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Editor Settings Reference

Detailed documentation of all editor settings and options available in the Stenoris transcript editor.

Playback Settings

Playback Speed

Control the audio playback rate for easier transcription review.

Options: 0.5x, 0.75x, 1x (default), 1.25x, 1.5x, 2x

Use slower speeds for dense content or heavily accented speech. Use faster speeds when reviewing familiar content.

Skip Duration

Configure how many seconds the forward/back buttons skip.

Default: 1 second

Adjust this value to match your editing workflow.

Smart Playback

Smart Playback Dialog

Smart Playback automatically stops audio when you start editing and resumes when you finish. Click the settings icon next to Smart Playback to configure:

OptionDescription
Continue where stoppedResume playback from where it was before your edit
Continue before editResume from a position before where you made the edit
Continue after editResume from after the edit location
Jump back X secondsJump back a configurable number of seconds from where playback stopped

Confidence Highlighting

The editor can highlight words based on transcription confidence to help you focus on potentially inaccurate portions.

Enable Confidence Highlighting

Check Highlight Confidence to enable color-coded confidence indicators.

Confidence Threshold

Confidence Threshold

Set the threshold that determines when words are highlighted green (high confidence) vs yellow/red (lower confidence).

ThresholdDescription
50% (very low)Only words below 50% confidence appear red - shows almost everything as green
70% (low)Words below 70% confidence highlighted - relaxed threshold
80% (medium)Balanced threshold for most transcripts
90% (high)Stricter threshold - more words highlighted for review
95% (very high)Most strict - highlights nearly all words for careful review

Confidence Colors

  • Green background: Word confidence is above your threshold
  • Yellow background: Word confidence is moderately below threshold
  • Red background: Word confidence is significantly below threshold

TIP

Start with 80% (medium) threshold and adjust based on your transcript quality. Lower the threshold if too many words are highlighted; raise it if errors are being missed.

Gap Settings

Gaps are time spans in a transcript without text. These can be pauses where no one speaks, time spans where a transcript is missing, or segments of parallel speech.

Show Gaps

Check Show Gaps to display gap markers in the transcript.

Gap Display Settings

Gap Settings Dialog

Click the pencil icon next to "Show Gaps" to configure gap display:

Minimum Gap Length

Show gaps with at least the following duration:

  • 0.3 seconds
  • 0.5 seconds
  • 1 second
  • 2 seconds
  • 5 seconds

Gap Bracket Style

Choose the character to enclose gaps:

  • [ ] - Square brackets (default)
  • ( ) - Parentheses

Font Type

  • Normal - Standard size, e.g., [Pause: 0.4sec]
  • Small - Smaller text, e.g., [PAUSE: 0.4sec]

Display Style

  • Short - Abbreviated format, e.g., [P: 0.4s]
  • Long - Full format, e.g., [PAUSE: 0.4sec]

Gap Editor

Click on any gap in the transcript to open the Gap Editor dialog, which allows you to:

  1. Play the gap - Listen to the audio during the gap period
  2. Change gap type - Classify what kind of gap it is
  3. Resolve the gap - Add transcript text to fill the gap

Gap Types

TypeDescription
Pause (no speech)Silence in the audio - no one is speaking
No TranscriptA single speaker is talking but wasn't transcribed
Parallel SpeechMultiple speakers talking simultaneously

INFO

Changing the gap type helps document why certain portions weren't transcribed and can improve future processing.

Speaker Panel

Speaker Panel

The speaker panel on the left side shows all detected speakers with color-coded buttons:

  • Click a speaker name to assign selected text to that speaker
  • Use keyboard shortcuts ALT+1 through ALT+9 to quickly assign speakers
  • Edit speaker names by clicking on them in an utterance header