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The ability to assess conversational interactions creates a challenge in assessing speaker turns over time, including frequency of occurrence, duration of each turn, and connecting speakers in a multispeaker context. This is of particular interest in the analysis of teacher-student or adult-child interactions in learning spaces. The creation of a visualization mechanism capable of providing a high-level representation of the overall conversational interactions without overburdening educators in reviewing student/child learning engagement would be of great significance. Chord diagrams can visualize such complex and disparate information in compact form. In this study, we explore the creation of ‘Chord Diagrams’ as a way to analyze talk time between a child and adult speakers in learning spaces. The proposed illustration provides an opportunity to study the variations in speech duration and the interaction among speakers that are involved in the communication with each other over a certain time learning duration.