Abstract: Methods and systems describe providing for media annotations for collaborative documents. The system receives a collaborative document based on a collaborative document platform; receives, from the client device, a user interaction of an annotation area within the collaborative document; provides one or more interactive recording components for the annotation area; receives a signal to initiate recording using at least one of the interactive recording components; generates, in response to receiving the signal to initiate recording, a media recording comprising one or more sample portions; generates a transcript based on the one or more sample portions of the generated media recording; and provides, for display on the client device, the generated media recording and the generated transcript.