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You upload a class recording. SparkScribe transcribes it on your device, with speakers and timestamps, then helps you study it: a summary, organized notes, flashcards, practice quizzes and a study guide, and answers to your questions that point to the moment something was said.

Audio or video files, for example M4A, MP3, MP4, WAV, WebM or MOV, including recordings that are hours long. Transcription is English-only for now: other languages may be transcribed poorly or not at all.

It depends on your device. On a computer whose browser can use the graphics card, it's usually faster than the recording's length. On the processor alone it's slower, but it still works. The first time, your browser downloads the speech model once; after that, recordings start right away.

You can transcribe without one. To save lectures to your library, organize them into courses and use the AI study tools, create a free account.

When you're signed in, the home page shows the lecture you opened last and your recent lectures. My Library has everything, with search, favorites and courses.

Courses group your lectures by class, like “Biology 201”. They're optional: add one from your home page or the Library, then add lectures to it from a lecture's menu.

On your home page, choose “Add exam” next to a course and enter the exam date, plus the topics it covers if you know them. Your home then counts down to it and lists a plan from that course's lectures: lectures with no study material yet, questions you missed, flashcards that are due and quizzes you haven't taken. For each topic you list, it shows which of the course's lectures mention it, so you can spot a topic you haven't recorded or reviewed.

No. Summaries, notes, flashcards and quiz answers are generated from your transcript, and transcripts can contain mistakes, especially with noisy audio or unusual names. Answers link to the moment in the recording they come from, so you can check. If the lecture doesn't say something, SparkScribe tells you instead of guessing.

When you finish a quiz, the questions you missed are kept, so you can retake just those. Your home page reminds you. Bolt and Thunder plans also turn missed questions into Focused Review: practice on the concepts behind them.

After you see a card's answer, say whether you didn't know it, knew it, or found it easy. Cards you didn't know come back the same day; the ones you knew come back after a few days, then at longer gaps each time you get them right. When cards are due, your home page shows them and the flashcard set offers “Review due cards”. Nothing is due until you've rated a card, and there are no streaks or reminders to keep up with.

Yes. You can edit the text and rename or correct speakers. Study material made from an older version shows a note that it may be out of date.

It counts the length of the recordings you transcribe while signed in. A recording is checked against your remaining time before it starts. Free time resets each month; paid plans renew each billing period. See plans and pricing.

Yes: Flash $59, Bolt $99 or Thunder $149 a year, less than 12 months at the monthly price. Your transcription time still renews every month, so you get your plan's full monthly time all year. The $1 first month of Flash is only for monthly billing. Choose Monthly or Yearly on the pricing page; if you already pay monthly, switch in Plan & billing.

Open Plan & billing from your account menu. Cancelling stops the next renewal: you keep your plan until the end of the period you've paid for, then move to Free. Your lectures stay in your library.

Payments aren't refunded, except for billing errors or service failures, or where the law requires it. If something went wrong, email us and we'll sort it out.

Stripe processes payments. SparkScribe never sees your full card number.

No. Your recording is transcribed inside your browser. By default the original audio is also kept in that browser, so you can play it back with the transcript; you can turn this off or remove it in Settings. It isn't uploaded, and it isn't available on your other devices.

The transcripts you save (text, speaker names, timestamps), your courses, and the study material you create. When you use an AI study tool, the transcript text it needs (never audio) is sent to our AI provider, Anthropic, to produce the result.

Only where you're allowed to. Many schools and instructors have rules about recording lectures. Use SparkScribe for your own study, and don't share material you don't have the right to share.

Go to Settings → Account → Delete account. It deletes your account and everything saved in it, and stops any subscription.