Project Settings
Project Settings
Section titled “Project Settings”Every project carries settings that apply to all of its uploads. Some are fixed when the project is created; others can be changed at any time.
To see them, open your project and click Configuration. The dialog is titled Project Settings, and its first note explains the split: “Transcription settings cannot be changed after a project is created.”
Set at creation, read-only afterwards
Section titled “Set at creation, read-only afterwards”These appear greyed out in the dialog. They are shown so you can check what a project was created with.
Audio Type
Section titled “Audio Type”Chosen in the New Project wizard, and the one setting worth thinking about before you click Create:
| Audio Type | Best For | How It Helps |
|---|---|---|
| Interviews | One-on-one conversations | Optimized for 2 speakers, clear turn-taking |
| Focus Groups | Group discussions | Better handles multiple speakers, overlapping speech |
| Call Center Calls | Phone/video calls | Handles varying audio quality, echo |
Call Center Calls is also what unlocks the call-center features: COPC Evaluation, Calls Analysis, call metadata, automatic on-arrival analysis and the Call Center Report. It cannot be changed later — a project created with the wrong type has to be recreated.
Language
Section titled “Language”Language is set to Auto (automatic detection) at creation, which handles mixed-language content, and is not user-configurable.
Timestamps
Section titled “Timestamps”Word-level timestamps are always enabled at creation and are not user-configurable. They are what makes it possible to jump from a quote in an analysis result to the exact moment in the transcript.
Changeable at any time
Section titled “Changeable at any time”The rest of the dialog can be edited whenever you like. Click Save to apply.
Delete audio recordings after (days)
Section titled “Delete audio recordings after (days)”Recordings are erased permanently this many days after upload. Transcripts and analysis results are kept, so past work stays readable after the audio is gone.
Leave the field empty to follow your team’s retention policy instead of setting a per-project one.
Transcribe recordings on private infrastructure only
Section titled “Transcribe recordings on private infrastructure only”Recordings are processed by a speech recognition service operated by Uspeech and are never sent to a third-party provider.
- Transcription may take longer
- A recording that cannot be processed privately fails rather than being sent outside
- Your team can require this for every project, in which case the checkbox is switched on and locked, with a note explaining why
Applies to new transcriptions only — recordings already transcribed are unaffected.
Number of speakers
Section titled “Number of speakers”Shown underneath the private-transcription setting. It tells the recognizer how many people are on the recording instead of leaving it to work that out.
| Option | When to use it |
|---|---|
| Detect automatically | The number varies between recordings — interviews with a second participant, focus groups, calls that get transferred |
| 1–10 speakers | Every recording in the project has the same number of voices |
Stating the count exactly is both faster and more reliable: left to itself, the recognizer can split one voice across two speakers. Call projects default to 2 speakers for that reason; other project types detect automatically unless you say otherwise.
Applies to new transcriptions only.
Automatic analysis (call projects only)
Section titled “Automatic analysis (call projects only)”Call Center Calls projects also carry Analyze calls automatically as they arrive, with the analysis types, rubric and batch sizing behind it. See Automatic Analysis.