Guides

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Account and settings

• Create an account
• Sign in with email or Google
• Change your password
• Edit your profile
• Connect a Mistral or Google Gemini AI key
• Choose how transcription runs
• Manage your annotation types and sets
• Sign out, and what an expired session looks like
• Delete your account

Projects

• Create a project
• Read the project overview
• Add videos to a project
• Remove a video from a project
• Rename or describe a project
• Delete a project
• Use the dashboard

Videos

• Upload a video
• Declare the spoken language
• Find all your videos
• Open a video in the annotator
• Delete a video
• What deleting a video removes

The annotator

• Find your way around the annotator
• Play, scrub and zoom the timeline
• Build your annotation library
• Use a saved library
• Save a library for reuse
• Edit types, colours and sub-types
• Add a track
• Create an annotation by dragging
• Edit an annotation
• Move, resize or delete an annotation
• Use free-text tracks
• Count tracks and duration tracks
• Undo a change
• How saving works
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Show the waveform and subtitles
• Take the annotator tour
• Review AI suggestions

Speakers

• How speakers work
• Add a speaker
• Rename or reorder speakers
• Delete a speaker
• Annotate one speaker at a time

Transcripts

• Transcribe a video with AI
• Transcribe long or quiet videos
• Upload a transcript file (SRT or TXT)
• Edit a transcript line
• Edit the whole transcript
• Export a transcript
• Transcribe again
• Word-level timing explained

Linguistic tagging

• What tagging gives you
• Declare a language to start tagging
• Read the tag status chip
• Tag again after editing
• When tagging is blocked or fails
• Declare languages for many videos (admin)

Analysis workspace

• Open a project's workspaces
• Create, rename or delete a workspace
• Set the workspace scope
• Add a module
• Reorder or remove modules
• Give one module its own scope
• Module: Category Breakdown
• Module: Annotation Distribution
• Module: Duration Distribution
• Module: Timeline Density
• Module: Timeline Coverage
• Module: Co-occurrence Heatmap
• Module: Mode Combinations
• Module: Cross-video Comparison
• Module: Inter-rater Agreement (Kappa)
• Module: Linguistic profile
• How workspaces save
• Export a workspace to Excel

Concordance

• Search annotations in context
• Search words by lemma, form, part of speech or named entity
• Read a concordance result

Exports and reports

• Export annotations to Excel or CSV
• Export for R
• Export to ELAN (.eaf)
• Create a Word report
• Print or save as PDF
• Read chart values and get the numbers out

Imports

• Import a project from the old GRAPE
• Import from ELAN
• What imports keep and what they lose

Working together

• Invite a collaborator
• Roles: owner, editor, viewer
• See who is working in the video
• How live sync works
• Remove a collaborator

Admin

• Read the admin overview
• Manage users and roles
• See all projects
• Manage AI models
• Manage transcripts and languages
• Read the platform logs
• Read the Insights page
• Edit the Project Status page
• Create a platform test
• Run a test and read the results