Transcribe a recording made in a university auditorium from the lectern to the back row.
A recording from a university auditorium, whether a 90-minute lecture, a 2-hour debate or a 3-hour convocation, comes back as text at about 2 minutes per audio hour, so the lecture takes about 3 minutes. The first 20 minutes are free, and a $6 pack of 500 minutes covers more than five lectures of that length.
What a raked hall does to a recording
Auditoriums are tuned for one voice at the front. Everyone else is harder to hear.
The lectern microphone carries it
Lecture capture and the hall's own system record the lecturer through a lapel or lectern microphone, which is usually clean. A question from row 30 often reaches the recording faintly, so expect the lecture itself to be the strongest part of the text.
Slides you cannot see
A recording loses whatever was on the screen. The brief recovers the argument in words: the thesis, the takeaways, the questions the lecture answers, and chapters that start where the lecturer moved to a new section.
One lecture or the whole course
A 90-minute lecture uses 90 of the 500 minutes in a $6 pack. Thirteen weeks of one 90-minute lecture comes to 1,170 minutes, which the $12 pack of 2,000 covers with time left for revision sessions.
Debates with two sides and a chair
In a debate, the summary and key quotes name each speaker and keep their strongest lines with timestamps. The chat over the transcript answers questions such as what the opposition said about funding, and points to the moment it was said.
Why lecture recordings go unused
Nobody rewatches a 90-minute lecture to find one definition.
✗ The recording sits on the course page
Students have the video, but they scrub through it the night before an exam looking for the part they half remember.
- Auto captions that mangle technical terms
- No way to search across a semester
- Questions from the floor lost entirely
- Free tiers that stop before the lecture ends
- Copying lines out of the video player by hand
- A subscription for one term of work
✓ Text you can search and quote
Each lecture comes back as a document with chapters, so finding a definition takes a search rather than an evening.
- About 3 minutes for 90 minutes
- The first 20 minutes free
- Chapters with timestamps
- The names, figures and dates said, listed
- A chat that answers questions about the lecture
- SRT and VTT for accessible captions
Sample
A lecture in an auditorium, with a question from the floor.
This sample is illustrative and was written for this page, not taken from any 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
- 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
Auditorium recordings, answered.
How long does an auditorium lecture take to transcribe?
About 2 minutes per hour of audio, so a 90-minute lecture takes about 3 minutes and a 3-hour convocation around 6.
What would a whole semester of auditorium lectures cost?
Count it in minutes. Thirteen 90-minute lectures make 1,170, inside the $12 pack of 2,000. A single lecture is covered by the first 20 minutes free and a $6 pack of 500 minutes for the rest.
Will questions from the audience come through?
With a roaming microphone, usually yes. Without one, the voice may be too faint to transcribe well. A lecturer who repeats the question before answering solves it, because the repeat comes back clearly.
The lecture is on a video platform. Do I upload it?
A YouTube or Vimeo link can simply be pasted. Recordings on other lecture platforms are downloaded first and then uploaded; a file can run to 10 hours or 5 GB, and before the first pack the upload limit is 2 GB.
Can it handle a lecture in another language?
Yes. 99 languages are detected automatically, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese and Korean among them, and the language is read from the recording. English terms inside a lecture in another language come back as spoken.
What formats do I get, and is the lecture used for training?
Every run gives TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training.
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