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# Correct speaker names

Speaker correction is most useful when you plan to download the transcript or create a video. It helps the text you take from SeeGov—and the text SeeGov generates for your video—use a clearer name.

You do not need to identify every speaker just to review a meeting.

## Correct a speaker

1. Find the speaker label beside a transcript segment.
2. Choose its edit icon to open **Correct Speaker Information**.
3. Select the speaker type.
4. Search for an existing person or enter the requested name information.
5. Check the preview, then choose **Save**.

![The Correct Speaker Information dialog with speaker type, name, preview, and Unknown Speaker controls](/files/eCKfPO19CHclz7S4KjrN)

The corrected name appears anywhere that speaker ID is used in the meeting transcript.

## One speaker ID can cover many segments

Speech recognition assigns an ID to a detected voice, and that ID may appear in many transcript segments. Correcting it once can update every matching segment. That is helpful when the same council member speaks throughout a meeting.

Sometimes the system uses one ID for more than one person—for example, several public commenters at the same microphone. In that case, applying one person's name to every segment would make the transcript less accurate.

## When Unknown Speaker is safer

Choose **Mark as Unknown Speaker** when:

* the recording does not make the person's identity clear;
* more than one person appears to share the same speaker ID;
* the visible or spoken name conflicts with an earlier identification; or
* you are not confident enough to attach a real person's name.

An honest **Unknown Speaker** is better than a confident but incorrect attribution.

## What the correction changes

A correction improves the working transcript and can help downloaded transcripts, generated introductions, subtitles, and other text that refers to the speaker. It may also help SeeGov recognize the person in future meetings.

It does not change the source recording, and it does not prove the speaker's identity. Verify important attributions from the meeting, agenda, government roster, or another reliable source.


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