Transcription for lecturers every lecture of the term, as text.
A lecturer who records a 3-hour lecture gets the full text back in about 6 minutes, with chapters, the terms and figures mentioned, and caption files. A 14-week course of 2.5-hour lectures is 2,100 minutes, which fits the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes, and the first 20 minutes of your first recording are free.
What a lecturer records
Long teaching sessions, returned as material students can search and you can reuse.
The recordings you already make
Lecture capture in the hall, a Zoom or Teams class saved to the cloud, a phone on the lectern or a clip-on recorder: each produces one long file. Files up to 500 MB go straight into the box on this page; a longer capture continues on the main upload page, still up to 10 hours or 5 GB.
Back as structure, not only words
Each lecture returns with a short brief of the argument and its takeaways, chapters at the points where you changed topic, and the names, dates and numbers you put on the board out loud. Students who missed the session read the brief first and jump to the chapter they need.
Captions and handouts from the same file
SRT and VTT files sit under the lecture video on your course page, DOCX becomes a handout or a starting point for revised notes, and TXT drops into whatever you write next. One upload feeds all of them.
A term, worked out
One 2.5-hour lecture a week for 14 weeks is 35 hours, or 2,100 minutes: the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes covers it with room for a second course. A single month of that course is 600 minutes, which sits inside the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes.
Where lecture recordings end up
The capture system keeps every hour; almost nobody can find anything in it.
✗ Hours of video, no way in
Recorded lectures pile up in the course site, and a student looking for one derivation scrubs through three hours to find it.
- Three-hour videos with no outline
- Auto-captions that garble technical terms
- Questions from students left unanswered by email
- Notes rewritten by hand each year
- Tools that stop at one hour per file
- No way to search last term's lectures
✓ Each lecture as a document
The recording comes back with an outline, a summary and text you can search across the term.
- About 6 minutes for a 3-hour lecture
- Chapters that mirror your topics
- Your examples and definitions findable
- A chat that answers from the lecture itself
- Captions ready for the course page
- Credits that carry into next term
Sample
Part of a recorded lecture, as text.
An illustrative sample written for this page, not taken from a real course. Timestamps count from the start of the recording.
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
Lecturers ask these first.
How long does a recorded lecture take to transcribe?
About 2 minutes per hour of audio, so a 2-hour lecture is ready in about 4 minutes and a 3-hour one in about 6. You can queue the next week's file while the first one runs.
What does a full course cost?
A course of fourteen 2.5-hour lectures is 2,100 minutes, a little over what the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes holds, so the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes is the one to buy; it also leaves room for a second course of the same size. A single 3-hour lecture is 180 minutes from the $6 pack of 500. Packs are one-time and credits never expire, so leftover minutes carry into next term.
My lecture capture files are large. Will they upload?
A 3-hour lecture capture saved as video is often more than 1 GB, depending on resolution. Before the first pack one upload can be up to 2 GB; once a pack is on the account a file can be up to 5 GB or 10 hours. If the video is on YouTube, Vimeo or Google Drive, paste the link and nothing needs uploading.
Can I publish the captions with the lecture video?
Yes: download SRT or VTT and add them in your video platform or course site. Read the captions once for technical terms and names before publishing, as you would with any automatic captions.
I teach in more than one language. Does that work?
WhipScribe detects 99 languages automatically. English terms inside a lecture given in another language are handled, and a lecture that switches language is detected on its main language, so check the passages in the other language.
Do students' questions come out, and is the recording private?
Questions picked up clearly by your microphone are transcribed with the rest. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training. If you share recordings or transcripts with students, follow your institution's policy on recording classes.
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