Lecture transcriptionTurn recorded lectures into notes you can study

A recorded lecture is a strange study tool: everything you need is in there, and finding any of it means scrubbing through two hours of audio at 1.5×. Lecture transcription turns the recording into something you can search, skim, and annotate – and Hushscript adds structured study notes on top, from the same first free Insights run. You pay per recorded minute, which is how student budgets actually work.

Lecture transcription in three steps

Upload the recording: a phone capture, an audio file, or a recorded video lecture, from which only the audio track is prepared in the browser – a 2 GB screencast doesn’t need to upload. Preview the first 5 minutes on your lecturer’s actual voice, then sign up for the full transcript. Your first 30 minutes are free: add a card for a $1 check (released right away, never charged), or pay another way and they arrive with your first purchase.

Search the lecture instead of rewinding it

The definition the professor gave in passing, the assignment mentioned at the end, the aside that turns out to be on the exam: in audio they’re needles in a two-hour haystack. In a transcript they’re a search away, each paragraph timecoded so you can still return to the original moment. Tag lectures by course, filter them, and keep a term’s worth of material in one searchable place.

From transcript to study notes

Rereading a raw transcript is barely faster than relistening. Your first Insights run is free and structures the lecture for revision: executive and detailed summaries, timestamped chapters that outline the hour, open questions worth taking to office hours, and subject clusters that group scattered mentions into topics. A fully cleaned transcript arrives in the same run – the Original stays preserved in its own tab. Export any of it as Markdown, DOCX, or PDF and it drops straight into your notes app.

Studying in your second language

Following a fast lecture in a language you’re still mastering is double work. Recognition covers roughly 99 languages with automatic detection, and a translation target (+25% of the duration) gives you the lecture in the original and your own language, side by side in tabs. Quote the original in your work; understand it in your language first.

For educators

The same workflow runs in the other direction: transcribe your own recorded course, export SRT or VTT captions for accessibility, and hand out a cleaned transcript instead of asking students to re-watch. A term of your own lectures becomes searchable source material for the next revision of the course.

Priced for a student, not a department

Transcription is billed in minutes, with five prepaid packs from $1.99. On the largest ($49.99 for 100 h), a 90-minute lecture is about $0.75, and a two-lectures-a-week term lands around $18 – spread across the term, since you buy minutes when you need them. There’s no subscription to forget to cancel in June, and unused minutes stay valid for a year, any activity resetting the clock.