A lecture is recorded the way the room is recorded: with the Voice Memos app of a phone, with the Recorder app, or with a meeting platform.
Lecture recording to file in English
Lecture recording to file in English: send the file and get the text with the timecodes. One file may be up to 30 minutes on the free plan, no minute limit on Pro.
Upload the Lecture recording from the Phone recorder and ask for the minutes. The speech is in English, the engine keeps the time of every line, and one file may be up to 30 minutes. The free plan gives 3 files a day.
How to get the file and turn it into file
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Find the file
The recording of the Recorder app is in the Files app of the phone
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Give the file to the service
The Lecture recording goes to the service through the upload widget; the speech is English, and the minutes comes back into the chat.
- 3
Ask the written instruction for the minutes
The instruction that is set for this task goes through the transcript of the Lecture recording and writes the minutes in the sections Attendees, Agenda, Discussion by item; nothing is added that was not said.
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Set the language of the speech
The speech of the Lecture recording is English, one of the 99+ languages the engine reads, and the widget is left on English while the minutes is written.
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Check the file before the upload
The Recorder app of a phone labels the sounds of the recording and makes a transcript of it
What comes back from the engine
- TXT
One segment per line, the way a person wrote it down. It is the format to paste into a ticket, a chat or a document.
- TXT, CSV
The start and the end time of every segment, and the speakers named separately when you ask for it.
- SRT, VTT
SRT and VTT with the time of every line, so the recording can carry its own subtitles.
- Markdown, DOCX
The transcript is edited through the API and exported as Markdown for a wiki, or as DOCX for a review.
What Phone recorder keeps, and what it says about it
The recording of the Recorder app is kept in the Files app of the phone.
The Recorder app of a phone labels the sounds of the recording and makes a transcript of it.
The Recorder app records up to 18 hours, so one lecture can be a very long file.
up to 30 minutes on the free plan, no minute limit on Pro
$0: 3 files a day, up to 30 minutes per file, no card
$10 a month when you pay yearly ($120 a year), or $20 a month
What the recording does not give you
The Lecture recording from the Phone recorder holds the voices and the order of the words. The recording of the Recorder app is kept in the Files app of the phone. From that text comes the minutes, in the sections Attendees, Agenda, Discussion by item.
Tips
The sections of the minutes are the same for every recording.
A recording of the Lecture recording in English is read as English.
Rename the file of the Lecture recording before you send it.
The Recorder app records up to 18 hours, so one lecture can be a very long file.
Questions about Lecture recording and file
What does the Phone recorder keep for the Lecture recording?
The recording of the Recorder app is kept in the Files app of the phone. The file of the Lecture recording is the input of the engine, and the minutes is written from it.
What does the Phone recorder say about the Lecture recording?
The Recorder app records up to 18 hours, so one lecture can be a very long file. The engine reads the English speech of the Lecture recording and writes the minutes from that text.
How is the minutes built from the Lecture recording?
The engine reads the English speech and the instruction writes the minutes in the sections Attendees, Agenda, Discussion by item; every line comes from the transcript of the Lecture recording.
Is there a limit to the length of the Lecture recording?
One file of the Lecture recording may be up to 30 minutes on the free plan; the free plan gives 3 files a day.
Is a link enough for the Lecture recording?
Bring the file of the Lecture recording to your own disk and upload it here; the engine returns the minutes with the time of every line.
Related pages
The same task on another recording, with the same steps and the same sections.
Meeting minutes ready to fileThe page of the task: the instruction that is written for it and an example of the answer.
Transcribe audio to textWhat the service does with a file: the formats of the export, the limits and the plans.
Lecture recording to textWhere Phone recorder keeps the file, what it holds and what the engine does with it.
Sources
- SiPhone user guide: make a recording (read 2026-10-24)support.apple.com · checked
- SGoogle Pixel help: the Recorder app (read 2026-10-24)support.google.com · checked
- TTranscription service page (read 2026-10-25)transcrib.si · checked
- TPricing page (read 2026-10-25)transcrib.si · checked
Drop a recording — the text arrives in a minute
Speakers by name, a time on every line, export to TXT, SRT, VTT, CSV and Markdown.