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TALKSCRIBE FOR STUDENTS

From lecture recording to study notes

A semester of lectures is dozens of hours of audio you will never re-listen to. Transcribe them, summarize them, and study from text you can search.

Recording a lecture is easy - using the recording is the hard part. Upload the file (with your instructor's permission where required) and TalkScribe returns a timestamped transcript plus a summary and outline. Exam prep becomes searching text for the concept you need and jumping to the exact minute it was explained.

For research work, the same pipeline handles qualitative interviews: clean transcripts with timestamps for accurate citation, and custom vocabulary that keeps your field's terminology - species names, statutes, methodologies - spelled correctly instead of creatively.

How it works for you

  1. 1
    Upload the lecture
    MP3, WAV, M4A, or MP4 up to 2 hours. A typical 50-minute lecture transcribes in about 2 minutes.
  2. 2
    Generate study material
    Summaries and outlines turn 8,000 spoken words into a one-page review sheet, with timestamps back to the full explanation.
  3. 3
    Search instead of scrub
    Export to Markdown or TXT and search the whole semester for any term the night before the exam.

Built for the way you work

Course vocabulary
Load each course's technical terms once - the transcription biases toward correct spellings of the jargon your field actually uses.
Outlines made for revision
Pro plans distill each lecture into an outline that doubles as a study guide skeleton.
Timestamps for citation
Research interviews come back with [mm:ss] markers, so quoting a participant accurately takes seconds.
Ethics-friendly handling
Recordings are deleted after transcription and never used for AI training - a clean answer for your ethics board and your participants.
EXAMPLE
50-minute lecture recordingSearchable transcript + one-page summary + revision outline

Common questions

How long does a lecture take to transcribe?

Most uploads finish in a fraction of the audio length - a 50-minute lecture is typically ready in about 2 minutes.

Can I use it for research interviews?

Yes. Timestamped transcripts make participant quotes citable, and the privacy architecture - audio deleted after processing, no AI training - is easy to explain in an ethics application.

Is there a student discount?

Not yet, but the Starter plan is $6.99 a month for 300 minutes, and the 30-minute trial is free with no card - enough to transcribe this week's longest lecture and decide.

Try it on your own voice

30 minutes free. No signup, no credit card - the trial runs in your browser.

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