Electronic Communication Platform

A method of recording and playing back a group audio communication held over a network, the method comprising:

• providing at least two client stations;
• each client station having at least a microphone for audio input and a speaker for audio output;
• providing a central media server;
• holding a group audio conversation whereby an audio stream from the microphone on each client station is transmitted to the central media server, and the central media server retransmits each audio stream to each other client station for reproduction on the speakers of the other client stations;
• recording each audio stream individually on the central media server;
• using a transcription module on the central media server to transcribe the recorded audio streams to create a transcribed text record of each audio stream, wherein the text record of each audio stream is tagged with references to relevant time periods in the audio stream,
• transmitting the transcribed text record from the central media server to each client station;
• displaying the transcribed text record on a user interface on each client station, the user interface allowing playback of the original audio streams starting at a time in the recording determined by a user-selected part of the transcribed text record.