Turn Any Lecture into Notes, Summaries, and Quizzes

Trying to type notes while actually listening is a losing game — you either capture the words or understand the idea, rarely both. Lecture transcription solves it: record the class, stay present, and read it back later as text you can search, highlight, and quote in essays.

1Transcribe has iOS and Android apps, so your phone is the recorder, plus Mac and Windows apps and a browser version for uploading recordings from any device. Whisper's accuracy — up to 99.9% on clear audio — holds up on the hard parts of real lectures: professors with accents, echoey halls, and dense technical terminology, in 99+ languages with automatic detection.

This is where 1Transcribe goes beyond a plain transcript. Once a lecture is transcribed, you can generate study aids from it with one click:

Lectures do not fit tools built for short clips. 1Transcribe handles a single recording up to 10 hours and 5 GB — a full seminar day, a three-hour lab briefing, or a downloaded course video — and you can batch upload 5 recordings to clear a week of classes at once. Video works too: upload an MP4 or MOV of a recorded Zoom lecture or an online course and the audio track is transcribed automatically. Export to DOCX, PDF, or TXT to merge transcripts into your own notes, or SRT if you want captions over the video.

For students with disabilities — hearing impairments, ADHD, dyslexia, chronic illness, or injuries that make handwriting hard — transcription is more than a convenience. Many universities grant note-taking accommodations that permit recording lectures, and 1Transcribe turns those recordings into complete, accurate text so no student depends on borrowed notes. Recordings are private: files are never used to train AI models and are deleted after 14 days. As always, check your university's recording policy or your accommodations letter before recording.