diff --git a/sktalk/corpus/conversation.py b/sktalk/corpus/conversation.py
index b10f8be..df00c92 100644
--- a/sktalk/corpus/conversation.py
+++ b/sktalk/corpus/conversation.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import os
 import json
-from dataclasses import asdict
+
 
 class Conversation:
     def __init__(
@@ -46,6 +46,12 @@ def summarize(self):
         for utterance in self._utterances[:10]:
             print(utterance)
 
+    def asdict(self):
+        utt_list = [u.asdict() for u in self._utterances]
+        conv_dict = self._metadata.copy()
+        conv_dict["Conversation"] = utt_list
+        return conv_dict
+
     def write_json(self, name, directory):
         """
         Write a conversation to a JSONL file.
@@ -58,7 +64,7 @@ def write_json(self, name, directory):
         name = f"{name}.jsonl"
         destination = os.path.join(directory, name)
 
-        utt_list = [asdict(u) for u in self._utterances]
+        utt_list = [u.asdict() for u in self._utterances]
         conv_dict = self._metadata.copy()
         conv_dict["Conversation"] = utt_list
 
diff --git a/sktalk/corpus/utterance.py b/sktalk/corpus/utterance.py
index 57b7c96..afcf8de 100644
--- a/sktalk/corpus/utterance.py
+++ b/sktalk/corpus/utterance.py
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ class Utterance:
     def get_audio(self):
         pass
 
+    def asdict(self):
+        return asdict(self)
 
     # TODO function: that prints summary of data, shows it to user
     # TODO function: create a pandas data frame with the utterances