2 h lecture ≈ 4 min · free preview of the opening minutes

How to transcribe a 2-hour lecture for free the honest version, with the numbers.

Packs start at $4 for 300 minutes, and credits never expire. The whole lecture takes about 4 minutes to process, and any file up to 10 hours or 5 GB goes up in one piece, with or without a pack.

Packs from $4, credits never expire · then from $0.32/hour · Credits never expire · Never used to train AI

✓Free preview of the opening minutes · ✓2 hours back in about 4 min · ✓One file, no splitting · ✓Credits never expire

The steps

Get the file, read the free part, decide on the rest.

1. Get the recording

Download the lecture from your course page if the lecturer allows it, or use the phone recording you made from your seat. Many lecture-capture systems offer an MP4 or audio download; some offer only a link. A YouTube, Vimeo or Google Drive link can be pasted instead of a file.

2. Read the opening minutes

Drop the file on the upload page. The opening minutes come back free, so you can check that the lecturer's terms, names and numbers come through before you spend anything.

3. Finish it on a pack

If the preview is useful, the $4 pack of 300 minutes transcribes the rest from where the preview stopped. A 2-hour lecture is 120 minutes, so that pack holds four of them with 20 minutes over.

4. Turn it into notes

Each lecture comes back with a brief, chapters with timestamps, the names, numbers and dates said, the questions it answers, and a chat to ask what was said about a topic. Export as DOCX for notes or SRT to study alongside the video.

The free routes, honestly

Free usually means your time, a short clip, or captions you cannot export.

✗ What free often costs

The routes that cost no money tend to cost an evening, or stop short of the full two hours.

Typing it out yourself over a whole day
Short limits that cut a lecture into pieces
Captions you can watch but not download
Phone dictation running while you replay
No chapters to find the exam topics
Re-uploading parts after each cap

✓ A free preview of the opening minutes, then one small pack

Read the opening at no cost; finish the lecture and three more for six dollars.

Free preview of the opening minutes
$4 pack of 300 minutes for the rest
About 4 minutes per 2-hour lecture
One file up to 10 hours or 5 GB
Chapters to jump to each topic
TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT, JSON

Sample

A two-hour economics lecture, ninety minutes in.

Illustrative only: these lines were written for this page and come from no real course.

transcript · whipscribe.com/view/how-to-transcribe-a-2-hour-lecture-for-free

01:30:04 So when the price ceiling sits below the equilibrium, what do we expect to see in the market?

01:30:39 A shortage. Quantity demanded is higher than quantity supplied at that price.

01:31:55 Right, and this is the graph you will be asked to draw. Label both curves and the gap.

01:33:12 For next week, read chapter six up to the section on rent control.

Export

One transcript. Five clean formats.

Every pack exports all five — no format is held back for a higher tier.

.txt

Plain text

De-ummed paragraphs. Ready to paste.

.srt

SRT captions

Timed to the speech. Every video editor reads this.

.vtt

WebVTT

HTML5 player + YouTube uploads.

.docx

Show notes

Formatted with chapters and pull-quotes.

.json

Machine-readable

Timestamped text for your own tools.

Pricing

Honest pricing, no surprises.

A pack from $4 (300 minutes) opens the full transcript. After that, no subscription and no auto-renew — every tier is a one-time minute pack, and credits never expire. Buy once, use the minutes whenever you need them.

Casual pack

$4/300 min

5 hours of audio — $0.80 an hour. One-time — credits never expire.

300 minutes of audio
All export formats
AI chat over the whole transcript
Executive summary & key quote

Get 300 minutes

Best value

$18/3,000 min

50 hours of audio — $0.36 an hour. Credits never expire.

3,000 minutes of audio
Summary, chapters and key quotes
All export formats
AI chat over the whole transcript

Get 3,000 minutes

Bulk pack

$32/6,000 min

100 hours of audio — $0.32 an hour. Credits never expire.

6,000 minutes of audio
Summary, chapters and key quotes
API access for batch pipelines
All export formats

Get 6,000 minutes

FAQ

A 2-hour lecture without paying, answered.

Can I transcribe a whole 2-hour lecture for free?

Not in full here. Every recording starts with a free preview of its opening minutes; you read real lines before paying. The $4 pack of 300 minutes transcribes the rest from where the preview ended.

How long does a 2-hour lecture take?

About 4 minutes of processing, at roughly 2 minutes per audio hour, plus the upload. A 2-hour audio file is usually small; a lecture-capture video can be a gigabyte or more, so audio is quicker to send.

What does a full semester cost?

Packs start at $4 for 300 minutes. Two a week is 3,120 minutes and needs the $32 pack of 6,000 minutes. Credits never expire, so leftovers carry into the next term.

My lecture video is over 2 GB. Can I still start?

Uploads are limited to 5 GB per file; a larger file can be split or exported as audio. Or extract the audio first, which turns two hours into about 115 MB at 128 kbps. The box on this page takes up to 500 MB; larger files continue on the main upload page.

Is my lecturer allowed to be recorded?

Check your course's recording rules and ask the lecturer if you are unsure; many allow recordings for personal study. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training.

Does it handle accents, slides and other languages?

99 languages are detected automatically, including a lecture that mixes English terms into another language. Words on slides that nobody reads aloud are not in the audio, so they will not be in the transcript.

Start with the free preview. Finish the lecture only if it is worth it.

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