Live Transcribe Meetings, Lectures and Conversations

Live transcribe without installing anything

Live transcription apps usually mean installing something on a phone. HeyScribe runs in the browser you already have open, on a laptop, tablet or phone, so you can start a session in seconds, including on a computer where you cannot install software.

Words appear in two stages. First, a faint draft of the sentence you are hearing, which updates as the speaker continues. Then, when they pause, it settles into a finished line with a timestamp. That makes it easy to follow along without waiting for the end of a sentence.

Getting a good live transcript

• Place the microphone near the speaker. For a lecture, that means close to the lecturer, not the back of the room.
• Use tab audio for online meetings. It captures the meeting sound directly, which is clearer than picking it up through speakers.
• Choose the spoken language first. Language is set per session.
• Name the session. You will thank yourself when you search your library later.

Live captions for people who are hard of hearing

Seeing speech as text can help people who are deaf or hard of hearing follow a conversation or class. HeyScribe is an automatic tool, so it is not a replacement for a professional captioner where one is required, but it is a handy extra layer. For the technical background, read about real-time transcription.

After the session you can polish the transcript, or use AI transcription tools to summarize it.