The habits that make Taperat noticeably smarter, and a checklist for your first 15 minutes.
Before importing your entire collection of recordings, try a game or two. Transcribe them, or run the Perception Engine on them, to get to know the layout of the app. If you have used a video editor like DaVinci Resolve or Premiere Pro, you will feel right at home.
After every Perception Engine run you get a summary, where you can correct character detections and scene findings, and look through the transcript and the diarisation (who spoke when). Don’t skip it, and where you can, fix the outliers.
When it asks “Is Speaker 2 Elara?”, a quick Keep or Not this teaches it more than any setting. It will save you hours of work later.
Voice fingerprints get better the more you teach them. Start with scenes where fewer than four characters talk, and correct what the Perception Engine detected there. Every correction helps it recognise your characters later.
Once a voice has a fingerprint, Taperat picks it out of bigger groups too, and everything else improves with it.
The Perception Engine already recognises characters when others call them by name. To make detection golden, play with subtitles on, ideally with speaker names shown, if the game offers it.
Don’t want to play the whole game like that? A handful of clips with subtitles is already enough to pin a voice to a name.
If the game lets you, turn music and effects down a little and keep voices up. Clear speech means cleaner transcripts and stronger fingerprints.
Using an external agent locally? Great! You can use any agent you like through MCP Bridge. Clearly named and tagged slices and recordings let your agent find exactly what it needs and place it straight onto a DaVinci Resolve timeline.
So give slices clear titles and put them in collections as you go. Good names help your own searches just as much.
“In this session from game X, make slices of every battle and every story beat with character Y. Separately, find the scene where character Z betrays character Y. Put them in the Story and Combat collections and tag the characters.”
Connecting an external agent or AI assistant that runs in the cloud shares your files with that service. For footage under NDA, keep MCP Bridge off or use an assistant that runs on your PC.