Online classes

Transcribe a Zoom class. No bot joins the call.

Avenotes runs beside Zoom, not in it. It hears the class from your own computer, or reads the recording afterwards, and when class ends you have the transcript and the recap.

Start free

Free: your transcript and recap after every meeting. See the plans

Three ways to do it

In a browser tab

Open the class in a browser tab and Avenotes in another. Press Start listening and share the class’s tab with its audio: it hears everyone, with your microphone mixed in. A class in a desktop meeting app is heard through the microphone.
On a Mac

Avenotes for Mac hears both sides of the call, from your Mac’s own sound. macOS 14.4 or later, Apple silicon and Intel. Download for Mac
From the recording

Have the class’s recording? Upload it afterwards, audio or video, up to 3 hours and 2 GB, and get its transcript and recap. Its length counts against your plan’s minutes.

Ask everyone first, whichever way you choose. Before every meeting, ask people if they’re OK with you recording; if anyone objects, stop.

When class ends, on every plan

The transcript, with each voice labelled. Name a speaker once and the name carries into the transcript and the recap.
Your recap, usually seconds after it ends. What was covered, topic by topic; your action items, each with its deadline when one was said; and the jargon and terms to learn.
Every class’s tasks in one list. Your action items from every recap land in Tasks, grouped by the meeting they came from.
No bot joins the call. Nothing joins the meeting and nobody sees an Avenotes participant. It hears only what your microphone or shared tab plays.
Audio deleted once your transcript is ready. Never sold, and never used to train AI.
The same way beside the others. It works beside Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet and Webex.

Pro plan

Help while the class is still going

In a class, Avenotes explains: what this means, the key idea, why it matters. It never gives you lines to say.

Pro plan
Keep up with a 3-hour lecture

The live transcript puts the words on screen as they are said.
Pro plan
Explain that

The last thing said in plain words: jargon, acronyms, idioms, and what the speaker actually means.
Pro plan
Ask about a slide

On a computer, take a picture of the shared screen, then ask about what is on it.

Good to know

A phone hears only its own microphone. It cannot hear a class playing in another app; for an online class, run Avenotes on a computer.
Avenotes records the class to write its transcript and deletes the audio once the transcript is ready. There is nothing to play back: you keep the words.
Nothing connects to Zoom. Avenotes does not join for you and posts nothing back.
A transcript can mishear a word. Check anything that matters against the class itself.
Avenotes is not affiliated with Zoom. Its name is used only to say what Avenotes works beside.

Questions students ask

Will anyone see Avenotes in the class?

No. Nothing joins the meeting and nobody sees an Avenotes participant. That is also why you ask first: nobody would know otherwise.

Do I have to install anything?

Not in a browser: Avenotes runs in its own tab next to the call. Avenotes for Mac is there if you would rather have an app.

I only have Zoom’s captions file.

Import it as a transcript: paste it, or pick the .vtt, .srt or .txt file. That costs no minutes.

What does it cost?

Free is free: your transcript and recap after every meeting. The plans page has the minutes each plan includes and what Pro costs.

More for students

Try it on your next online class.