Glossary
Interactive (click-to-seek) transcript
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Interactive (click-to-seek) transcript: An interactive transcript plays in sync with the video: the current line is highlighted as it is spoken, and clicking any line moves the video to that moment.
YouTube's own transcript panel does a basic version: a list of timed caption lines beside the video, where clicking a line seeks to it.
A reading-oriented version joins captions into paragraphs, adds chapters and speaker turns, and follows along automatically, so you can read ahead, skim back, or study with the video as the reference.
Extractor websites that give you a block of text to copy usually do not have this; it needs a player and the timings kept with the text.
How WithTranscript handles it
This is the core of WithTranscript: paragraphs, chapters and speaker turns synced to the video, with click-to-seek on every line.