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What you get

What you can study from

Summary and thesis

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Chapters with start times

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Questions with answers

Questions the lecture answers, with the answer drawn from what the lecturer said and the time it was said.

Names, numbers and terms

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Study notes as Word or PDF

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Quiz

Multiple-choice questions written from the transcript. Free with an account, no pack needed for the quiz itself.

Ask

Ask what the lecturer said about a topic and get the answer with its timestamp.

Format

What the notes look like

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Introductory microeconomics, lecture 4: price elasticity (52 min)

Thesis

Elasticity measures how strongly buyers react to a price change, and whether a price rise increases revenue depends on it.

Summary

2:10 The lecturer defines price elasticity of demand as the percentage change in quantity divided by the percentage change in price.
14:45 Necessities and goods with few substitutes are inelastic; luxuries and goods with close substitutes are elastic.
31:20 When demand is inelastic, a price rise increases total revenue; when it is elastic, revenue falls.

Chapters

0:00 Recap of supply and demand
2:10 Defining elasticity
14:45 What makes demand elastic
31:20 Elasticity and total revenue
44:05 Worked exam question

Questions this recording answers

20:30 Why is demand for petrol inelastic in the short run? Because drivers have few substitutes in the short run, so the quantity bought changes little when the price rises.
44:05 If elasticity is -2 and price rises 5%, what happens to quantity? Quantity falls by about 10%, so total revenue falls.

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Step by step

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What it costs

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Recording	Minutes	Pack	What it uses
One 50-minute lecture	50 min	The $4 pack of 500 minutes	Uses 50 of its minutes, about $0.40 worth; 450 minutes stay for later
One 90-minute lecture	90 min	The $4 pack of 500 minutes	Uses 90 of its minutes, about $0.72 worth; 410 minutes stay for later
A week of 6 lectures, 1 hour each	360 min	The $4 pack of 500 minutes	Uses 360 of its minutes, about $2.88 worth; 140 minutes stay for later
A term of 30 lectures, 75 minutes each	2,250 min	The $24 pack of 5,000 minutes	Uses 2,250 of its minutes, about $10.80 worth; 2,750 minutes stay for later

Prices from /pricing, read 2026-10-25.

Measured

How long the summary takes

Seconds from the finished transcript to the written summary, for 746 summaries written in production between 2026-09-29 and 2026-10-26.

Recording length	Summaries	Half ready within	9 in 10 ready within
Under 10 minutes	218	34 s	82 s
10 to 60 minutes	245	61 s	165 s
1 to 3 hours	199	50 s	104 s
Over 3 hours	84	41 s	75 s

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What the free preview includes

Every recording starts with a free preview of its opening minutes; a pack from $4 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export.
Pay for a recording and its summary, chapters and questions are always written from the whole transcript.
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Honest limits

What it will not do

A summary needs at least a minute of speech. In the 28 days to 26 October 2026, 206 of 977 recordings were too short, and 25 more had no usable speech (music, silence or a looping line); those get the transcript only.
A summary is written by an AI model from the automatic transcript. It can miss nuance or get a detail wrong, so check anything you will rely on against its timestamp.
Names in the summary and quotes are inferred from what people say. Check them before you publish.
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Board work and slides are not in the audio. If the lecturer points and says 'this one', the notes cannot see what was meant.
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The summary is text on the page; there is no spoken version.

Questions people ask first

Lecture notes, answered

Can I turn a lecture recording into notes automatically?

Yes. Upload the recording and the summary, chapters and questions are written from the whole transcript once it is open. Signed in, the Resources tab saves study notes as Word or PDF.

How long a lecture can I upload?

Up to 10 hours or 5 GB per file. A 3-hour seminar or a recorded teaching day is one upload.

Does it make a quiz from the lecture?

Yes, when you are signed in. The quiz is written from the transcript and needs an account, not a pack.

How much does a term of lectures cost?

Thirty 75-minute lectures are 2,250 minutes, which fits in the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes with room for next term. Credits never expire.

Does it work for lectures in other languages?

Yes, in 99+ languages. The notes are written in the lecture's language and can be read in your browser's language.

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