About Speech2Data

Enhancing social justice in courts and municipal recordedproceedings for disadvantaged communities.

Why Us:

  • Our Vision

    Our vision is to offer “For The Record” recording systems that elevate equitable access to all stakeholders.

  • Our Mission

    Our mission is to offer easy-to-use, highly functional and
    affordable solutions for municipalities and courts. It is important to us that we solve real problems and offer real solutions, no matter the size of the community.

Who we are:

We are Speech2Data, an audio recording design and manufacturing company based in Geneva, Illinois. With a combined 25 years of experience in the industry, we specialize in portable digital audio recording solutions for municipal governments, state and tribal courts, conferences and live events for spoken word applications.

Founded in 2021, Speech2Data launched into the market at InfoComm 2023 in Orlando, Florida. Co-founders Paul Mathis and Mehdi Alister have more than 50 years of audio recording experience between them and previously worked as a team at D&M Holdings, Marantz Professional and Denon Professional.

Our Executives

Paul Mathis

Paul Mathis  has spent more than 30 years in the professional audio industry. He is a recognized leader in developing and bringing to market successive generations of leading-edge spoken word recording products, for such worldwide brands as Marantz Professional, Denon Professional, Superscope Technologies, and FTR. The launch of Speech2Data expands this history of innovation to now include Multitrack M4a, analog audio over Cat5e, Dan Dugan auto mic mixing, Speaker ID, your Notes and IT operation via LAN.

Mehdi Alister

Mehdi Alister brings more than 30 years of experience in the professional audio industry as well as market strategy consulting. He served the electronics industry by assisting divisions of Fortune 100 companies define and successfully pursue product development, marketing and channel management.

Paul and Mehdi have worked together for many years at Marantz Professional and Denon Professional with Paul focusing on innovative product development and Mehdi on strategy, sales and marketing.  

Speech2Data is proud to be collaborating with MediaTech Central Europe to meet the portable recording needs in Europe, Middle East and Africa. Additionally, Speech2Data and MediaTech Central Europe will be collaborating closely to develop and bring to the worldwide market integrated installation solutions for spoken word applications.