Sound familiar?
You know the feeling.
Lectures are hard. Life is harder. Typist takes one thing off your plate.
Zoned out again.
You missed the entire derivation. The prof moved on. You're now staring at a slide that makes zero sense.
Skipped class.
Flu, hangover, 8 a.m. — it happens. And nobody in the group chat shares real notes anymore.
Rewatching for hours.
Spending 3 hours turning a 1-hour lecture into half-decent notes. Then doing it again tomorrow.
The accent wall.
Brilliant professor, heavy accent. You understand 60% of what's said and too shy to keep asking.
We built Typist for exactly this. Record or upload — we do the rest.
Two ways to get started
Record it. Or upload it.
Whichever fits your class, your schedule, and your vibe.
Record live in class.
Open Typist on your phone or laptop, hit the big red button, and drop it in your bag. Typist captures every word your professor says while you actually pay attention — or zone out. Your call.
Upload the recording.
Zoom exports, Panopto downloads, m4a from your AirPods, mp4 from your laptop — drop any file and Typist handles it. Long seminars welcome. 99+ languages out of the box.
How it works
From lecture to notes in three steps.
Less fiddling. Less transcribing. More learning.
Capture the lecture
Record live from your browser, or upload an m4a / mp4 / Zoom export. Up to 5 GB per file on Premium.
Typist transcribes
We process audio up to 200x real-time. A 1-hour lecture is ready in ~30 seconds. 99+ languages, technical terms, accents included.
Study smarter
Searchable, timestamped transcript. Export to DOCX, PDF, TXT, SRT. Paste straight into Notion, Obsidian, Goodnotes — wherever your notes live.
See it for yourself
Real lectures. Real transcripts.
Press play on a sample lecture below — hover to reveal timestamps.
Alright — today we are finishing up cell division. Specifically, the five phases of mitosis. Prophase, prometaphase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase — I promise you will see every single one of these on the midterm, so please take this seriously. The easy way to remember the order is PMAT — or if that fails you, remember that the cell literally lines up, splits, and leaves. And the key thing on the exam is not naming the phases — it is knowing which phase this image is showing. Always ask yourself: where are the chromosomes?
Why Typist
Built for the grind, not the bloat.
Fast, accurate, multi-lingual, exportable. The four things a transcription tool actually needs to do.
Ready before you leave class. A 1-hour lecture is transcribed in ~30 seconds. 200x faster than real-time.
Every accent, every language. 99+ languages. Tuned for technical jargon and heavy accents.
Any lecture file you have. Zoom, Panopto, AirPods voice memos, laptop recordings — up to 5 GB.
Drag and drop audio/video file
MP3, WAV, MP4, MOV, M4A and more...
Plays nice with your notes app. TXT, DOCX, PDF, SRT — paste into Notion, Obsidian, Goodnotes, Google Docs.
Students are obsessed
From C+ to A-. From 3 hours to 3 minutes.
Undergrads, grad students, PhDs — from Berkeley to Tokyo.
"I record every single lecture now. I actually understand organic chem for the first time in my life. Game over for traditional note-taking."
"Zoom recording → Typist → Notion in literally 2 minutes. My study group pays me in coffee for the transcripts now. Best side hustle I've accidentally started."
"Handles my advisor's Osaka accent perfectly. I was genuinely shocked. Typist nails technical terms that Otter completely mangles."
"ADHD brain says thank you. I can finally just listen and actually learn, instead of trying to type and missing everything the prof says."
"Went from a C+ to an A- in Econometrics last semester. Not exaggerating. Rewatching lectures with a searchable transcript is cheat-code-level studying."
"I skipped a week for my grandmother's funeral and didn't fall behind once. Someone just shared the recordings and Typist did the rest. I cried a little."
How we compare
Typist vs the rest.
Including the option where you just write it all down yourself.
| Tool | Speed | Max upload | Languages | Free tier | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Typist | 1hr in ~30s | 5 GB | 99+ | 3 lectures free | $20/mo unlimited |
Otter.ai | Real-time | ~3 GB | 3 | 300 min/mo | $16.99/mo (Pro) |
Notta | 1hr in ~5 min | 2 GB | 104 | 120 min/mo | $13.99/mo |
Rev | 1hr in ~5 min (AI) | 2 GB | 17 | None | $0.25–$1.50/min |
TurboScribe | 1hr in ~3 min | 5 GB | 98+ | 3/day (30min) | $10/mo |
Manual notes | 2–3x real-time | your hand | whatever you speak | your GPA | your sanity |
Pricing
Less than one textbook.
Start free — upgrade only when you need to. Cancel or pause over summer break.
Try Typist with 3 free lectures. No card required.
3 free lectures
Test Typist before you commit
Files up to 100 MB
Enough for most 1-hour lectures
Turbo transcription model
Fast, accurate, free
TXT + DOCX exports
Paste straight into your notes
7-day file retention
Files auto-delete after a week
Unlimited lectures. 5 GB files. Every export format.
Unlimited lectures
No weekly or monthly caps
Up to 5 GB per file
Multi-hour seminars & full-day workshops
Priority processing
Skip the line, every time
All models + all languages
World's fastest & most accurate
PDF, DOCX, TXT, SRT exports
Drop into Notion, Obsidian, Goodnotes
Keep your files forever
Build a searchable lecture library
Questions
The stuff students actually ask.
Stop taking notes. Start actually learning.
Upload your next lecture — or hit record before your next class. Typist does the rest. Free to start, no card, no catch.
No credit card · 3 free lectures · Ready in 30 seconds