Custom vocabulary
How to make Video Tap transcribe names, brands, and jargon correctly the first time.
Why it matters
Section titled “Why it matters”A wrong name in the transcript becomes a wrong name in the blog post, captions, social posts, and email. It’s worth a few minutes of setup to avoid fixing the same mistake everywhere later.
Where to set it
Section titled “Where to set it”Both Custom Vocabulary and Custom Spelling live in Settings, under Custom Spelling and Vocabulary Settings. They apply across your whole workspace and to every future upload. There is no per-video override.
Custom Vocabulary
Section titled “Custom Vocabulary”This tells the transcription engine to expect specific words. Useful for:
- Company and product names
- Recurring guest names
- Industry jargon
- Acronyms
- Foreign words or place names
Click + Add New Vocabulary and enter each term. You can add a single word or a whole phrase.
A few caveats:
- Common English words don’t need to be added.
- For names you’ll only mention once, it’s easier to fix them in the transcript editor afterwards.
Custom Spelling
Section titled “Custom Spelling”Vocabulary helps the engine recognize a term. Custom Spelling controls how that term appears in the final transcript. Mainly useful for capitalization and brand styling.
Examples:
iphonebecomesiPhonevideo tapbecomesVideo TapchatgptbecomesChatGPT
Click + Add New Word, enter the misspelling, then the correct version.
- Add phonetic variants. If your name is “Dane” but people sometimes hear “Dean,” add both to Vocabulary.
- Test with one video first. Run a short test upload before bulk processing to confirm it’s working.
- Update as you go. When you fix a name in a transcript, decide whether it belongs in Vocabulary or Spelling.
What this won’t fix
Section titled “What this won’t fix”- Poor audio quality. If the audio is unclear, vocabulary can’t compensate.
- Wrong language detection. Set Preferred Language in Settings instead.
- Speaker attribution. Vocabulary doesn’t identify who said what.
Cleaning up an existing transcript
Section titled “Cleaning up an existing transcript”For one-off corrections to a video that’s already been processed, the Find and Replace tool in the transcript editor changes a term throughout the document at once. Faster than vocabulary for cleanup work.