How do you turn a long lecture into study notes? Start from a transcript and a brief.
Upload the lecture recording whole and you get the notes skeleton back in about 5 minutes for a 2.5-hour class: a brief of the main argument and takeaways, chapters per topic with timestamps, the names, numbers, dates and terms the lecturer used, and a full transcript to check against. One file can run up to 10 hours or 5 GB; the first 20 minutes are free and the $6 pack of 500 minutes covers three 2.5-hour lectures with 50 minutes to spare.
From recording to revision
A study routine that uses the output.
Read the brief first
The brief gives the lecture's thesis and takeaways in a few paragraphs. Read it before anything else and you know what the 150 minutes were for, which makes the rest of the notes easier to place.
Use the chapters as headings
Chapters split the lecture by topic, each with its start time. Copy them as the headings of your notes, then fill each one in your own words from the transcript. Writing it yourself is where most of the learning happens; the chapters just save you the hunting.
Turn the questions into flashcards
Every recording comes back with the questions it answers and the names, numbers, dates and terms that were said. Those two lists are ready-made flashcard fronts and backs. Ask the chat about any part that still feels unclear, for example the step the lecturer rushed through before the break.
Get the recording in
A phone or laptop recording of the class, the lecture-capture video or a Drive link all work. Large video goes through the upload page; files up to 2 GB upload before a pack. Download the transcript as DOCX for your notes or TXT for a notes app.
Note-taking under pressure
Why notes from a long lecture fall apart.
✗ Writing while listening
After the first hour, handwritten notes thin out just when the hard material arrives.
- Half of the second hour missing
- Formulas copied wrong from the board
- No idea where a topic started
- Rewatching all of it before the exam
- Notes that follow the slides, not the talk
- Questions from class forgotten by evening
✓ Listening, then writing
Pay attention in the room and build the notes from the full text afterwards.
- Every minute of the class in text
- Chapters to use as headings
- Terms and numbers listed
- Questions ready for flashcards
- A chat to clear up a confusing part
- About five minutes after upload
Sample output
Midway through a 2.5-hour economics lecture.
Illustrative lines, not a real course. The chapters would split this class into its topics, each with a start time.
Export
One transcript. Five clean formats.
Every pack exports all five — no format is held back for a higher tier.
Plain text
De-ummed paragraphs. Ready to paste.
SRT captions
Timed to the speech. Every video editor reads this.
WebVTT
HTML5 player + YouTube uploads.
Show notes
Formatted with chapters and pull-quotes.
Machine-readable
Timestamped text for your own tools.
Pricing
Honest pricing, no surprises.
A pack from $6 (500 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
$6/500 min
8 hours of audio — $0.72 an hour. One-time — credits never expire.
- 500 minutes of audio
- All export formats
- AI chat over the whole transcript
- Executive summary & key quote
Best value
$12/2,000 min
33 hours of audio — $0.36 an hour. Credits never expire.
- 2,000 minutes of audio
- Summary, chapters and key quotes
- All export formats
- AI chat over the whole transcript
Bulk pack
$24/5,000 min
83 hours of audio — $0.29 an hour. Credits never expire.
- 5,000 minutes of audio
- Summary, chapters and key quotes
- API access for batch pipelines
- All export formats
FAQ
Lecture notes, answered.
Can a recording become study notes without me typing anything?
The structure arrives without typing: brief, chapters, terms, questions and transcript. Most students still write the final notes in their own words from that material, because rewriting is part of learning it. The output takes away the searching and the gaps, not the thinking.
How long does a 2.5-hour lecture take?
About 5 minutes after the upload, since processing runs near 2 minutes per hour of audio. A phone audio recording of a class uploads quickly; a lecture-capture video is larger and may take longer to send than to transcribe.
What does a whole course cost?
Thirteen weeks of one 2.5-hour lecture is 13 times 150, or 1,950 minutes, which fits the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes with 50 left. Three lectures fit the $6 pack of 500 minutes. A heavier term with two classes a week goes past 2,000 minutes and onto the $24 pack of 5,000. Credits never expire.
May I record the lecture?
That depends on your institution and lecturer, so ask first or use the official lecture-capture recording. The transcript is only as complete as the recording, so sit near the front or use the room's recording when one exists.
Does it handle technical terms and other languages?
Specialist terms and names come out well when spoken clearly; check the ones that matter against the recording using the timestamps. 99 languages are detected automatically, and English terms inside a lecture in another language are handled.
Which formats can I download, and who sees the recording?
TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON. DOCX opens in Word or Google Docs for editing into notes. Lecture recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training.
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