If you’ve ever hosted a conference or industry event, you know the frustration of watching AI-generated summaries fumble key terms. You’re running a medical symposium, a FinTech summit, or an aerospace forum, and suddenly, “pharmacokinetics” turns into “pharma kinetics.” A cybersecurity discussion on “zero-day vulnerabilities” gets misinterpreted as “zero day availabilities.”
These aren’t minor errors. They distort the meaning of expert-led discussions, misrepresent key insights, and ultimately, reduce the value of post-event reports.
Most AI-powered event tools are designed for general conversations. They work fine for everyday language but struggle when faced with industry jargon, product names, or technical terminology. For highly specialized events, that’s a dealbreaker.
This is exactly why Snapsight developed Custom Vocabulary – a feature designed to help AI understand the language of your industry as fluently as your attendees.
Why AI Falls Short at Specialized Events
Most AI-based event insights and transcripts rely on speech-to-text technology to capture conversations, analyze sentiment, and extract key takeaways. But without an understanding of industry-specific language, AI can only guess. In technical fields, that guesswork leads to messy transcriptions, inaccurate analytics, and lost engagement opportunities.
At high-stakes events, these errors impact how well attendees, speakers, and sponsors engage with post-event content. A poorly transcribed keynote distorts its core message. Misclassified discussions dilute valuable insights. An AI-generated summary that misinterprets key terms makes it harder for event organizers to showcase the true value of their sessions.
So how do you teach AI to recognize and interpret the specialized language of your industry?
Custom Vocabulary: AI That Understands Your Event
Snapsight’s Custom Vocabulary feature allows event organizers to upload a glossary of up to 250 industry-specific terms per project. This ensures the AI accurately recognizes, transcribes, and analyzes discussions, rather than misinterpreting technical concepts.
It works by integrating your custom terms into Snapsight’s speech-to-text engine. Once uploaded, these terms become part of the AI’s reference framework, improving both real-time and post-event insights.
For a medical conference, this means AI-powered summaries reflect complex discussions on immunotherapy, biologics, or CAR-T cell therapy, rather than producing confusing approximations. At an aerospace summit, the AI correctly identifies terms like hypersonic propulsion, aerodynamic stability, or Mach 5, so technical insights aren’t lost in translation. And at a blockchain event, discussions on DeFi, smart contracts, or layer 2 scaling are categorized correctly, making transcripts far more accurate.
The result? Sharper transcriptions, more precise takeaways, and event reports that genuinely reflect the knowledge shared on stage.
Beyond Transcriptions: Why Custom Vocabulary Matters
For event professionals, the impact of Custom Vocabulary extends well beyond improving AI-generated transcripts.
When AI understands industry-specific language, it produces more precise session takeaways, cleaner transcripts, and sharper idea clouds. This means post-event reports reflect the true depth of discussions, without misinterpretations watering down key insights.
This precision also enhances content repurposing. When transcriptions are correct from the start, event teams can easily turn them into blog posts, social media content, or whitepapers without spending hours cleaning up errors. The ability to trust AI-generated content saves time and ensures thought leadership pieces retain their original intent.
Getting Started with Custom Vocabulary
Adding Custom Vocabulary to Snapsight is a straightforward process:
- Prepare your glossary – Create a .CSV or .TXT file with up to 250 key industry terms.
- Upload to Snapsight – Go to Project Settings > Custom Vocabulary and upload your file.
- Let AI learn – Snapsight integrates the terms into its recognition models, improving accuracy in transcriptions and insights.
- Refine as needed – Before each event, update your glossary to capture new industry trends and evolving terminology.
For organizers running multiple events across different industries, Snapsight allows easy switching between vocabulary lists, ensuring each event benefits from the most relevant terminology.
AI That Speaks Your Language
Specialized events demand specialized insights. With Snapsight’s Custom Vocabulary, you’re no longer at the mercy of generic AI, you control how your event’s language is understood.
Instead of spending time correcting AI-generated errors, you can focus on delivering more precise event reports and better post-event content.
So go ahead, let the experts speak their language. Snapsight will make sure AI actually understands it.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is Snapsight’s Custom Vocabulary?
It’s a feature that lets you upload industry-specific terms, product names, and technical jargon to Snapsight’s AI, ensuring accurate transcriptions and summaries for specialized events.
Why do I need Custom Vocabulary?
Most AI transcription tools struggle with industry-specific language, often misinterpreting key terms. Custom Vocabulary helps Snapsight recognize and correctly process technical terms, ensuring precise insights.
How many custom terms can I add?
You can upload up to 250 terms per project. For multi-industry events, you can easily switch between different vocabulary lists.
What formats does Snapsight accept for vocabulary uploads?
You can upload your glossary as a .CSV or .TXT file.
How does Snapsight use my Custom Vocabulary?
Once uploaded, your terms are integrated into Snapsight’s speech-to-text engine, improving real-time and post-event transcriptions, summaries, and analytics.
How do I get started with Custom Vocabulary?
Create a .CSV or .TXT file with up to 250 terms, upload it in Snapsight’s Project Settings under Custom Vocabulary, and let the AI process your terms. You can update your glossary anytime to keep up with industry changes.
