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English is the main language that we have the best support for. We’re working on adding other languages (Spanish is on the way!), and we hope to have future announcements to make soon.
When other languages show up in books as words or phrases, they tend to make it onto the annotation list. Be sure to have someone proofing who has a good ear for those sounds and has a plan for marking them accordingly.
Yes! Pozotron works for diverse American and British accents. We’ve seen everything from standard Mid-western to Jamaican accents get processed successfully.
There are a few caveats here. With heavy accents, you’ll often have to hit the ‘not an error’ button a few times per heavily accented word, 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.
If you have more specific questions about efficiently working with accents, give us a quick ring and we can step you through some case studies or quick best practice techniques.
On the main project page, click the small triangle by the import/export tab. There you’ll get a list of the possible ways to export markers for various DAWS. Pick the one you want, and you’re good to go!
There are a few different ways to import those markers into various DAWs. We provide detailed videos for each DAW on our YouTube channel.
In the lower right corner of a project page, there’s a button that says ‘Project Settings.’ Click that option, and hitting ‘trash chapters’ opens up a dialogue box. From there, select the chapters you wish to delete.
Never fear, though - they aren’t deleted permanently. You can restore chapters if you change your mind later.
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.
If there are lots of captions or lots of footnotes, 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. By blacking out and/or erasing captions and footnotes that won’t be read in the narration, you give the Pozotron studio 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 your individual project.
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 a YouTube video stepping through imports for each DAW.
There is a long-form description of working with the 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.
The pronunciation guide was a hugely requested features, and we’re very happy with the results, even as we continue to streamline it.
“Filtering” and “research” buttons are the core of the page, and one-button links to Oxford, Forvo, Merriam Webster, and YouGlish pages make wordlist research an absolute breeze.
You can find more information on this here.
At the moment, we don’t support Safari for recording audio in the system. You are welcome to use Firefox or Google Chrome browsers.
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