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Creating Glossaries

Learn how to customize Wordly’s speech recognition

Wordly glossaries can help to improve both the accuracy of understanding what the speaker is saying and the quality of the resulting translation. By creating a glossary, you can greatly improve the recognition of names and acronyms that you use regularly.

  • Glossary terms should be as concise and unique as possible for best performance.

  • It’s important to add words, phrases, terminology, names, acronyms, and abbreviations as you expect them to be spoken aloud naturally.

  • One term per line. You must add a line-break (press Enter on your keyboard) before adding another term. It’s possible to copy and paste a list of terms into the Phrases field, as long as they’re separated with line-breaks.

    • For example, in the real world, the presenter isn’t likely to say “FBI - The Federal Bureau of Investigation”, so to transcribe this properly, the glossary should just include “FBI”.

  • Each glossary can have up (per language)
    • 1000 terms in the Boost list.
    • Unlimited terms in the Block and Replace lists.

To create a glossary

  1. From the Wordly dashboard, click Glossaries from the left side menu.
  2. Click +Add Glossary.
  3. Enter a title for the glossary.
  4. Click Set as Default if you want this glossary to be selected automatically for your future Wordly sessions. 
  5. Choose the language that the presenter will be speaking in.
  6. Add words or phrases under the following tabs:

    Boost - list of words or phrases that a speaker might say but may not be common in the language the speaker is using; important terminology for your industry or organization. 
    Block - list of words or phrases that a speaker might say that are not appropriate for or wanted in the meeting space.
    Replace - list of words or phrases that Wordly should replace with other words.

    Make sure to enter one word or phrase per line.
  7. (Optional) To add an additional language, click Add Language. Add words or phrases in that language.
  8. Click Save. 

When you have multiple languages in the same glossary Wordly may use none, any or all languages depending on the activity taking place.

Example: If the presenter is speaking English and an attendee is viewing the captions in English, only the English language section will be used. If the presenter is speaking English and an attendee is viewing the translation in Spanish, the English language section will be used to create the initial captions and the Spanish language section will be used to create the translations.

If a presenter speaks or an attendee views translations in a language that is not featured in the glossary, the Wordly session will still work, just without customized vocabulary.

Clicking the reset button deletes everything you haven't saved from the glossary.  This action can't be undone. If you're adding items to an existing glossary and click reset, only the new items are deleted.

Next Steps

You can now include your saved glossary when creating a session.

Once a session has started, the glossary attached to the session is "frozen." This means that any changes to that glossary won't be used in the session. Those changes won't take effect until the session is ended and then started again.

You should test your glossary before running your session.