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Pozotron uses Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) and Machine Learning to make humans more efficient, accurate, and effective, but not to replace them.
In the case of Pozotron, our developers created an AI system designed to identify discrepancies between a text manuscript and narrated audio. Pozotron’s proprietary automatic speech recognition (“ASR”) algorithm uses machine learning to match an audiobook’s manuscript to the recorded narration, outputting a list of suggested discrepancies between the manuscript text and the audio file. Pozotron’s algorithm is based on thousands of hours of paired audio narration and manuscript texts, and can reliably determine more than 99% of misspoken, missed, and inserted characters, words, and phrases in an audiobook.
If you’d like more information, please check out our AI and Data FAQs, our Open Letter on AI in Audiobooks, our Terms of Service, or please contact us.
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You’ll get an invoice monthly, and a detailed list of charges is available from your account page.
We invoice on a monthly basis on the day you first signed on to the Pozotron system.
For example, if you sign up for a “Pay as you go” plan on January 10th. Then, on February 10th, you’ll get a bill for all of the hours that you submitted to Pozotron.
If you sign up for a Smart Rollover Plan, then you are charged $29 right away, and given 4 hours of included credits. After a month, you’ll get another bill for $29, plus any additional usage.
Pozotron works with many different languages, not just English audiobooks. Pozotron supports proofing with digital accuracy checking in English, Spanish, German, Swedish, and French. When you upload your script Pozotron will automatically detect the language for proofing.
What if your book contains text in multiple languages or other mixed-language content? Pozotron will use the most prominent language to proof the whole book.
You can use Pozotron in any supported language under any of our pricing plans.
Yes! Pozotron works for diverse accents. We’ve seen everything from standard Mid-western to Jamaican accents get processed successfully.
With heavy accents, you’ll often have to hit the ‘Filter Out’ button on some heavily accented words, and then the rest of the potential misreads of that word will automatically get filtered out for the rest of the project. This is a very powerful and accurate process, but it does require some consistency during your proofing process at the beginning of the book. You can also choose to run a project with heavily accented audio on the “Relaxed” algorithm setting.
If you have more specific questions about efficiently working with accents, feel free to book a free demo with us by clicking here.
On the main project page, click the import/export tab, then DAW Markers, where you see a list of the DAWs supported in Pozotron.
There are a few different ways to import those markers into various DAWs. We provide detailed videos for each DAW on our [YouTube channel]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFWkmCohaVk).
In the lower right corner of a project page, click the button that says ‘Project Settings”, then ‘Archive Project or Chapters’ to opens up a dialogue box. From there, select the chapters you wish to archive or recover. For more information, click here.
There will be times when there’s text in your script that the narrator won’t be reading. In those cases, it’s a good idea to do some prep work before uploading that script into the online portal.
Remember, because the system analyzes the script for all text in the file, it expects to be able to match it all up with audio. If there’s no narration to go with parts of the script, there will be annotations saying that narration is missing.
For a project with footnotes, if you upload your manuscript in word (.docx) format using the correct footnotes feature, Pozotron will automatically ignore the footnotes in your script.
If you do not have the original word document, and if there are lots of captions or lots of footnotes in your pdf, it can quickly become time-consuming to mark all of those instances as ‘not an error,’ and it can make the transcriptions and the reports more difficult to create as well.
One of the best ways to handle this is by using the ‘redact’ function in Adobe Acrobat to black out and/or eras captions and footnotes that won’t be read in the narration, you give Pozotron a clean version of what should and shouldn’t be there.
For tips on how to redact, contact us and we’ll walk you through the solution.
Double click a word, or click and drag over a word or phrase and release. You’ll see a small bubble pop up.
Click the bubble and it will take you to a manually added annotation, where you can add hashtags and describe your pickup quickly and efficiently the boxes provided.
Typing in a single letter will start filtering hashtags, so work to find the quickest ways to get to the ones you use the most often. Also, you can you the keyboard, ‘tab’ and ‘enter’ keys specifically, to move through the annotations boxes. This will save you lots of time clicking via the mouse. This and other efficiency tips are available on videos on our YouTube channel.
After you’ve exported markers from Pozotron Studio, then you have to make them useful by importing them back into your DAW of choice. The idea for importing is always the same, though the methods for getting them into the DAWs will vary some.
We have YouTube videos stepping through imports for each DAW listed below.
There is a tutorial video for our pronunciation guide available on our YouTube channel. There are a ton of great features, and a very small learning curve can make a huge difference in your overall efficiency when it comes to project wordlists.
“Filtering” and “research” buttons are the core of the page, and we’ve integrated the dictionary APIs for Oxford (US & GB) and Forvo, along with one-button search links to Oxford, Forvo, Merriam Webster, Onelook.com, and YouGlish pages make wordlist research an absolute breeze.
You can find more information on this here.
Pozotron supports all major web browsers. However, due to limitations with Safari there are significant limitations for recording audio in Pozotron for Safari users. As such, we recommend using Firefox or Google Chrome browsers for Pozotron Studio.
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