Transcription for university students revise from text, not from replays.
A university student who records a 75-minute lecture gets it back as searchable text in about 2.5 minutes, with chapters and a short summary, and the first 20 minutes are free. A month of three courses with two lectures a week is 1,800 minutes, which fits the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes.
From the lecture hall to your notes
Lectures and seminars you recorded, turned into something you will actually reread.
What students record
A voice memo app on a phone during a lecture, the recording your department posts after class, a two-hour seminar, an online class saved from Zoom or Teams. Phone audio files are small and go straight into the box on this page, which takes files up to 500 MB; a longer lecture video continues on the main upload page.
Notes with a shape
Every recording returns with a summary of the argument, chapters with timestamps where the lecturer moved on, and the names, dates, formulas read aloud and figures mentioned. The chapters already work as headings for a revision document.
Ask the lecture
The chat answers from the transcript: which examples were given for a concept, what the lecturer said would be on the exam, when a deadline falls. Each answer points to the moment in the recording, so you can listen to the passage again.
What a term costs
Six 75-minute lectures before a midterm are 450 minutes, inside the $6 pack of 500 minutes. Recording every class in your two hardest courses, three hours a week each for 13 weeks, is 4,680 minutes, which is the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes.
How a term of recordings usually goes
You record every class, then never have three spare hours to listen again.
✗ A phone full of audio
The recordings exist, but finding one explanation means replaying an entire class, so most files are never opened twice.
- Ninety-minute files named by date
- Notes that stop when the pace picks up
- Borrowed notes with gaps in the hard parts
- Slides with none of the spoken explanation
- Typing a lecture out yourself
- Cramming from memory before the exam
✓ Every class you can search
Upload once per lecture and read, search and question it, alone or with a study group.
- About 2.5 minutes per 75-minute class
- A summary to read before the next lecture
- Chapters as revision headings
- Lecturer named in the summary and quotes
- Search for a term across the course
- DOCX to share with your study group
Sample
A recorded seminar, as it comes back.
Illustrative only: these lines were written for this page and do not come from a real class or student.
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
Students ask these first.
How quickly is a recorded lecture ready?
About 2 minutes per hour of audio: a 50-minute class takes under 2 minutes, a 2-hour seminar about 4. You can upload the next one while the first runs.
What does the free part cover?
A first-time visitor gets the first 20 minutes free. A recording of up to 20 minutes is transcribed in full; a longer lecture is previewed, and a pack from $6 transcribes the rest from where the preview ended.
Which pack do I need for a term?
It depends on how much you record. Six lectures before an exam fit the $6 pack of 500 minutes. A month of three courses is 1,800 minutes, inside the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes. A whole term of two courses at three hours a week is 4,680 minutes, which is the $24 pack. Packs are one-time and credits never expire.
Am I allowed to record my lectures?
That is a question for your university and your lecturer, not for us. Many institutions have a policy on recording classes and on sharing recordings, so ask before you record and keep the recording and the transcript for your own study unless you are told otherwise.
The lecture video from my department is huge. Will it work?
Before your first pack one upload can be up to 2 GB; after a pack, up to 5 GB or 10 hours per file. If the video is on YouTube or a shared Google Drive link, paste the link instead of downloading it.
My lectures are in another language, or mix English in. Is that a problem?
No. WhipScribe detects 99 languages automatically, and English terms inside a lecture in another language are handled. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training.
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