Field guide: main_participant

main_participant gets its own category because, unlike all other attributes, it’s a property of both the participant and the transcript. For more information about how attributes work, and what the columns in the following table means, read the attribute typology.

Display title	Export name	Filterable	Multiple values
Main Participant	main_participant	False	False

On transcript pages, main participants’ utterances are bolded in the transcript body.

When exporting a formatted transcript from the transcripts page, main_participant shows up in the Participant column.