[gregjwild]

We (Manning Publications) added transcripts as a pretty central feature of our video platform. I'd be pretty interested to hear what you thought. A lot of our customers asked for this when we were researching what they wanted, so I'm always interested to see if people outside our usual user base like what we've done: https://livevideo.manning.com/module/31_1_2/algorithms-in-mo...?

[modernerd]

This is excellent — I love the link between the transcript and the video. Being able to click the text and jump to that point in the video works fluidly; I can read ahead and jump to things I want to see explained visually. The presentation of the transcript is also much better than the broken-line-by-line approach that others such as YouTube take: https://d.pr/i/WvrOX5.

This is the perfect combination of ebook and video for me, and I didn't know Manning was doing this. Some minor feedback:

- I wish the transcript text size could be increased without affecting the rest of the UI (which seems fine). Maybe it can and I missed it, or I need to be logged in?

- I see “pause on try its” in the page options (it's checked and disabled) but couldn't find any videos that use this. This feature sounds like it would greatly enhance the learning experience and it should be part of all videos. I learn a lot more when actively trying things than when passively watching and reading, and few online courses combine video and text transcripts with hands-on opportunities well.

I just bought Algorithms in Motion on the back of this experience, though, (plus a couple of books I'd been considering) and am looking forward to going through the whole course.

[gregjwild]

Glad to hear it!

> - I wish the transcript text size could be increased without affecting the rest of the UI (which seems fine). Maybe it can and I missed it, or I need to be logged in?

Totally agreed we need this. I've passed this feedback onto the developers (I'm in editorial here).

> - I see “pause on try its” in the page options (it's checked and disabled) but couldn't find any videos that use this. This feature sounds like it would greatly enhance the learning experience and it should be part of all videos. I learn a lot more when actively trying things than when passively watching and reading, and few online courses combine video and text transcripts with hands-on opportunities well.

Yep, we're still experimenting with this feature. I think you'll see us using it much, much more in future content.

[jasonlotito]

> Totally agreed we need this. I've passed this feedback onto the developers (I'm in editorial here).

As a customer, I've been seeing the changes they've been doing over the years, and absolutely love the work they've done. At every stage, you can see the attention and care to simple things that make the Manning site a pleasure and the experience better and better. Tell them to keep up the good work.

[smsm42]

This is super-awesome. Any chance you get all the online course providers (like Coursera) to adopt this ASAP? :) The only thing that is missing there now is the ability to make bookmarks, and have those to be able to reference externally (i.e. go to bookmark by URL) and the thing is very close to perfect. Oh, and maybe also make an option to do horizontal split instead of vertical - since most videos are wider than they are tall you get bigger video with the same split.

[highace]

Woah, this is really cool. I like how it highlights the text in blocks as it's being spoken. Did you build this in-house?

[gregjwild]

Glad to hear it! :)

It's in-house, yes. Interestingly, the original code base was designed to tie book text to audio-book readings, which we use in our liveBook platform. There's various third-party libraries in play for some of it, but other than that we've built it all in-house.

[h2onock]

As others have already said, this is awesome, nicely done.