Transcripts on a public review link

The capability split in one line: reading works everywhere for everyone, generating needs a capable device, and the sender can settle it in advance.

Transcripts follow one capability split on public links, and knowing it saves everyone a confused email.

Reading works everywhere

If a transcript exists for a clip, every reviewer on the link can use it, on any device: the Transcript toggle sits next to comments, lines are clickable to jump the player, text is searchable, and selecting a passage starts a comment at that exact moment. Phones, tablets, locked-down corporate laptops: reading asks nothing of the hardware.

Generating needs a capable device

Creating a transcript is different, because it happens in the browser rather than on a server: audio stays private on the machine doing the work. That takes a recent Chrome or Edge on a reasonably modern computer. A reviewer on a capable device can generate a transcript when a clip has none; once one exists, it is stored with that cut and everyone reads the same one.

The sender's move: settle it in advance

The polite default for client-facing links is to pre-generate transcripts for the whole link before sending. One button queues every clip, your machine does the work once, and every reviewer gets the full reading experience regardless of what they open the link on.

If the transcribe button is greyed out on your device, the troubleshooting page explains the capability check and the workarounds.