Do you not see a transcript button? The media does not have a transcript if there is no button for the transcription panel. It may be waiting for the transcript to finish and be returned, or your institution does not have automatic transcription enabled. You may want to enable closed captions for the media if your institution uses captions instead of transcripts.

Some media will have a transcription of the spoken text available for viewing. Viewing the speech's text and the video / audio can help reinforce understanding and retention of the material. In addition, the transcript can be searched to find specific locations in the media to review and can be downloaded to augment your study materials.

Click the Transcript button, identified in both of the figures below. By default, the transcript panel opens to the right of the player.

As the media plays, the transcript location corresponding to the media location is highlighted. This is also shown in the below figures.

The transcript button for the player is located with the other tools at the bottom of the playback panel, as identified in the figure below.

The transcript button for the legacy classroom player is located at the top right of the classroom window, along with the other classroom tools, as shown below.

Interactive Media Transcripts: Students opening the transcript panel will only see the portion up to any unanswered polls. While the transcript panel will open, the transcript text is gated by the polling questions, just like the video is. Furthermore, the transcript cannot be downloaded by students until they have responded to all of the embedded polls.

Search Transcripts

Notice that at the top of the Transcript panel, there is a search box. This is the same for both the legacy classroom and the new player.

Entering text into the search box immediately launches a search of the Transcript for matching terms. The number of matches changes as you type. The count of matching terms and previous / next arrow buttons appear below the search box and are identified in the figures below.

All matches in the transcript are underlined, allowing you to use the previous / next buttons or scroll through the transcript to find them. A term search and three of the eight matches are shown in the first figure below, and two of the four matches are shown in the second figure below.

Search transcripts in the newer player:

Search transcripts in the legacy classroom:

Click on any cue in the transcript, and the media playback location will change to match the location of the selected cue. This allows you to find, very specifically, the portion of the media you are looking for.

Downloading Transcripts

Transcripts can be downloaded. This provides a text file of the speech on your local computer. This may be helpful as a study aide, allowing you to review the text offline or copy and paste portions into your notes.

As stated above, students cannot download the transcript for interactive media until they have responded to all the embedded polls. Click the Download button, identified in the figure below.

The Transcript tab of the Download Assets modal appears by default. Click the TXT or VTT link to download a local of the transcript. The TXT link downloads only the speaker identifiers and the speech text, as shown in the figure at the bottom of the page. The VTT file includes the cue times for each block of speech.

In the legacy classroom, click the download icon to the left of the search box. Depending on your browser settings, the TXT file will be automatically downloaded, or you will be asked to select a location for the download.

Any downloaded transcript can be opened in any text editor. The figure below shows a downloaded TXT file that is open in Windows Notepad. Note that if a user has edited the transcript to change the speaker tags to speakers' names, the names appear instead of the Speaker # identifiers seen in the below figure.