Guidde: Quickly Create AI-Driven Video Tutorials and Documentation

Guidde is a platform that utilizes generative AI technology to help users quickly create video tutorials and documentation. It simplifies the video production process and makes it easy for users with no design or video editing experience to create professional how-to guides. With support for automated screen recording, voice-over and subtitle generation, and easy-to-use editing tools, Guidde is ideal for enterprise teams to dramatically increase productivity for customer support, employee training, and new feature demonstrations. Users can quickly record any software operation with a browser extension, with an average production time of just 3 minutes. guidde also supports multi-language voice and branding customization for customer success, sales and product teams. The platform claims to help users save more than 12 hours per week and is a favorite among customer success, IT and HR teams worldwide.

Function List

• AI-driven video recording: Automatically capture on-screen actions and generate videos with highlighting and labeling.
• AI-generated voice narration: Support for more than 100 languages and accents, text-to-speech, and generation of natural voice-overs.
• Drag-and-drop video editing: Provides an intuitive editing interface, similar to PowerPoint, to add shapes, text, etc.
• Automatic generation of knowledge documents: Convert videos into knowledge base articles with step-by-step descriptions to reduce manual organization.
• Brand Customization: Support for custom branding styles to ensure that videos and documents conform to the corporate image.
• Privacy: Sensitive information can be blurred to protect data security.
• video analysis: Provide data such as viewing hours and total views to optimize content effectiveness.
• Multi-platform sharing: Support for embedding videos into knowledge bases, social media or sharing via GIFs to Slack, email, etc.
• Teamwork: Supports team sharing, editing and searching of video content for more efficient collaboration.

Using Help

Installation process

Guidde offers Chrome and Microsoft Edge browser extensions that are easy to install:

1. interviews Guidde official website Or the Chrome Web App Store, search for "Guidde - Magically create video documentation".
2. Click the "Add to Chrome" or "Get" button and the browser will automatically download and install the extension.
3. Once the installation is complete, the Guidde icon will appear in your browser toolbar. Click on the icon to log in or register for a Guidde account (Google or corporate email login supported).
4. After logging in, the extension will prompt to set the branding style (e.g. corporate logo, color), which can be skipped to set later.
5. After installation, click the "Capture" button in the extension to start recording.

Using the main functions

1. Quick recording video tutorials

• Start recordingTo do this: Open the software you want to demonstrate, click on the Guidde icon in the browser toolbar and select "Capture". Guidde will automatically record screen actions, capturing mouse clicks and keyboard input.
• Auto Highlight: During recording, Guidde's AI recognizes key actions (e.g., button clicks) and automatically adds highlights and annotations to sharpen the focus.
• End recording: By clicking on the "Stop" button, Guidde generates a first draft of the video with automatically generated subtitles and step-by-step instructions.
• Operating tips: Try to work as slowly as possible while recording to ensure that the AI captures each step accurately. After recording, you can preview to make sure the content is complete.

2. Editing videos and documents

• drag-and-drop editing: Enter the Guidde editing interface, which is similar to PowerPoint and allows you to drag and drop to add text boxes, arrows, shapes, etc., and to adjust the order of the steps.
• Adding a voice-over narrationText-to-Voice: Select the "Text-to-Voice" function, input text, select language and accent (e.g. Mandarin Chinese, American English). You can adjust the speed of speech and pause to generate a natural voice-over.
• Blurring sensitive information: Select the "Blur" tool in the editing interface to automatically blur sensitive areas of the screen (e.g., personal information, passwords) to protect privacy.
• save in real time: The edited content will be saved automatically and the effect can be previewed at any time. Users can return to make changes at any time without worrying about data loss.

3. Generating knowledge documentation

• Auto-generated articles: Once the recording is complete, Guidde converts the video into a knowledge base article with step-by-step descriptions. Each step corresponds to an action in the video and contains a text description and a screenshot.
• export format: Supports export to HTML, Markdown or PDF for easy embedding into corporate knowledge bases or Learning Management Systems (LMS).
• Operating tips: Check the automatically generated text description to ensure that the steps are clearly described. If you need to make adjustments, you can manually edit the text or re-record part of the clip.

