Transcribe an Explain Everything lesson every word said at the whiteboard.
To transcribe a whiteboard lesson recorded in Explain Everything, export the project as a video, usually an MP4, and upload it here; a two-hour lesson is transcribed in about 4 minutes. The first 20 minutes are free, and 120 minutes of lesson takes part of the $6 pack of 500 minutes. WhipScribe has no Explain Everything integration; it transcribes the exported video.
From whiteboard to text
The drawing explains the idea. The narration is what students search later.
Export the lesson as a video
An Explain Everything project keeps strokes, slides and audio together in its own format, which a transcription service cannot read. Export the recording as a video instead; MP4 is the usual choice, and the export settings let you decide where it saves. If you put the video in Google Drive, its share link can be pasted directly.
Speech, not handwriting
The transcript holds what was said, not what was drawn. Lessons where the teacher reads each step aloud while writing come back far richer than silent sketching, so narrating the equation as you write pays off twice. Formula names, page numbers and the homework you set aloud all land in the list of names, numbers and dates.
What a unit of lessons costs
Twenty whiteboard lessons of 90 minutes each total 1,800 minutes, inside the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes with 200 to spare. A single two-hour lesson uses 120 of the 500 minutes in the $6 pack. Because credits do not lapse, one pack can stretch across the school year.
One upload per lesson
Drop the exported file on upload page. The whole lesson returns as one transcript with timestamps that match the video, so a student can jump from a line of text straight to the moment it was drawn. A student who missed the lesson can read it in minutes instead of watching every stroke.
Where whiteboard lessons stall
The lesson replays stroke by stroke. Revising from it takes the full two hours again.
✗ Replaying the board
Students scrub the video to find one worked example.
- Rewinding to hear how a step was justified
- Notes copied from the board without the reasoning
- A 25 MB limit on the Whisper API, under a single lesson video
- Splitting the export so short tools accept it
- Timestamps that differ from the video
- Homework dates announced aloud, then forgotten
✓ Reading the lesson
The spoken reasoning, written out beside the timestamps.
- One file per lesson, start to finish
- Chapters at each new problem
- Names, numbers and dates spoken during the lesson
- The questions the lesson answers
- A chat that finds where a method was explained
- SRT or VTT captions for the lesson video
Sample
A recorded whiteboard lesson on fractions and ratios.
An illustrative sample written for this page, not from a real class. Timestamps sit inside a two-hour lesson.
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
- Unlimited AI chat per 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
- Priority queue
- All export formats
- Unlimited AI chat per transcript
Bulk pack
$24/5,000 min
83 hours of audio — $0.29 an hour. Credits never expire.
- 5,000 minutes of audio
- Priority queue
- API access for batch pipelines
- All export formats
FAQ
Explain Everything lessons, answered.
How long does a two-hour whiteboard lesson take?
Around 4 minutes, with transcription running at roughly 2 minutes per hour of audio. A one-hour lesson is ready in about 2.
Can I upload the Explain Everything project file?
No. The project format holds drawings and audio for the app itself. Export a video, then upload it. A lesson you already posted to YouTube can be pasted as a link instead.
What does a unit of lessons cost?
Twenty 90-minute lessons, 1,800 minutes, fit the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes. One two-hour lesson fits the $6 pack of 500 minutes. On a first visit the first 20 minutes are free, and a pack transcribes the rest from the point where the preview stopped.
Does it read the handwriting on the board?
No. WhipScribe transcribes speech. Equations written but never spoken will not appear, so narrating each step is the way to get them into the text.
Is there an integration with Explain Everything?
No plugin, connection or classroom bot exists. WhipScribe works on the video you export, or on a YouTube or Drive link to it.
Which exports and languages are available, and is the lesson private?
Exports are TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON, and lessons in 99 languages are recognised without a setting. The teacher, and anyone else who speaks, is named in the summary, key quotes and chapters. Lessons are transcribed on our own servers and never used for training.
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