Online lectures you can actually search afterwards
Notes taken during a lecture are a trade: you write, and while writing you stop listening. Whisperer takes the transcript so you do not have to, and explains the term you did not catch while the lecturer is still talking.
Online classes only · 60 free minutes a month
The answers below are an example. Your own base connects in the app.
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Let's start with Q3 — how did conversion move?
Conversion is up 14% — let me pull up the funnel.
And the cost per lead?
Cost per lead is €12.40 — 9% under plan. Most of the gain came from organic.
Not a video — this is Whisperer itself, and the panel really answers. The microphone starts only when you press it.
The trade
You cannot transcribe and understand at the same time
Handwriting a lecture is a well-documented way to remember it, and also a well-known way to miss the five minutes where the difficult idea was actually explained. The resolution is not to stop taking notes — it is to stop taking dictation.
With the transcript handled, the notes you do write become the ones worth writing: your own reformulation, and the questions you still have.
- During The transcript runs itself Both sides labelled, so a seminar with questions from the room stays readable afterwards.
- During Ask without interrupting The term you did not catch, explained in the window, without raising your hand or losing the next sentence.
- After A map of what was covered Topics and conclusions separated out, and the whole term becomes searchable when revision starts.
Also
Lectures in a language you are still learning
A course taught in a second language is where this earns its keep fastest: the original transcript stays visible while a translation line runs under it, so you are following the argument and building the vocabulary at the same time rather than choosing between them.
Limits
Read this before you rely on it for a course
The first limit rules out a large share of teaching outright, so it is worth being direct about it rather than burying it.
Whisperer hears the other side through system audio, which exists when the lecture is playing on your computer. Sitting in a physical hall, your laptop microphone hears the room and nothing is labelled. This is the wrong tool for in-person teaching.
A finished recording can be uploaded: the Meetings section takes one file up to 25 MB — mp3, m4a, wav, ogg, flac, aac, plus mp4 and webm, from which the audio track is used. What is missing is bulk upload of a whole archive; and it spends the same minutes a live call does.
Questions
What students ask first
Does 60 free minutes cover a lecture?
One short one a month. A full timetable needs a paid plan, where minutes are not limited — Start is a seven-day plan, which suits an exam period.
Is this allowed on my course?
Recording a class is usually governed by your institution's rules rather than by software. Nothing joins the call and nothing is announced, which makes asking your lecturer the sensible route rather than assuming.
Can I use it in an exam?
No, and please do not. Assessment rules are stated for a reason, proctoring tools typically watch the process list rather than the screen, and the consequences are not proportionate to the help.
Can I upload a finished recording?
Yes. In the Meetings section you pick the file with a button or drag it in — one at a time, up to 25 MB: mp3, m4a, wav, ogg, flac, aac, plus mp4 and webm, from which the audio is taken. From there it goes exactly like a live call: transcript, meeting map, decisions and tasks. A whole archive cannot be uploaded in one go, and in no-logs mode upload is unavailable — nothing is stored there by design.
Can it summarise a whole course?
Each session gets a map, and search runs across all of them. There is no single button that turns a term into one document, and anything claiming to do that well is overselling.
Try it on the lecture you always lose
The one where you are still writing down the previous idea when the next one starts. Compare what you get with the notes you would have made.