Welcome to Transcript Explorer! Transcript Explorer is an open-source tool for dynamically visualizing transcripts linked to video. Explore your data with various visualization techniques, including distribution diagrams, turn charts, and contribution clouds. Animate, filter, and interact with transcript data, shift seamlessly between video clips, and rescale data using the interactive timeline. Use the top menu to explore sample datasets or upload your own and start exploring! Transcript Explorer runs entirely in your browser. No transcripts or videos are uploaded, stored, or transmitted—your data stays on your device at all times.
Transcript Explorer software is an open-source project built with Svelte, JavaScript and p5.js licensed under the GNU General Public License Version 3.0. It is developed by Ben Rydal Shapiro, Edwin Zhao, Rogers Hall, Arpit Mathur, and contributors with support from the National Science Foundation #1623690 and #2100784. Example data is from the TIMSS 1999 Video Study and the Case of Sean Numbers from Mathematics Teaching and Learning to Teach (MTLT), University of Michigan (2010) used with special permission. If using Transcript Explorer in your research, kindly reference:
Shapiro, B.R., Hall, R., Mathur, A. & Zhao, E. (2025). Exploratory Visual Analysis of Transcripts for Interaction Analysis in Human-Computer Interaction. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’25), April 26–May 01, 2025, Yokohama, Japan. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 17 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3713490