Whipscribe
For academics

Stop re-listening to your own lectures.

Turn every lecture, seminar, interview, or field recording into searchable text — then chat with Claude about any moment. Built for professors, researchers, grad students, and scientists.

Upload a lecture — first hour free See a sample lecture transcript →
Your audio stays private 3-hour lectures welcome 90+ languages No card required

What you get

Your recordings, finally searchable.

Upload once. Skim in minutes instead of re-listening. Jump to any moment, export anywhere, ask AI the questions you'd ask a research assistant.

Skim in minutes.

Every recording becomes a structured transcript with timestamps and chapter markers. Scan a 90-minute lecture in under five.

Ask Claude anything.

"What did I say about gradient descent?" → instant answer with a timestamp you can jump to. Use it like a research assistant who read the whole thing.

Export anywhere.

PDF, Word, Markdown, subtitles. Paste straight into Notion, LaTeX, Obsidian, or your course-materials folder.

Privacy by default.

Your audio is yours. We run open-source Whisper on private infrastructure — never sent to OpenAI or Google. Delete any file with one click.

Use cases

Three kinds of academic work, one workflow.

The job-to-be-done changes, but the mechanics don't: record or upload, skim, ask, cite.

Professors

  • Reuse last semester's lectures as draft course notes.
  • Build a searchable archive of every class you've taught.
  • Answer student questions by pointing at the exact minute.

Researchers

  • Transcribe qualitative interviews with verbatim accuracy.
  • Search a semester's worth of seminar Q&A in one pass.
  • Cite a speaker's exact words and timestamp in your paper.

Grad students

  • Turn dissertation committee meetings into reviewable transcripts.
  • Never miss an advisor's side comment about your chapter.
  • Send your supervisor a single-link summary instead of raw audio.

Typical workflow

Drop a file. Skim. Ask.

No setup, no plugins to install, no command line.

1

Upload or paste a link

.mp3, .m4a, .wav, .mp4 — drag and drop, or paste a Zoom / YouTube URL. No file-size limit for paid tiers.

2

Transcript in minutes

Speaker labels, per-word timestamps, chapter-style structure. A 60-minute lecture lands in roughly a minute.

3

Chat, export, share

Ask Claude about any moment, export to PDF / Word / Markdown, or share a read-only link with a colleague or student.

New · clipping for lectures

From a 60-minute lecture to short clips students will actually watch.

Drop the recording. Get the lecture transcript and a handful of 30–90 second clips back — captioned, cropped to vertical or square, and titled by the strongest line in each segment. Useful for asynchronous courses, conference shares, and short-form dissemination of research talks.

Microlearning highlights

One full lecture, 4–6 short clips that map to the key concepts. Drop them into your LMS or share with students who missed the session.

Multi-speaker panels

Recorded a panel discussion or a Q&A? Split-screen layouts when 2+ speakers are on, single-speaker auto-zoom on the active one when only one is talking.

Captions every word

Word-level burned-in captions matched to your transcript. Edit any line in the transcript view and the caption updates with the clip — important for technical terms.

Every aspect ratio

9:16 for Reels / Shorts, 1:1 for LinkedIn or X, 4:5 for Instagram feed, 16:9 for the course portal. Render once, share everywhere.

See clipping for academic content

First hour free · no credit card Your audio stays private Educational pricing for faculty and .edu

Pricing

Honest pricing. Academic-friendly.

Start free, scale up when your semester needs it. Credits never expire. Write to us with a .edu address for an education discount — we read every email.

Free
Kick the tyres on a single lecture.
$0always

1 hour / month · no credit card

  • Full speaker labels & timestamps
  • Every export format
  • Chat with your transcript
Start free
Department / Lab
Shared seat plan for a research group.
Custom

Volume + educational discount

  • Shared billing across seats
  • Higher monthly cap
  • Purchase-order friendly invoicing
  • White-glove onboarding for labs
Contact us

Educational discounts available for verified faculty and .edu email addresses. Write to contact@neugence.ai — include your role and your institution, we'll reply the same day.

Frequently asked

What academics ask us first.

Does Whipscribe work on 3-hour lectures?

Yes. We chunk long recordings automatically — there's no hard length limit. A 3-hour lecture transcribes in roughly 3–5 minutes on our Pro tier.

Can I upload a YouTube URL of my recorded talk?

Yes. Paste a YouTube, Vimeo, or direct .mp3/.m4a/.mp4 URL and we pull the audio for you — no manual download step.

Is my audio private?

Yes. We run open-source Whisper on private infrastructure — your audio is never sent to OpenAI, Google, or any third-party transcription service. Delete any file at any time.

Can I cite a specific timestamp?

Every line of the transcript is anchored to a word-level timestamp. You can quote the speaker verbatim and link to the exact second in the recording.

Do you support non-English lectures?

Yes. Whisper handles 90+ languages out of the box, from Mandarin and Arabic to Hindi, Spanish, and Swahili. Mixed-language lectures work too — we auto-detect switches.

Your next lecture, already skimmable.

Upload it now — the first hour is on us, no sign-up, no credit card. Pick up right where you left off next semester.

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