Transcribe Open edX course videos a single unit or the full course.
An Open edX course video transcribes when you download it (where the course team allows downloads) or paste its YouTube link, at about 2 minutes per hour of audio, and a 12-minute unit falls inside the first 20 minutes free. A whole 8-week course of 48 such videos is 576 minutes, which fits the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes and processes in about 19 minutes.
Course videos on an Open edX site
Open edX courses are built from many short videos. Read together, they become the course notes.
Getting a course video
Open edX is software institutions run themselves, so what you see depends on the site. Where the course team has allowed video downloads, a download link usually appears beneath the player; the file is often an MP4. Many courses host their videos on YouTube, and that YouTube link can be pasted directly. WhipScribe is not an Open edX plugin or XBlock; it works on the file or link you provide.
Learners and course teams
Learners transcribe the videos the course lets them download, to study from text. Course teams transcribe their own source files to produce SRT or VTT captions and a readable transcript for every unit, which also helps learners on slow connections.
A course, counted
Eight weeks of six 12-minute videos give 48 videos and 576 minutes. That is past the 500 minutes in the $6 pack, so the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes fits, with 1,424 minutes left over. A course team with a 40-hour library, 2,400 minutes, buys the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes.
What each unit returns
Every video comes back with a brief of the unit, chapters with timestamps, the terms, figures and dates the instructor says, and the questions the unit answers. Ask the chat over a transcript where a formula was derived. Instructors are named in the summary, key quotes and chapters.
A course as a playlist
Forty-eight short videos are easy to watch once and hard to revise from.
✗ Videos only
Revision means replaying units.
- Hunting across units for one explanation
- Notes that differ from what was said
- Captions missing on older units
- Slow pages for learners on weak connections
- No single text for the whole course
- Copying formulas by pausing the video
✓ A course in text
Every unit readable and searchable.
- YouTube-hosted units pasted as links
- 576 minutes of units on the $12 pack
- A brief per unit for revision
- SRT and VTT captions for every video
- Terms and figures listed per unit
- DOCX notes for offline study
Sample
A unit video from an online course.
These lines are illustrative and were written for this page; they come from no real Open edX course. Timestamps follow a 12-minute unit.
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
Open edX videos, answered.
Can I paste an Open edX course link?
Not the course page, which needs a sign-in. Paste the YouTube link when the video is hosted on YouTube, or download the file where the course allows it and upload it.
There is no download button. What now?
Then the course team has not enabled downloads for that video. Ask the course team for a file, or use the YouTube link if the video is hosted there.
How long does a course take to transcribe?
About 2 minutes per audio hour. A 12-minute unit is done in seconds; 576 minutes of units take about 19 minutes.
What does it cost?
First-time visitors get the first 20 minutes free, so a 12-minute unit transcribes in full; a longer video is previewed until a pack from $6 finishes it. A 576-minute course sits on the $12 pack and a 2,400-minute library on the $24 pack. Packs are paid once and never expire.
Is there a size or length limit?
One course video may run up to 10 hours or weigh up to 5 GB. Before the first pack, uploads go up to 2 GB, and a heavier file starts once a pack is on the account.
Exports and privacy?
Units export as TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT or JSON, so captions and notes come from the same run. Course videos are transcribed on our own servers and never used for training.
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