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 Create a session page, find the upload area in the middle of the screen.

2. Drag a WAV file from your file manager onto the Audio Files 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. If you have a script drag the CSV file from your file manager onto the Scripts CSV. Click View format guide for info about the format of your CSV.

4. Once files have been uploaded click next to move to the Confirm screen.

5. You should now be looking at the Confirm screen which is an intermediate step before starting the transcription. This screen allows you to verify you have added the expected number of files and lines of dialogue. If everythinkg is looking good then proceed to click Start Transcription

Tip

If you are unsure on how to format the script document look for the View format guide link on the upload screen.

Add your first Session Properties

A Session Property is a piece of metadata you attach to a Session — for example, Status / Approved. Properties are structured as a Name / Value pair. A property can show the status of these files ( Review, Approved ) or other informaton such as character names, projects titles or anything else that would be useful.

Tip

There are two types of Properties. Session Properties which apply to a grouping of audio files and scripts and *Session Line Properties that apply to individual lines of dialogue within a session.

1. Once the files are uploaded and transcribed and before moving to the main session screen you can add Session properties. A session property applies to the group of audio files and script lines that were just uploaded and transcribed.

2. Under Suggest Properties click one of the status properties to add it. If you create you own custom properties they will also show up on this screen.

3. Once you are happy with the properties click Finish to proceed to the main session screen.

What did you just do?

• Signed up by verifying your email with a one-time passcode.
• Uploaded WAV files and scripts.
• Verified the correct number of items have been uploaded.
• Added your first Session Property

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.