We show the transcript here and email you the text, SRT and VTT, so you still have them tomorrow.
Free: 2 recordings a month, up to 1 hour each. Your first needs no account; after that, sign in for the rest. Need more or longer? Hour packs from $1.99, paid once.
2 free a month · then from $1.99
Prices
Pay once · never expires · no subscription
Hour pack
1 hour
$1.99 once
about $1.99 an hour
Hour pack
5 hours
$4.99 once
about $1 an hour
No subscription. Pay once for the hours you need; they never expire.
Students with a .edu or .ac.uk email: 5 hours for $3.99. Sign in with your school email.
More options15 hours, 40 hours, a monthly plan and the API
Hour pack
15 hours
$9.99 once
about 67¢ an hour
Semester packBest value
40 hours
$24.99 once
about 62¢ an hour
20 hours every month · $7.99/mo
For weekly shows and lectures. Cancel anytime.
Transcribing from code? The transcription API has its own hours.
No account needed to buy a pack. Pay with your email, and we send you a link to sign in with your hours waiting.
Every pack: recordings up to 3 hours, no limit on how many, Word and Notion export, notes with timestamps. A 47-minute lecture uses 47 minutes.
What is the best way for a student to transcribe a recording?
Upload a recorded lecture, seminar or interview and get the text in a few minutes: paragraphs with timestamps, each speaker labelled, plus .txt, .srt and .vtt files. Free: two recordings a month, each up to 1 hour, the first with no account. Longer or more: Slice Transcribe hour packs (1 hour for $1.99, 5 hours for $4.99, 15 hours for $9.99 or 40 hours for $24.99), paid once, no subscription, hours that never expire, recordings up to 3 hours, Word and Notion export. Students signed in with a school email (.edu, or .ac.uk and the like) can buy 5 hours for $3.99 instead of $4.99: about three 90-minute lectures. It detects the language (99 in all), works from the sound only, and does not summarise. Check your course’s recording rules and ask the lecturer before you record.
Free, or hour packs
| Feature | Free | Hour packs |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | From $1.99, paid once |
| Student price | Free | 5 hours for $3.99, paid once, signed in with a .edu or .ac.uk email |
| Longest recording | 1 hour | 3 hours |
| How many | 2 recordings a month | As many as your hours cover |
| How hours are counted | Each recording counts as one of the month’s free ones | Each recording’s length, rounded up to the minute: a 47-minute lecture uses 47 minutes |
| Do they run out? | They reset on the 1st of each month | Never: the hours do not expire |
| Account | Not for your first one; then a free account | A free Slice account |
| Downloads | .txt, .srt, .vtt | Word (.docx), Copy for Notion, notes with timestamps, plus .txt, .srt, .vtt |
| Speaker labels | Yes, when more than one person talks | Yes, when more than one person talks |
| How long the text is kept | 30 days | On your account until you delete it |
| Audio kept | 7 days, then deleted | 7 days, then deleted |
Paid once by card through Stripe. No subscription, nothing renews, and the hours never expire. Any pack can be bought as a gift: you get a link to send, and the hours go to whoever redeems it. More on Slice Transcribe.
Which page is for your recording?
Same tool on every page. Each one answers the questions that come with a particular kind of recording:
- Transcribe lectures: Recorded lectures to notes with timestamps.
- Transcribe seminars: Group discussions, with each speaker labelled.
- Transcribe research interviews: Dissertation interviews: consent, anonymising, quoting.
- Lecture recording to notes: The transcript with timestamps, and how to make study notes from it.
- Transcribe Panopto, Echo360, Kaltura or Zoom lectures: Getting the file out of your university’s video platform.
- Lectures in other languages: Which languages, how well, and what goes wrong.
- Lecture transcripts for accessibility: Reading a lecture instead of only hearing it, and the limits of automatic text.
And for recordings that are not lectures:
- Voice memo to text: iPhone Voice Memos and Android recorder files.
- Transcribe a meeting recording: Zoom, Teams and Google Meet recordings.
- WhatsApp voice note to text: A saved voice note, .opus or .ogg.
- Transcribe a focus group: Many voices, each one labelled.
What it costs a student
Most students who pay have one long recording, not a semester of them. So, worked through for a 90-minute lecture:
- Free takes up to 1 hour a recording, two a month. A 90-minute lecture is over that; split it in two and it uses both of the month’s free recordings.
- With hours, it goes in as one file and uses 90 minutes. The smallest pack that covers it is 5 hours for $4.99.
- With a school email, 5 hours cost $3.99: about three lectures that long. Sign in with your school email and the student price is shown in place of the regular one.
Every pack is paid once by card, nothing renews, and the hours never expire, so what you do not use this term is still there next term. All prices are on Slice Transcribe.
What it does and does not do
- Does: what was said, in order, in paragraphs with timestamps; speakers labelled; 99 languages, detected for you; .txt, .srt and .vtt; with hours, Word, Notion, notes with timestamps and corrections on the transcript’s page.
- Does not: summarise, make flashcards, read slides or the board, join a live class, or take links. It is automatic, so check names, terms and numbers before you learn or quote them.
Recording rules
Check your course’s recording rules and ask the lecturer. Many universities allow recording lectures for your own study, some need permission first, and some lecturers say no. For interviews and focus groups, your ethics approval and the participants’ consent come first: see research interviews. Keep recordings and transcripts of other people to yourself unless they agree.
How to transcribe a lecture or interview as a student
- 1Get the recordingYour own, with the lecturer’s permission, or a download from your university’s platform.
- 2Upload it hereFree up to 1 hour. Recorder split it into parts? Add up to 10 at once and they come back as one.
- 3Wait a few minutesThe transcript appears on screen and is emailed to you. You can close the tab.
- 4Study from itCopy the text, or download it. With hours: Word, Notion and timestamped notes.
Questions
Who can buy the student pack?
My university email does not end in .edu or .ac.uk. Can I still get it?
Is it a subscription?
Can it join my online class and transcribe it live?
Can I paste a YouTube or Panopto link?
Is it private?
For students
- Transcribe lectures: Recorded lectures to notes with timestamps.
- Transcribe seminars: Group discussions, with each speaker labelled.
- Transcribe research interviews: Dissertation interviews: consent, anonymising, quoting.
- Lecture recording to notes: The transcript with timestamps, and how to make study notes from it.
- Transcribe Panopto, Echo360, Kaltura or Zoom lectures: Getting the file out of your university’s video platform.
- Lectures in other languages: Which languages, how well, and what goes wrong.
- Lecture transcripts for accessibility: Reading a lecture instead of only hearing it, and the limits of automatic text.
Also for churches: Transcribe sermons — Sunday’s sermon as text, for notes and small groups.
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Also: Voice memo to text · Transcribe a meeting recording · WhatsApp voice note to text · Transcribe a focus group
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