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The Speech Analyzer transcript has no timestamps. Export the moments too.

The Transcript tab in Speech Analyzer gives you your words, a word count, and a pace label. Here is what the text export contains, what it leaves out, and how to pair it with the moments export.

October 28, 20265 min read

Most people open the Transcript tab once, skim it for typos, and leave. That is a shame, because it is the one place in the report where you can read your talk the way an organizer's assistant would read it: as plain words, with no voice to carry them.

It also has a limit that catches people out. The text export has no timestamps. If you plan to send it to a coach and say "look at the part around 12 minutes," that part is not marked.

The tab shows more than the words

Above the transcript there is a word count and a pace in words per minute, with a plain label next to it. The labels come from fixed cutoffs: under 110 is a measured pace, 110 to 150 is conversational, up to 180 is energetic, and anything above that is fast.

The pace is your word count divided by the length of the talk. That length includes your pauses. A talk with long, deliberate silences will read slower than your speaking voice actually is, and a talk trimmed tight will read faster. So the number is a prompt to go and listen, not a verdict.

Read it without the voice

Spoken delivery hides a lot. A confident tone makes a vague sentence sound fine in the room, then the same sentence sits there limp on the page. Reading the transcript cold is the cheapest edit you can run.

Try this once per talk:

Read the first 200 words and underline the first sentence that states something specific. If it is not in the first paragraph, your opening is stalling.
Search for repeated sentence starts, such as three "So" or "And" in a row. They are easy to miss when you are speaking and obvious when you are reading.
Find any sentence you cannot summarize in five words. Those are the ones audiences drift away from.

The transcript comes from automatic speech recognition, so names, acronyms, and product terms may be wrong. Fix them in your own copy before you quote anything. The score explained post covers why you should treat everything in the report as an estimate to check against the recording.

What the text export gives you

The Export .txt button at the bottom of the card downloads a plain text file. It holds the talk title, the date you analyzed it, the overall score out of 100, and the transcript. That is all.

It is good for pasting into a document, running a find and replace on your filler phrases, or reading on paper with a pen. It is not good for pointing at a moment, because there is no clock in it.

Pair it with the moments export

The Moments tab has an Export moments button that downloads a CSV. Each row has a start and end time in minutes and seconds, the engagement score, a severity, the feedback, and the suggested change. The times match the clips in the player, so they are the ones to quote to a coach.

A workable handoff looks like this. Send the text file for the full read and the CSV for the places to look. Tell your coach to open the transcript, find the words, and then use the CSV time to locate the same spot in the recording.

There is also a JSON export. It carries the transcript and the moments together in one file, with times in both minutes and seconds and raw milliseconds. Unless you are feeding the data into something else, the text file and the CSV are easier to work with.

What to do next

Open your last finished report and read the transcript through once with a pen. Mark three sentences to cut or sharpen, then export the moments and see whether any of your marks sit near a flagged dip. If they do, you have found something worth rewriting.

If you have not looked at the flagged list yet, start with the Moments tab and a short rehearsal plan, then come back to the transcript with those times in hand.

Questions

What does the Speech Analyzer text export include?

The talk title, the date it was analyzed, the overall score out of 100, and the full transcript as plain text. It does not include timestamps or the flagged moments.

How do I get the flagged moments out of Speech Analyzer?

Use Export moments on the Moments tab. It downloads a CSV with a start time, end time, score, severity, feedback, and suggestion for each flagged moment. A JSON export with the transcript and the same moments is also available.

Does the pace on the Transcript tab count my pauses?

Yes. Pace is your word count divided by the length of the talk, so silence and pauses lower it. Treat it as a rough read and listen to the recording before you decide you rushed.

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