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Style guides 101
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Written by Maria Z
Updated over a week ago

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

💡 A new style guide created from the uploader will be specifically for the type of service you selected, for example, 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

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