Quickstart

This tutorial takes you from no account to your first transcribed and tagged Session item. You’ll do four things: sign up, open a Session, upload a WAV, and add a Property. No prior VoiceQC knowledge needed.

Before you start

An email you can read right now

Sign-up uses a one-time passcode sent to your email. The code expires after a few minutes.

A short WAV file

Any WAV. A 5–30 second clip transcribes quickly and is enough to see the full flow. If you don’t have one, grab any voice-over WAV from a project you’re working on.

Sign up

1. Visit voiceqc.com and click Sign Up in the top nav.

2. Enter your email and a password, then click Continue.

3. Open the email VoiceQC just sent you and copy the one-time passcode. Paste it back into the sign-up form and click Continue.

   Note

   The OTP expires after a few minutes. If you miss the window, click Resend code and try again.

4. Optional: when prompted Keep me signed in?, choose Yes if this is your own machine. Otherwise choose No.

You land on the Session page. The top nav shows Session, Logs, and Usage links — that’s how you know you’re signed in.

Upload your first audio file

1. On the Session page, find the upload area in the middle of the screen.

2. Drag a WAV file from your file manager onto the drop zone, or click the drop zone and pick a file. Only .wav files are accepted today — other formats are silently filtered out (no rejection message; the file just doesn’t appear in the Session items table).

3. As soon as the file is selected, VoiceQC starts uploading. The progress indicator changes from Progress: 0/0 to show your file in the Session items table.

Tip

You can drop multiple files at once. The Session items table populates as each file finishes uploading; transcription continues in the background per file.

Watch the transcription arrive

You don’t need to refresh. The browser holds an open connection to VoiceQC and gets a push the moment each item’s transcription is ready.

1. Wait. A short clip is usually transcribed within a few seconds; longer files take proportionally longer.

2. When transcription completes for an item, its row in the Session items table fills in with the transcribed text.

If you’d like to understand what’s happening between upload and the text appearing, see How transcription works.

Add your first Property

A Property is a piece of metadata you attach to a Session item — for example, Status / Approved. Properties are structured as a Name / Value pair. The first Property you create starts your Property library, the set of Name/Value choices everyone on your account reuses when tagging.

1. In the Session items table, find the row for your transcribed file.

2. In the Actions column, click + Property.

3. The Property editor opens. Since this is your first Property, the editor shows empty fields. Fill in:

   • Name — for example, Status
   • Value — for example, Approved

4. Click Create. The Property library is updated and the editor switches to a dropdown view with your new Name and Value pre-selected.

5. Click Save to assign the Property to this Session item.

A colored chip appears on the row showing your Property. You can click the × on the chip to remove it, or expand the row (click the chevron) to add more Properties.

What did you just do?

• Signed up by verifying your email with a one-time passcode.
• Uploaded a WAV file and let VoiceQC transcribe it.
• Watched the transcription appear automatically — no polling, no refresh.
• Started your Property library by creating your first Name/Value pair, and applied it as a tag.

Where to next

Upload more audio

Read the Upload audio files how-to for what’s supported, what isn’t, and what happens to files behind the scenes.

Build your Property library

The Build your Property library how-to covers Name/Value design and when to add a new Name versus extending an existing one.

Share what you've got

The Share a Session tutorial shows how to send a read-only magic link to a teammate or external reviewer.

See the full glossary

The Glossary defines every term — Session, Property, Auto-rule, Share, Usage period, and more.