Why should I use a style guide?
Style Guides are a great way to boost the quality of your automatic and human-reviewed files. Use a Style Guide to define timing presets for automatic and human-reviewed files, such as characters per second/line and segment gaps. Add custom requirements around grammar, speakers and notation tags so that we can tailor our human service to your bespoke needs.
How do I create a Style Guide?
There are 2 ways to create a Style Guide on Happy Scribe; we’ll walk you through them below:
Creating a Style Guide during file upload
Once you’ve uploaded a file,
Click on Style Guide
Create a name for your Style Guide
Toggle or select the customisations required
Click Create
Note - a new style guide created from the Uploader will be specifically for the type of service you selected e.g a transcript specific style guide
Creating a style guide from the Dashboard
All plans can create and save one default style guide on the Dashboard.
If you are on the Business plan, you can create and save multiple style guides on the Dashboard.
You can set a style guide to be your default for Transcripts and Subtitles. This means that this style guide will automatically apply to all new files created in your Workspace.
Click on Style Guides
Select + New Style Guide
Select the service you want to create the style guide for: Transcript, Subtitles or Translated subtitles
Toggle or select your custom preferences
Click Create
You can view, modify and delete all your Style Guides on your Dashboard
Types of Style Guides
The types of customisation you can include in a style guide are dependent on the type of file you are requesting (transcript or subtitles):
Transcripts
Name your Style Guide
Toggle or Select custom preferences for human-made customisations for the following:
Fixing grammar
Verbatim
Notation tags
Speaker identification
You can also get a quote for more complex requirements, such as transcribing multilingual audio
Subtitles and Translated Subtitles
Name your Style Guide
Toggle or Select custom preferences for human-made customisations for the following:
Fixing grammar
Notation tags
Select Happy Scribe timing presets or set Custom timing presets.
These can be applied on automatic and human-reviewed files
Good to know: We will try to conform to your rules as much as possible but might deviate to better fit your content
You can also get a quote for more complex requirements, such as transcribing multilingual audio