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Trace the course's key ideas through an oral exam

AI-assisted analysis of oral-exam recordings and transcripts.

No account Your own OpenAI or Anthropic key Recordings stay on your computer
The Traced view of an oral exam: participants, conversation-analysis findings, the transcript with key ideas marked, the keyword cloud and the speaking turns

What it does

From the recording to a traced analysis

For examiners reviewing oral exams, and for researchers studying dialogic teaching and classroom talk.

Key ideas from the course

Add the readings and notes, as text or PDF. The AI picks out the concepts a student could be asked to explain, with definitions, aliases and a study summary.

Found in what was said

Keyword matching that needs no AI, AI matches that catch an idea explained in other words, and hybrid matches that rate each keyword hit. Every match says why.

The conversation, laid out

Speaking time, turns and words for each participant, every turn on a timeline, and who asks, who answers and how long the pauses are.

Conversation analysis

Jefferson notation found by rule: pauses, overlaps and latching, repair, prosody. And interactional themes found by AI, under labels you define.

Transcripts from anywhere

Text, SRT, WebVTT, DOTE, Dote-Whisper and Whisper JSON. Correct the transcript, keep it in sync with the recording, and see which words the recogniser was unsure of.

Your reading, kept

Highlight passages, write notes, tag them with key ideas, mark slides against the recording. One project file holds it all, with undo and crash recovery.

How it works

Three steps

Bring in the exam

Drop the transcript and the recording on the window, and name the speakers.

Add the course material

Generate its key ideas, then find them in the transcript: by keyword, with AI, or both.

Read it traced

Work through the exam in the Traced view, and save it all as one file you keep.

The Editor: course material and key ideas, the transcript with matches marked, the waveform, and the analysis methods
The Editor, where the course material, transcript and recording come together.

AI on your terms

Your key, your choice of provider

Pay only for what you run

The app is free. AI tasks use your own OpenAI or Anthropic key, at the provider's prices, and report what each run cost. Every AI task on the guide's demo exam came to under one cent.

Only what's needed is sent

Recordings never leave your computer. The course material and transcript go only to the provider you chose, and only when you run a task. Keys are encrypted by your operating system.

Nothing is paid for twice

Results are saved with the project, and the keyword matches and notation rules need no AI at all. See what is sent.

Ready to try it?

Free, and it takes a minute to install.

Download Traced Dialogic Assessment Tool