LesskeysTranscribe lectures on your Mac or PC, offline and private
Turn a lecture recording into searchable text and dictate notes and essay drafts, on your own computer. Ask before you record a lecture: some teachers and schools do not allow it.
macOS 13+ on Apple Silicon · No subscriptionWindows 10 and 11 · No subscription
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Three jobs
What a student does with it
Transcribe a lecture recording.
From a phone, a recorder or an online class. A seminar gets a label for each speaker.
99 languagesFind the moment a term came up.
Search the text, play from that line and copy it into your notes.
Dictate notes or an essay draft.
Add a replacement for a course term that keeps coming out wrong.
Works with MP3, M4A, WAV, AIFF, MP4, MOV and M4V files. Convert other formats first.
Ask first
May I record a lecture?
Ask first: teachers and schools have their own rules.
Some places require everyone's consent, so tell the people you record.
Your laptop
The recording stays on your laptop
Turned into text on your computer, not uploaded.
Once the speech model is on your computer it needs no internet connection, so it works in a library with no wifi.
- Nothinguploaded
- Offlineworks with the internet off
- No accountneeded
Transcript, not notes
A transcript is not your notes
A transcript is everything that was said. Notes are what you decide matters.
A noisy recording gives a worse transcript, and names, terms and formulas can come out wrong: check them against the audio. Lesskeys does not summarise a lecture.
On a Mac
A student on a Mac
- macOS 13 or later, Apple Silicon
- No bot joins the call
Tell the people you record; some places require everyone's consent.
On Windows
A student on Windows
- Windows 10 and 11
- Record Call needs only your microphone
- No bot joins the call
Tell the people you record; some places require everyone's consent.
Questions
Questions about Lesskeys for students
Can students transcribe lectures offline?
Yes. Lesskeys transcribes a lecture recording on your computer, with no upload, and it needs no internet connection once the speech model is on your computer.
Can I transcribe a lecture I already recorded?
Yes. Add the audio or video file and Lesskeys transcribes it on your computer, with speaker labels for seminars with several people.
Can I dictate an essay with it?
Yes. Click into your document, dictate and paste the text. Lesskeys writes down what you say, so you edit it afterwards; it does not write the essay.
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