Turn a lecture recording into notes you can actually revise from
Record the class on your phone or upload a recording you already have. eNotee transcribes it, then builds an overview, the key points worth remembering, flashcards and exam-style questions — all from what was said in that room, not from a model's general knowledge of the subject.
What you can feed it
- A lecture you record in the eNotee app on iOS or Android
- An audio file you already have — a voice memo, a Zoom or Teams recording, an MP3 or M4A
- Recordings up to 90 minutes on Starter, 3 hours on Student, uncapped on Scholar
How it works
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Record it, or upload it
In the app, hit record and put the phone down — recording keeps running when the screen locks or you switch apps, which is the part that usually fails in a two-hour class. On iOS there is a Lock Screen timer with pause and resume. If you already have the file, upload it from the web instead.
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It gets transcribed
Speech becomes searchable text, so you can skim the whole class in a minute and jump to the exact moment something was said rather than scrubbing through audio.
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The study material is built from the transcript
Not from the subject in general — from that transcript. If your lecturer spent twenty minutes on one edge case and skipped the textbook chapter, the notes follow the lecturer.
What comes back
Exactly what you get
- A searchable transcript
- The full text of the class, so you can quote it, search it, and find the bit you half-remember.
- An overview and up to 12 key insights
- A short summary of what the lecture established, plus the individual facts most likely to be examined, pulled from across the whole recording rather than just the opening.
- Flashcards
- Front-and-back pairs you can drill. Reviews run on SM-2 spaced repetition with four ratings — Again, Hard, Good, Easy — so cards you keep missing come back sooner.
- Exam-style questions
- Multiple-choice with four options and a marked answer, or theory questions that come with a model answer and a marking rubric.
Under the hood
How it actually handles this
Long lectures are handled in pieces, then joined
A ninety-minute class is far too long to summarise in one pass, so it is split into excerpts, each one digested into a short summary plus its most exam-relevant facts, and those are interleaved into the final notes. That is why the key points cover the end of the lecture as well as the beginning — a naive summariser tends to forget everything after the first twenty minutes.
Subject vocabulary is biased into the transcription
Tell eNotee you study Medicine, Law or Nursing and the transcriber is primed with that field's vocabulary before it hears a word. Generic speech recognition reliably mangles terms like myocardial infarction, anastomosis or cause of action; priming it is what stops your notes filling with confident nonsense.
The audio stops being playable before the notes expire
Original recordings stay playable for 90 days on Starter, 240 on Student and 730 on Scholar. Transcripts, summaries and flashcards are kept indefinitely on every plan, and stay readable even if a subscription lapses. Nothing you generate is deleted when a window closes, and upgrading makes an old recording playable again.
What it doesn’t do
Worth knowing before you spend an evening on it.
- The web app does not record. Live recording is in the iOS and Android apps; on the web you upload a file you already have.
- It cannot take a YouTube or other video link. Audio and document files only.
- Speaker labels are not separated — a seminar with heavy crosstalk transcribes as one stream.
- Very poor audio produces poor notes. A phone at the back of a large hall with a quiet lecturer is the hardest case, and nothing downstream can recover detail the microphone never captured.
Questions
- Does recording keep going if I lock my phone?
- Yes. On Android it runs as a foreground service and on iOS there is a Lock Screen Live Activity with a timer and pause and resume controls. This is the specific failure most voice recorders have in a long class, so it was built for deliberately.
- How long can one lecture be?
- 90 minutes on Starter, 3 hours on Student, and uncapped on Scholar. The monthly transcription allowance is separate: 300 minutes on Starter, 900 on Student, 3,000 on Scholar.
- Can I upload a Zoom or Teams recording?
- Yes, if you export the audio and upload the file. eNotee cannot join a call or pull from a meeting link itself.
- Do my notes disappear if I stop paying?
- No. Transcripts, summaries and flashcards are kept indefinitely on every plan including free. Only playback of the original audio file is time-limited, and it comes back if you upgrade.
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