Transcription for teachers every recorded lesson and PD day, as text.
A teacher's recorded lesson or professional development day comes back as text at about 2 minutes per audio hour, so a 6-hour in-service day is ready in roughly 12 minutes. A month of five 45-minute lessons a week is 900 minutes, which fits the $18 pack of 3,000 minutes, and the opening minutes on a first visit are free.
What a teacher records
Lessons for the student who was absent, and the PD day nobody took notes on.
Lessons on a phone or laptop
A phone on the desk, a laptop running a screen recorder, or a classroom camera all produce an ordinary audio or video file. Files up to 500 MB go in the box on this page; a bigger one continues on the upload page, still up to 10 hours or 5 GB.
Recordings already online
If the lesson or a district webinar already sits on YouTube, Vimeo or a Google Drive share link, paste the link instead of downloading it. A video recorded inside a school platform can be downloaded and then uploaded, if the platform offers a download.
What comes back
A brief with the main thesis and takeaways, chapters with timestamps for each part of the lesson, the names, dates and numbers said aloud, the questions the recording answers, and a chat where you can ask what was set as homework.
From transcript to handout
Copy the chapter list into the class notes, export DOCX to edit a study sheet, or add SRT captions to the lesson video so students who read faster than they listen can follow along.
Before and after
A recorded class is only useful if someone can find the ten minutes they missed.
✗ A folder of class videos
Recordings pile up faster than anyone rewatches them.
- Students scrubbing a 50-minute video for one example
- PD day notes written from memory a week later
- Absent students sent the whole recording
- No captions on the lesson video
- Department decisions living in someone's head
- Homework instructions said once and lost
✓ Lessons you can search
Upload the recording and send students to the right minute.
- Chapters that point to each part of the lesson
- A 6-hour PD day as a brief with takeaways
- Due dates and page numbers pulled out
- SRT or VTT captions ready for the video
- Speakers named in the summary and chapters
- 900 minutes a month on the $18 pack
Sample
Part of a recorded science lesson.
Illustrative sample written for this page; it is not a real class.
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 $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
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
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
FAQ
Questions teachers ask.
How long does a recorded lesson take to transcribe?
About 2 minutes per hour of audio. A 45-minute lesson is ready in under 2 minutes after the upload finishes, and a 6-hour PD day in about 12.
What does a month of recorded lessons cost?
Packs start at $4 for 300 minutes. A single PD day of 6 hours is 360 minutes on the $18 pack of 3,000 minutes. Packs are one-time and credits never expire, so a quiet month costs nothing.
Do I need permission to record my class?
Recording students needs the consent your school's policy and the law where you teach require, so check both before you press record. Many teachers point the microphone at themselves and the board rather than at the students.
Can I transcribe a lesson that is over 2 GB?
Before the first pack, uploads go up to 5 GB; a larger file can be split or have its audio exported. Long classroom videos shrink a lot as audio only, and any file stays within 10 hours or 5 GB.
Will it handle a lesson taught in two languages?
99 languages are detected automatically. A language class that switches between two languages is detected on its main language, so check the passages in the second one.
Which files can I download, and who hears the recording?
TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training, and you can delete a lesson and its text whenever you like.
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