Uploading a file
Make sure your audio or video recordings are high quality. We recommend doing this with a video conferencing tool like Zoom or Teams.
1. Click ‘Import files’ and choose video or audio
2. Select multiple or a single file and press upload
- Transcription time typically depends on file length and size, so use lower resolution video or upload audio
- Uploaded files must be under 5 GB each
- Once your file(s) has finished uploading press “Complete”
3. Provide additional details about your file
You can skip this step by pressing “use default”. This will tell CoLoop to estimate the number of speakers and predict which accent or language setting to use
- Speakers expected: Enter the number of speakers including moderators
- Language: For English, select the most accurate accent and choose the ‘English’ option to cover a broad range of accents.
- Keywords: CoLoop uses dictionary models to transcribe, so please input any brand or concept names to have CoLoop listen out for them here.
4. Label the speakers and assign roles to them
Once your file has finished transcribing CoLoop will ask you to name the speakers and apply roles to them.- All speakers must have a name and a roll assigned to them
- Speakers can be given the role of either researcher “R” or participant “P”
- This will tell CoLoop whether to show them in the analysis grid and whether to use their text segments as either context or quoteable evidence
- Speakers can be merged together by giving them the same name
Additional features
Correcting Transcripts
The underlying models we use for analysis have a lot of context about your project and are quite robust to small transcription errors. Small transcription errors are expected and have an impercitible effect on analysis accuracy and quality.
Simultaneous Translation
SimTran recordings can be difficult to work with as they contain only one speaker. Information about who is speaking and their role in the conversation is lost and has to be inferred by CoLoop based on the context. If you are conducting Non-English language studies we recommend:- Transcribing and analysing in the native language if possible
- Asking your SimTran service to provide transcripts with labelled speakers in either of these two formats: click here or click here
- Labelling the single speaker in a SimTran transcript as
Moderator / Participant (translated)and the role toParticipant(see below).
Exporting Transcripts
You can export a transcript or its summary via the menu at the top. Exported transcripts will also include timestamps.
Playing back audio or video
- Click on the play button next to any of the segments to hear the underlying audio.
- If you want to play back a specific sentence or section you can also use the Clipping tool as a way to select a specific moment.
- Once selected you can play the segment back by clicking the play button at the top