The Italian pioneering technology Cabolo converts sound and image into text, enabling organization, archiving, and local information access.
In the era of technology, where everything is based on online data storage, there is an Italian solution that approaches connectivity differently, operating completely offline, which is attracting the interest of the institutional and business world worldwide. This tool is called Cabolo and is the solution developed by Cedat85 for the secure management of content resulting from meetings, conferences, interrogations, lectures, conferences and all those environments where confidentiality is an imperative.
"Today, a significant part of information is not produced in writing, but orally: in meetings, in business discussions, in moments of decision-making. However, the immediate recording of this content is now essential. If we want to create a reliable digital future, we must start from the spoken word and ensure the immediate recording of information, at the time and moment it arises," underlines Gianfranco Mazzocoli, CEO of Cedat85.
Cabolo works offline – it is an environment that offers the ability to record and edit audio and video directly, at the point of production. The content is transcribed, archived, organized and made immediately accessible, without the involvement of external servers, cloud storage and without the risks of data interception or leakage. Cabolo integrates Artificial Intelligence infrastructure, advanced encryption functions and full control and personalization. The system also allows for automatic transcription of interviews without an internet connection, ensuring that data never leaks, operating as an offline transcription device with AES-256 encryption.
It is precisely this characteristic of Cabolo - the "physical presence" of artificial intelligence, away from the world wide web - that led Gartner to include Cedat85 among the most important European players in the field of voice artificial intelligence. A distinction based on 40+ years of experience in speech processing, as well as on a simple but revolutionary principle: the technology must not only be powerful, but above all reliable, secure, resilient and shielded against any threat.
Cabolo’s comparative advantage is flexibility . The device can be placed on a conference table, connected to the venue’s sound system, Teams and Zoom, or installed in a control room via the Dante, which allows for the management of multiple audio channels simultaneously. Through Artificial Intelligence, the system recognizes participants, automatically structures the content and registers it in an index. All this without an internet connection, which is a crucial advantage for courts, the defense and security sectors, boards of directors, universities, international events and in general all cases where decision-making is done orally and confidentiality and information security are required.
"Unlike well-known online solutions, Cabolo is an offline ecosystem designed specifically for the combined management of audio, video and text. What makes it stand out is the operation of Artificial Intelligence in a private environment, designed to process, archive and synthesize information with absolute security. Since it operates entirely locally, Cabolo is a secure and autonomous workspace, where sensitive data remains in the hands of the user. Thanks to the capabilities of training the Artificial Intelligence by the user himself, Cabolo constantly improves its performance, offering maximum efficiency with up to ten times lower energy consumption compared to cloud solutions, as well as an extremely limited environmental footprint," says Enrico Giannotti, Managing Director of Cedat85.
The new generation of Cabolo introduces tools designed specifically for those who need to work quickly on content: smart summaries, highlighting key points, automatic references, editing functions to eliminate repetitions. With the “Insights” function, Cabolo also offers a complete picture of all the collected material, highlighting priorities and critical points.
It is not surprising that Cabolo's technology is especially popular in high-sensitivity environments: from European institutions to large international groups, including the judicial sector, where the Cabolo Interview Kit - equipped with 4096‑bit encryption and a digital watermark - has become an everyday tool.
A significant recognition came in 2024, when Cabolo was presented at the G7 ministers' meeting for Industry, Technology and the Digital Sector in Trento, contributing to the work on ethical and responsible artificial intelligence.
Cabolo proves that innovation can be achieved without compromising security. In an era of hyper-connectivity, it brings back to the forefront the idea that data is more valuable when it remains where it is created and in the hands of those who produce it. And it does so with the stability of a technology already implemented by major organizations such as the Spanish Ministry of Justice, the Croatian Ministry of Justice, the Nigerian Federal Executive Council, the Royal Devon University in the United Kingdom, Masaryk University in the Czech Republic, the Italian Printing and Mint, Milan Malpensa and Linate Airports, Bocconi University in Milan, the Court of Turin, the Friuli Venezia Giulia Regional Council in Italy, and the insurance company Allianz. An important path that was rewarded in 2021, when Cedat85's solutions won, through a global competition, their implementation in the European Parliament, providing real-time management of plenary session content in all 24 official languages of the Union.
