The Scenario
You ran a 90-minute customer discovery session last week. You need the full transcript — speaker by speaker, timestamp by timestamp — dropped into Google Sheets so your team can add tags, pull action items, and mark moments to revisit.
The recording is in tl;dv. The sheet already exists with the columns set up. But you've been putting off the transfer because you know what it involves: open the recording, scroll through the transcript UI, copy in chunks, paste, re-check the speaker labels, fix the timestamp format, repeat.
By the time you're done, you've spent forty minutes on a task that exists entirely so you can do the actual work.
The bad version:
- You open the tl;dv transcript view and start selecting text in blocks, because selecting the whole thing at once breaks the formatting.
- You paste into the sheet and the speaker names are on the same line as the spoken text — splitting them takes another twenty minutes.
- Halfway through, you realize the timestamps are in a different format than your sheet's time column and now you have to clean the whole thing.
The transcript is the raw material. Your job is analysis, not data entry. Spending an afternoon reformatting a transcript is not a cost this project can absorb.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Google Sheet. It reads your sheet, connects to tl;dv, and can pull a full meeting transcript with speaker labels and timestamps directly into your rows — formatted the way your sheet expects it.
Open your Google Sheet and type into the SheetXAI sidebar:
Get the full transcript for meeting ID [X] from tl;dv and paste it into my sheet starting at row 2, with column A for timestamp, column B for speaker name, and column C for spoken text — one utterance per row.
What You Get
- Column A: Timestamp in MM:SS format
- Column B: Speaker name as labeled in tl;dv
- Column C: The spoken text for that utterance
- One row per speaker turn, ready for tagging in column D
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
The meeting ID isn't in a handy format — I only have the tl;dv URL
Pull the full transcript from the tl;dv meeting at this URL: [URL] and write it into my sheet with columns for timestamp, speaker, and spoken text — one row per utterance.
I want to filter to only one speaker's lines
Get the full transcript for tl;dv meeting ID [X] and write only the lines spoken by [Speaker Name] into my sheet, with their timestamp and text in columns A and B.
The transcript is too long — I want just the first 30 minutes
Fetch the transcript for tl;dv meeting ID [X] and write only utterances with timestamps between 0:00 and 30:00 into my sheet with columns for timestamp, speaker, and text.
Pull the transcript, flag any questions, and add a "type" column
Get the full transcript for tl;dv meeting ID [X] and write each utterance into my sheet with timestamp in column A, speaker in column B, text in column C, and a "Type" label in column D — mark any utterance that ends with a question mark as "Question" and leave the rest blank.
The categorization and the pull happen in one pass. No second prompt needed.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open any Google Sheet where you're collecting discovery call data, then ask it to drop the tl;dv transcript in with speaker labels and timestamps. You can also build a highlights summary across multiple calls with the highlights spoke, or see the full tl;dv integration overview.