4. Sharing and collaboration

• Share Video: Click the "Share" button to generate a video link or embed code that can be embedded directly into a website, Slack, or email. Support convert video to GIF for quick sharing.
• Teamwork: Within the Guidde platform, team members can search for existing videos, reuse them or co-edit them. Support for adding comments and optimizing content.
• Analyzing dataView the video's watch duration, total views and unique visitors in the Analytics panel to see how viewers are interacting with the video.

5. Brand customization and multilingual support

• Setting up branding styles: Upload a corporate logo and select a brand color in the account settings, and a uniform style will be automatically applied to all videos and documents.
• multilingual narrator: Supports more than 100 languages, suitable for global teams. After recording, select the target language and the AI will generate the corresponding voice narration.
• Operating tips: To ensure that the narration is natural, it is recommended to use concise sentences and avoid complex terminology when entering text.

Featured Function Operation

AI-generated voice narration

• Select the "Voiceover" option in the editing screen and enter the text to be narrated.
• Select the language and accent (e.g. Chinese Mandarin female voice), click "Generate" to generate the voice.
• Preview the narration effect, adjust the speed of speech or re-enter the text to optimize the pronunciation.
• Tip: To avoid a mechanical feel, it is recommended to add appropriate intonation or stop signs (e.g. commas) to the text.

Privacy

• In the editing interface, click the "Blur" tool, drag the mouse to select the area that needs to be blurred (such as the user name in the input box).
• Real-time preview of blurring effect, save it after confirmation. Support applying uniform blur settings to the whole video.
• Tip: Check that all sensitive information has been blurred, especially the parts involving customer data.

video analysis

• Select "Analytics" in the Guidde dashboard to see viewing data for each video.
• Data includes average watch length, total views and unique visitors. Can be filtered by timeframe (e.g., last 30 days).
• Tip: Optimize video length based on analytics and prioritize retaining the parts that are of high interest to viewers.

caveat

• Browser compatibility: The Guidde extension currently supports Chrome and Edge, not Firefox or Safari.
• Free Plan Limitations: The free version supports up to 25 videos and is suitable for individuals or small teams to try. More features require subscription to a paid plan.
• network requirement: Recording and editing requires a stable internet connection to avoid interruptions that affect saving.

application scenario

1. Customer Support
   Guidde helps customer success teams quickly create tutorials on how to use the product and answer frequently asked questions. Support staff can record how-to videos and embed them in the knowledge base or send them directly to customers, reducing duplication of answer time.
2. Staff Training
   Organizational HR or training teams can use Guidde to create new hire onboarding videos or how-to guides for the software. The videos are multilingual and suitable for global teams, ensuring that training content is consistent and easy to understand.
3. New Feature Demo
   Product teams can quickly record demo videos of new features, share them on social media or embed them on product pages. auto-generated AI highlights and voice-overs make demos more professional and increase user interest.
4. knowledge management
   Teams can organize Guidde videos into knowledge bases for easy search and reuse. It supports Markdown and HTML exporting, which is suitable for enterprise learning management systems and improves the efficiency of knowledge transfer.

QA

1. What browsers does Guidde support?
   Chrome and Microsoft Edge extensions are currently supported, not Firefox or Safari.
2. What are the limitations of the free version?
   The free version allows the creation of up to 25 videos, and some of the advanced features (e.g. advanced analytics, more language options) require a subscription to a paid plan.
3. How do I secure sensitive information in my videos?
   Guidde offers a "Blur" tool to manually or automatically blur sensitive information on the screen, such as usernames, passwords, etc.
4. Can I work in teams to edit videos?
   Can. Team members can share, search and co-edit videos within the Guidde platform, with support for adding comments to optimize content.
5. What languages are supported for voice narration?
   Supports more than 100 languages and accents, including Mandarin Chinese, English, Korean, etc. for global users.