Free AI Lecture Summarizer

How it works

From a long transcript to a page you can review in five minutes.

1. 1

   Paste the transcript

   Paste the transcript of the session, up to 15,000 characters, and add its title if you want it on the summary. Pick Standard or Brief.

2. 2

   Sign in and summarize

   Sign in with Google, Apple or an email code (it creates a free ParrotNotes account) and press Summarize. The summary takes about 10 to 20 seconds.

3. 3

   Review and keep it

   Read the summary, test yourself with the review questions, then copy it as text or Markdown, or download a .md file for your notes.

Where to get a transcript

The summarizer works on text. Three ways to get the text of a session you attended.

• Record it with the ParrotNotes app

  Record the session on your phone or Mac with ParrotNotes and it transcribes the recording for you, then writes the summary on its own. On the free plan a recording can run up to 30 minutes; Pro records up to 3 hours.

• Transcribe a recording on this site

  Have an audio file already? The free Audio to Text Converter turns a recording of up to 10 minutes into a transcript you can paste straight into the box above.

• Use the webinar's own transcript

  Many webinar and video-meeting platforms offer a transcript or caption file for a recorded session. Open it, copy the text and paste it here; timestamps and speaker labels are fine to leave in.

What you get

A study page built only from what the speaker said.

• A summary

  Three to five sentences on what the session covered and its main message, or two sentences in the Brief setting.

• Key points

  Four to eight points in the order the speaker made them, one idea each.

• Terms explained

  The terms the speaker defined, explained the way the speaker explained them. No outside definitions.

• Review questions

  Three to five questions with the answers hidden until you tap Show answer, so you can check what stuck.

• Follow-ups

  What the speaker told you to do, read or prepare next, pulled out so it does not get lost in the transcript.

• Copy or download

  Copy the whole page as text or Markdown, or download a .md file for your notes app.

Made for learning at work

The sessions people sit through at work are long, and the follow-up is usually on you.

• Training and onboarding

  Sales training, product training and the first weeks of a new job: keep the points that matter and the homework the trainer set.

• Continuing education and in-services

  Nurses and other clinicians in a CE class, orientation or in-service: a summary and review questions from the session itself, not from a textbook.

• Webinars and lunch-and-learns

  An hour-long webinar becomes a page you can read in five minutes and share with the colleague who missed it.