What if there aren't the right number of speakers?
Learn what to do if CoLoop’s transcription service doesn’t display the correct number of speakers in your uploaded audio file. Discover how to set expected speaker numbers, merge speaker segments, and correct speaker labels effectively. Get tips for optimizing transcription accuracy in interviews, focus groups, and other discussions with varying numbers of participants.
If you’ve uploaded a file and CoLoop isn’t showing the right number of speakers don’t worry! There are a couple of things you can do to correct this…
Give CoLoop an expected number of speakers for the call
This is generally good practice if you are transcribing an IDI or triad and know exactly how many people were in the interview.
You can set the expected number of speakers when uploading the audio. It’s worth noting this is an expected number so the may sometimes still choose to assign fewer or more speakers.
Merge together speakers
If the recording your dealing with is a focus group and you are happy differentiating only between whether something was said by either a Moderator or a Researcher it may be simplest to merge the speaker segments together.
In this case if you’ve already started to label participants, delete the file, reupload it and follow the instructions here to merge them together.
Add new speakers and correct segments
Once you’ve already labelled a set of speaker segments you can go back and correct individual instances where these might not be correct.
When doing this you can add in additional speakers like this…