Round Sidebar Speeches & CaptionsCopy Anchor Link

The round group in the round workspace's sidebar lists every speech in the round with its timer and word totals. It also holds the selected speech's view controls and shows captions for recorded speeches.

• Nav: /debate, left sidebar, under the selected round
• Package: debate-round (layout/LiveRoundGroup.tsx, round/my-speeches.ts, dialogs/SpeechGradeDialog.tsx, round/speech-rubric.ts), debate-timer (recorder/SpeechCaptionsTicker.tsx, recorder/SpeechTranscriptDialog.tsx, recorder/speech-captions.ts, recorder/transcript-sections.ts)

What it doesCopy Anchor Link

• View controls above the speeches. On desktop, when the sidebar shows a round, the quote view, view mode, split layout and "open speech document" buttons sit above the speech list instead of in the top bar. With no round (or on mobile) they stay in the top bar.
• Click a speech to make it active. Clicking any speech that isn't the active one opens it. In split view, a speech already in a pane becomes the active pane; otherwise the pair shifts to show it.
• Your speeches are highlighted. If your email (your signed-in account, or the "My Team" email saved in the round editor) is one of the round's debaters, the speeches you give get an amber outline and a You tag. Speeches are matched by speaker: in Policy and PF the first debater listed gives the 1A/1N (A1/N1) speeches and the second gives the 2A/2N ones. In LD, every speech on your side is yours.
• Grade a speech. Every speech row has a clipboard button (tooltip: "Grade 1AC (speaker)"). It opens a modal that scores the speech on five independent categories, 1–5 each, with a slider apiece: Organization, Evidence Quality, Argument Analysis, Clash & Strategy and Presentation Clarity. A radar chart and the /25 total (Deficient → Exceptional) update as you drag. The ⓘ beside each category says what it does and doesn't grade, and "Criteria and examples" shows what a 5 and a 3 look like. There is a notes box, a Reset button and "Copy scorecard". Grades save to the round as you go, and the row shows the total once a speech is graded.
• Captions ticker. The captions button on a speech's recording player shows the words transcribed while the speech was recorded, scrolling past the player like a ticker. The word being played is highlighted and kept centred. Click any word to jump the audio to that point. The on/off choice is remembered across speeches. The player sits on its own row under the speech's name and timer, so the ticker spans the full width of the panel.
• Full transcript. The expand button at the end of the ticker opens the whole transcript in a modal. Click any word to jump the audio there; the word being played stays highlighted and in view.
• AI sections. "Split into sections" in the transcript modal asks the AI to break the speech into titled sections (framework, each contention, each off-case, responses). The headings show above the transcript and inside it, and clicking one jumps the audio to where it starts. Sections are remembered for the speech until its transcript changes. This needs you to be signed in, like the other AI features.
• Ask the speaker to be more clear. When you judge a round (your email is one of its judges), each speech's ⋮ menu has "Tell the debater to be more clear". It pops a toast on the laptop of the debater giving that speech: "The judge has requested you be more clear." You can send it once every few seconds per speech.

Known gapsCopy Anchor Link

• Grades are stored on the round (Round.speechGrades, keyed by speech name), so they follow the round's own save and sync. They are not a separate per-grader record: two people grading the same speech overwrite each other.

• The browser's speech recognition only reports when a phrase ends, not per-word times, so word times are estimated by spreading each phrase across the time it took. Clicking a word lands close to it, not exactly on it.

• Recordings transcribed before captions existed have no phrase timings, so their words are spread evenly across the whole recording.

• Transcription needs a browser with the Web Speech API (Chrome, Edge, Safari). Elsewhere the ticker says there are no captions yet.

• AI sections are saved only in this browser (localStorage), not on the round, so other devices and other people in the round don't see them. Section starts are snapped to the transcript's ~20-word lines, so a heading can land a few words early.

• The clarity request reaches the speaker over the round's live room, so both laptops need the round open. The speaker is found from the round's debater emails; a device not seated there gets it only while its own timer for that speech is running. Only judges listed on the round see the menu item.