infinite Dial 2026 · source
32%

of US adults get news from podcasts at least sometimes, up from 22% in 2020 — and Republicans and Democrats are about equally likely to.

Pew Research Center, Sept. 2025 · source
$2.43B

US audiobook sales in 2025, up 9%; 58% of adults (157 million) have listened to an audiobook.

Audio Publishers Association via Publishers Weekly, June 2026 · source
Campaign kit

Everything you need to advertise True Record

Positioning, approved copy, targeting, keywords, claims with their sources, and downloadable assets. Every claim here is verified — please use them as written.

Positioning statement

True Record narrates official United States government documents — Supreme Court opinions, Congressional Research Service reports and congressional committee reports — read verbatim, in their own words. No panel. No commentary. No spin. The document, start to finish.

Approved headlines & taglines

  • Government documents, narrated.
  • Hear the documents that run the country — in their own words.
  • No panel. No commentary. No spin.
  • The document, start to finish.
  • Every dissent, attributed.
  • The Court’s own syllabus, free.

25-word description

Hear official government documents — Supreme Court opinions, committee reports, CRS reports — narrated verbatim. No panel, no commentary, no spin. The document, start to finish.

50-word description

True Record narrates official US government documents in their own words: Supreme Court opinions with every separate opinion attributed, congressional committee reports and Congressional Research Service reports. Listen on the commute with read-along transcripts, chapters, speed control and offline downloads. The Court’s syllabus and every transcript are free.

Key messages

  • Lead with the document, never the app.
  • Neutral by design: the official text, read verbatim, with every side’s views attributed.
  • Free way in: the syllabus plays free and every transcript is free to read.
  • Built for listening: chapters, speed, downloads, lock-screen controls.

Audience & targeting

  • Listeners: regular podcast, talk-radio and audiobook listeners; commuters.
  • Interests: the Supreme Court, Congress, law, civics, current affairs.
  • Professionals: journalists, legislative staff, law students, podcasters.
  • Access: blind and low-vision communities; civics educators and law librarians.
  • Age: 17+ (the App Store rating).

Search keywords

supremecourtscotuscongressopinionrulingdecisionlegislationlawpoliticcivicaudiobooksenate

The live App Store keyword set. Documents are also findable by name — the case or report title.

Channels

  • Short video clips of the document itself, on decision days.
  • Podcast guesting — legal and Supreme Court shows, congressional-affairs shows, accessibility podcasts.
  • App Store search and document-name search.
  • Decision-day timing — Supreme Court decision days are scheduled marketing events.
  • Press — origin, accessibility and content angles, 15–60 days after launch.

Calls to action & links

Approved claims & sources

$4.99/month, or $39.99/year with a 7-day free trial on the annual planApp Store listing
15-second preview, syllabus and read-along transcript are freeApp Store listing
Launch catalog of 4 documents, about 5 h 56 mTrue Record catalog, Sept. 24, 2026
2,351 unspeakable abbreviations spelled out, 0 remainingtakgio production record, Sept. 2026
16 days from first commit to App Store submissionProject history

Do

  • Lead with the document, and name it neutrally.
  • Say “the documents in the catalog”.
  • Apply the neutrality test: would a reasonable person who disagrees say this misrepresented the document?
  • Include the independence disclaimer below in long-form placements.

Don’t

  • Say “every opinion” or “every report”.
  • Mention AI, summaries, CarPlay, Android, or tablets.
  • Frame anything as partisan, in either direction.
  • Use “official”, government seals, or anything built around “Congressional Record”.
  • Say it’s on the App Store until the listing is live.
  • Use screenshots that name individual politicians or show graphic case text.

True Record is an independent product and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the United States government, any court, agency, or member of Congress. Narration is synthesized from the official published text, and the source document is linked from every narration.

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