Find everything you need to know about style guides in this handy overview.

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What are style guides?

Before, admins asked scribes through manual instructions to adhere to specific speaker labels, CPLs, or other transcription and subtitle requirements that clients requested.

Now, this will be integrated in the user's own workspace so they can request these customisations directly themselves. They do this by creating style guides on the Happy Scribe platform. Style guides specify common and new requirements in a tidy, handy overview.

For every style guide, users will be able to:

• Request custom (feasible) presets for their files when it comes to lines per capsule, min. and max. subtitle duration, CPL and CPS, and frame gaps.
• Request verbatim.
• Request grammar correction or custom speaker labelling.
• Request different shot change presets.

Users can find a list of style guides in their workspace, and can specify one style guide per upload.

Style guide sections

Below are the different aspects of these style guides and how to incorporate them into your files.

🗣️ Speaker labels

• Speaker ID: Standard means that you should label the speaker as you usually would. Ideally by full name, otherwise the best possible label you can think of.
• Speaker ID: Description means that you should use the most relevant attribute to label the speaker, for example: teacher, construction worker, actress, runner, policeman, interviewer, translator.
• Speaker ID: Gender means that you should use the speaker’s gender to label them.
  • Male
  • Female
  • Non-binary (only needed when it is mentioned that the speaker is non-binary or uses they/them pronouns)

🏷️ Notation tags

Users will be able to specify which tags they need included and which not.