Upload a recorded lecture and get searchable, timestamped text — skim a two-hour class in minutes instead of replaying it.
Here's what you get — speaker labels, timestamps, and multiple download formats. Try it with your own file.
Recording a lecture is the easy part; the recordings are where good intentions go to die. By exam week there are forty hours of audio nobody is going to replay, and the one definition you need is somewhere in week five. As text, that problem disappears: search the transcript for the term, read the paragraph around it, and follow the timestamp back to the recording only if you need to hear the explanation again.
Lecture audio is genuinely hard — echoing halls, a professor pacing away from your phone, accents, questions shouted from the back rows. The transcription model is built for exactly this kind of real-world recording, not studio podcasts. Questions from the room come back as separate labeled speakers, so the thread of a Q&A survives onto the page.
The economics fit a student budget on purpose. A typical lecture costs about $2 to transcribe, billed per recording with no subscription — transcribe everything in finals season and nothing over the summer. For students working in a second language, or anyone who processes text better than speech, the transcript also turns a once-only live lecture into material you can actually study at your own pace.
Echo, distance from the mic, accents, and audience questions are the normal case here, not the failure case. Q&A voices come back labeled separately.
Export each lecture as TXT and every definition, formula walkthrough, and exam hint becomes findable in seconds across the entire course.
About $2 per lecture, paid per recording. Heavy use at exam time, zero cost the rest of the year — no subscription to remember to cancel.
Strong. The model is tuned for real-world audio — reverberant rooms, distant microphones, accented speech. The clearer the recording, the better, but a phone on a desk mid-hall produces a usable transcript.
Yes, when they are audible in the recording. Different voices are separated and labeled, so the professor’s answer stays attached to the question that prompted it.
Download each lecture’s transcript as TXT and keep them in one folder — any file search then finds a term across the semester instantly. Timestamps in each transcript link back to the moment in the recording.
At $2 per audio hour, a course with twenty-five 90-minute lectures runs roughly $75 — paid lecture by lecture as you go, not as a plan. Transcribe only the courses and weeks you need.
That depends on your university and instructor — many allow personal-use recording, and disability offices often arrange it as an accommodation. Check your institution’s policy first; TranscribeBee transcribes recordings you were permitted to make.
$2 per hour. No subscription. Files are auto-deleted after processing.