Niche-Knack

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Correct a transcript word

Fix spelling or punctuation without changing the recorded voice.

Before you start: A completed transcript with one word selected.

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Step by step

  1. Select one word

    Click the word you want to fix, then choose Correct word. A correction field opens.

  2. Save the correction

    Edit the spelling or punctuation and choose Save correction. This changes the transcript text; it does not synthesize replacement audio.

  3. Undo a correction

    Return focus to the transcript and press Ctrl + Z if you want the previous wording back.

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Open a word correction. Open full size

  1. Correct word edits the selected word’s text.
Clip Dr. showing save the text correction

Save the text correction. Open full size

  1. The corrected word remains linked to its original recording.
Read the video instructions
  1. Fix a recognition mistake while keeping the recorded voice unchanged.
  2. 1. Select one word, then choose Correct word.
  3. 2. Edit the spelling or punctuation. Save correction updates the transcript text.
  4. 3. Undo restores the previous wording. Change spoken words is a separate preview workflow.
  5. Transcript corrections are reversible. They do not replace the speaker’s audio.
Audio credits

LibriSpeech excerpts 1688-142285-0007 and 1272-128104-0000, collected by Vassil Panayotov, Guoguo Chen, Daniel Povey, and Sanjeev Khudanpur from LibriVox, are used under CC BY 4.0. Excerpts have been trimmed, resampled, padded, or processed. The voice-replacement example uses an original synthetic voice.