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Spanish in Pennsylvania

Recording consent in Pennsylvania, in both languages.

  • Pennsylvania requires every party’s consent to record a call (18 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 5703), not just the recorder’s. The opening is written for all-party-consent recording states and is the same on every call, in English first: Every call opens with the same fixed disclosure, sent as the agent’s opening line: the caller is speaking with an AI assistant and not an attorney, the call is recorded and transcribed, staying on the line is consent, and anyone who would rather not be recorded can hang up (the exact words).
  • With Spanish on, one more sentence follows the fixed recording and AI disclosure, offering to continue in Spanish. A caller who takes that offer then hears the same disclosure again, in full, in Spanish.
  • More than one in seventeen Pennsylvanians aged five and over speak Spanish at home (US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2024 one-year estimates, table S1601).
  • Spanish is there from launch, at no extra cost: the one plan covers every answered call, in English and — if you switch it on — Spanish, 24 hours a day.
  • You switch Spanish on yourself — it is off until you do, and the setting asks you to turn it on only if someone at your firm can follow up with a Spanish-speaking client.

How to turn on Spanish

Not a message-taker

A generic AI receptionist takes a message. This one runs your intake.

You hear every call

The recording, the transcript, a summary and the structured intake for every call are in your dashboard. Download what you need for your file: the recording, transcript, summary and intake are removed on a fixed schedule measured from each call.

Urgent cases offered a live transfer

A fatality, anything involving a city or a public body, an adjuster pushing for a recorded statement, evidence about to disappear: the agent recognizes the signs and offers to put the caller through to you live, in the hours you allow transfers. When it is unsure, it offers the transfer.

A callback promised, or a consultation booked or requested

Every routine caller is told the office will call them back, and gives the time that suits them. Connect a calendar and the agent books an ordinary case's consultation instead, from your real availability, while the caller is still on the phone, or requests one where your calendar asks you to confirm.

The whole call, step by step

Pricing

One plan. Every answered call included.

One plan, $149 a month, every answered call included. Fair use is a guide of up to 100 answered calls a month for one firm’s own line, not a cap: nothing meters your calls or cuts them off at that number. If you are consistently and substantially above it, we may get in touch to agree terms that fit that volume, and if we cannot agree any, the Terms of Service let either side end the plan.

Intake Gateway

$149 / month

  • Every answered call included — nothing is metered or billed per call
  • 24/7 intake in English, and in Spanish if you switch it on
  • Urgent cases are offered a live transfer in your hours; others get a callback, or a booked or requested consultation for an ordinary case once a calendar is connected
  • An email with the summary and intake after every call except one we are confident is spam
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Questions

What Pennsylvania firms ask about intake in Spanish.

Pennsylvania needs every party’s consent. Is that consent asked again in Spanish?

Yes, once the caller takes the Spanish offer. 18 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 5703 is on F2’s list of all-party-consent statutes. Before any intake question the caller hears the complete disclosure a second time, in Spanish, since agreeing to words you did not follow is not real agreement. Whether its wording meets your bar’s rules is for you to check.

What share of Pennsylvanians speak Spanish at home?

More than one in seventeen Pennsylvanians aged five and over (US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2024 one-year estimates, table S1601). The figure counts everybody who speaks Spanish at home, and many of them also speak English, so it does not count the callers who would ask for Spanish.

Can a Spanish-speaking Pennsylvania caller ask the agent if they have a case?

Never, in either language. The agent never gives legal advice or predicts an outcome: that is a hard rule, not a setting. What it takes down is what happened, the injuries and how to reach the caller, for your attorney to review.

Do Pennsylvania rules on lawyer advertising bear on answering in Spanish?

Intake Gateway answers the calls made to your line; how your bar’s rules on advertising and client contact bear on the way you use it is a question for you and your counsel.

What does a Spanish-only Pennsylvania caller get if Spanish is off?

With Spanish off, a caller who can’t go on in English hears one sentence in Spanish saying this line can only help them in English and that the office will get their number, and the call ends. No intake is taken in a language they didn’t understand, and you still get the email with their number.