Uploading Files
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 |
CoLoop also supports a range of different video and audio formats. The following table outlines the list of support file types:
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 |
After you’ve uploaded your discussion guide and generated a project description, you will be prompted to import files from the Import files page. If you’re uploading audio, video, docx or txt, choose the corresponding button.
If you’re uploading Community data, check out the following articles:
Please note large files (1Gb+) can take a few minutes to upload. Please ensure your computer does not sleep while files are uploading.
Once they’ve uploaded you’ll be able to create a transcript.