Uploading Multimedia Files (Audio/Video in Various Languages)
CoLoop comes with the best commercially available machine transcription service built in. Transcription word errors are 43% lower on real world noisy datasets than common providers such as Otter, Teams and OpenAI’s whisper (see below).
Supported Languages and Accents
CoLoop supports near-human accurate transcription from Audio and Video in a range of accents and formats. The following table outlines the list of supported languages:Supported Languages
Supported Languages
| Language | Language Code |
|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US English | en_us |
| 🇦🇺 Australian English | en_au |
| 🇬🇧 UK English | en_uk |
| 🇪🇸 Spanish | es |
| 🇫🇷 French | fr |
| 🇩🇪 German | de |
| 🇮🇹 Italian | it |
| 🇵🇹 Portuguese | pt |
| 🇳🇱 Dutch | nl |
| 🇫🇮 Finnish | fi |
| 🇵🇱 Polish | pl |
| 🇹🇷 Turkish | tr |
| 🇷🇺 Russian | ru |
| 🇮🇳 Hindi | hi |
| 🇯🇵 Japanese | ja |
| 🇨🇳 Chinese | zh-CN |
| 🇻🇳 Vietnamese | vi |
| 🇰🇷 Korean | ko |
Supported File Formats
CoLoop also supports a range of different text formats. The following table outlines the list of support file types:Supported Text
Supported Text
| File Format/Data Source | Support | Additional Information |
|---|---|---|
| Audio files | ✅ | Recommended (very high accuracy!) |
| Video files | ✅ | Recommended (very high accuracy!) |
| Text files (.txt) | ✅ | Recommended |
| Other languages | ✅ | CoLoop supports audio files in 13 different languages. Read more |
| Word documents (.docx) | ✅ | Range of formats supported including Rev |
| Community data | ✅ | Should be in excel format. |
| Recollective | ✅ | Supports all qualitative tasks Read more |
| Incling | ✅ | Supports all qualitative tasks Read more |
| Otter transcripts | 🟡 | Low quality |
| Rev transcripts | 🟡 | Requires formatting |
| Other transcripts | 🟡 | Requires formatting |
| PDF files | ❌ | Copy and paste text in |
| Survey data | ❌ | Currently being worked on |
| Social media data | ❌ | Not supported |
Supported Audio and Video
Supported Audio and Video
| Supported audio file types | Supported video file types |
|---|---|
| .3ga | .webm |
| .8svx | .mts, .m2ts, .ts |
| .aac | .mov |
| .ac3 | .mp2 |
| .aif | .mp4, .m4p (with DRM), .m4v |
| .aiff | .mxf |
| .alac | |
| .amr | |
| .ape | |
| .au | |
| .dss | |
| .flac | |
| .flv | |
| .m4a | |
| .m4b | |
| .m4p | |
| .m4r | |
| .mp3 | |
| .mpga | |
| .ogg, .oga, .mogg | |
| .opus | |
| .qcp | |
| .tta | |
| .voc | |
| .wav | |
| .wma | |
| .wv |
