Transcribe recorded lectures, webinars, and course videos into text students can search — with accessibility-ready captions, 100+ languages, and speaker labels. Private Whisper, per-hour pricing.
Built for teaching & learning
A 90-minute lecture becomes ~13,000 words of searchable text. Students grep a term, a name, a formula, and jump to the exact second it was covered in the recording.
SRT and VTT caption files plus a full transcript to post beside each video — the building blocks of WCAG-, ADA-, and Section 508-aligned course content. You get the files; your accessibility office confirms policy fit.
Transcribe in the source language for native-speaker courses, or export an English translation track so international students can follow a recorded lecture. Timing is preserved.
Diarization tags each speaker. Rename to Lecturer, Student, TA and the whole seminar or Q&A transcript updates — search everything one speaker said across the session.
Export to plain text, DOCX, SRT, or VTT. Drop a transcript into a study guide, a reading, or your LMS; caption files attach straight to the video.
Open-source Whisper on private infrastructure — no third-party transcription service in the path, no training on your uploads. Delete anytime. Need a DPA? Email contact@neugence.ai.
Side-by-side
Manual notes and LMS auto-captions have their place. Here's where a real transcript wins.
| Consideration | Whipscribe | Manual / LMS auto-captions |
|---|---|---|
| Time to a full transcript | ~1–2 min for a 90-min lecture | Hours to type by hand; auto-captions rarely export cleanly |
| Downloadable caption file | SRT · VTT · JSON, yours to keep | LMS auto-captions are often view-only or platform-locked |
| Editable before publishing | Full editor — fix terms, split lines, rename speakers | Hand-correcting auto-captions is slow and per-platform |
| Speaker labels | Diarized turns; rename to Lecturer / Student / TA | Not available in most auto-caption tools |
| Languages + translation | 100+ languages; export an English translation track | Uneven; not downloadable everywhere |
| Privacy | Private Whisper; no training on uploads; delete anytime | Subject to each platform's data terms |
Doing qualitative research instead of teaching? See Whipscribe for academic research. Need caption files specifically? See captioning.
Questions instructors ask first
Yes. Upload a recording or paste a video URL — you get a timestamped, searchable transcript plus SRT/VTT captions. A 90-minute lecture transcribes in a minute or two.
Captions and transcripts are core to accessible course content and support WCAG/ADA/Section 508 goals. We generate the files; your accessibility office confirms policy fit.
Yes. 100+ languages plus an English translation track. Students jump to the exact moment a concept was explained.
Yes. Private Whisper, no third-party service in the path, no training on uploads. Delete anytime. DPA available — email contact@neugence.ai.
Yes. Diarization labels each speaker; rename to Lecturer, Student, TA and the transcript updates.
Per hour of audio, PAYG — about 0.6¢/min (Pro pack). No per-seat fee; a department shares one account. A semester of weekly 1-hour lectures is roughly $30.
Go deeper
Start free. About 0.6¢/min (Pro pack) pay-as-you-go after your free minutes — a full 90-minute lecture runs ~$3.
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