What's new...

NVivo Transcription is regularly updated to improve the transcription service.

Improvements included in recent updates are listed below.

3.0.3 – September 2024

• Updates for vulnerabilities and improvements to security measures.

3.0.2 – April 2024

• Updated NVivo cloud transcription plugin to support Transcription users with multiple accounts.

3.0.1 – July 2023

• Updated language packs for Bashkir, Basque, Belarusian, Esperanto, Estonian, Galician, Interlingua, Marathi, Mongolian, Tamil, Thai, Uyghur, Vietnamese, and Welsh.

3.0 – April 2022

• Security and platform upgrades.

• Assorted bug fixes.

2.4 – March 2022

• User interface enhancements to Files page.

• Enhancements to media file upload—Added options to automate transcription as soon as the files are uploaded using Auto-transcribe.

• Added support to transcribe multiple media files, export multiple transcripts, and create folders to organize transcripts. For more information, see Bulk transcribe, Bulk export transcripts, and Organize transcripts.

• Assorted bug fixes.

2.3 – November 2021

• Added copy, cut, and paste to the transcription editor Editing page.

• Enhancements to myNVivo login: two-step verification, social-media account login, and use for all QSR International products. See myNVivo in NVivo release 1 Help for more information.

• Assorted bug fixes.

2.2 – May 2021 

• Transcription website now transcribes video as well as audio files (after transcription only audio is stored with transcripts) Supported media file formats.

• Automated voice recognition to identify speakers has been improved Tag speakers.

• Improved interface for tagging speakers Tag speakers.

• User interface enhancements to meet Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 standard.

• Updated language packs for Arabic and Swedish.

• New rules for deletion of data in unused accounts File deletion.

• Assorted bug fixes.

2.1 – January 2021 

• User interface changes to meet Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 standard.

• Added success/failure notifications when a file is transcribed.

1.27 – September 2020 

• Added the NVivo Transcription dictionary, allowing you to 'teach' the app words, names, acronyms or phrases that you want transcribed a particular way. For example, you can configure the dictionary to transcribe the spoken words 'saynt are no' as St Arnaud. Dictionary

• Added find and replace to the Editing page, to help correcting mis-transcribed terms. Editing page You can optionally add find and replace terms to the dictionary. Add 'find and replace' terms

• Added online Help. New Support menu has links to the Help and interface tours.

1.26 – July 2020 

• Added keyboard shortcuts for editing:

  • Save: Ctrl/⌘ + S

  • Rewind 5 seconds: Ctrl + Alt/Option + R

• On editing page, show keyboard shortcuts as tooltips when hovering over editing commands.

• Click column headers (File, Duration, Modified) on the Files page to order files in ascending or descending order by name (alphabetical), duration, or date last modified.

  

1.25 – April 2020 

• NVivo Transcription now attempts to identify the different speakers within a file, labeling them as SPEAKER1, SPEAKER2 etc.

  

• Simplified Chinese added as an interface language.

• Added a message to transcripts informing users when the associated media files have been deleted (media files are deleted 90 days after their transcripts were created or last edited).

1.24 – April 2020

• Removed app time-out—NVivo Transcription now remains active for as long as it is open in the browser.

• Added timestamps to DOCX transcript export. Transcripts are now exported in tables with columns for speaker, timestamp and content.

• When changing speaker names in the Edit page you can now select Replace all to replace all instances of a particular name with a new name. For example, if changing the name of SPEAKER2 to the respondent's actual name, select Replace all to replace every instance of SPEAKER2 in the transcript to the name you enter.

  

1.23 – March 2020

• NVivo Transcription is linked to the new myNVivo portal for transcription purchases and to change the Transcription interface language.

• Users can switch between myNVivo accounts from the main menu.

• Users' data is stored in one of four regions: Africa, Europe and the Middle East in Europe, the United States and Central and South America in the United States, Canada in Canada and Asia, Australasia and the Pacific Islands in Singapore.

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