Lectures & transcripts
Record a class or drop in the audio, and get chapters, a clickable transcript and written notes back.
Record a class while it's happening, or hand us audio you already have, and we write it up for you: a transcript you can click through, chapters along the timeline, and a set of notes. Everything lands in your Locker beside the rest of your material. Recording and playback come with AI Pro — without it, both the record page and a lecture's own page show "Get AI Pro to unlock this feature".
Start a recording
Click Record Lecture in the sidebar. The button sits above the navigation and only shows while the sidebar is expanded.
The page opens on New Recording and tries to fill in the Class that meets closest to right now. Change it if we guessed wrong, and pick one yourself if the box is empty — a class with no meeting times can't be guessed at. The file drop area and Start Recording stay switched off until a class is picked.
Click Start Recording and let your browser use the microphone. If you turn it down, we say "Microphone access denied. Allow the mic and try again."
A timer runs while the page reads "Recording…". Pause recording and Resume recording cover a break — paused reads "Paused" — and Cancel recording throws the take away.
Click Finish when class ends. You get the length and "Recording finished — save it or discard it?"
Click Save Recording. We show "Uploading lecture…", then tell you we're transcribing it and writing your notes, and to check back in a few minutes. Discard keeps nothing.
Stay on the recording page
The recording lives on that page until you save it. Switching to another browser tab is fine — but don't close the tab, and don't go anywhere else in Due Gooder while it's running. The back arrow throws the take away, and opening any other page loses it with no warning.
Recordings stop at three hours
Ten minutes before the cap we warn you — "Recordings cap at 3 hours — we'll finish and save automatically in 10 minutes." At three hours we stop the recorder and drop you on the save screen with "Recording reached the 3-hour limit, so we stopped it — review and save it below." Nothing is lost; you still choose Save Recording or Discard.
Record on your phone
The iPhone and Android app records too, and needs AI Pro the same way.
Open the Locker tab and tap the + button in the bottom corner, labeled Add material or generate a study set.
Pick the class from the list — the first one is ticked to start with — then tap Start recording.
Pause recording and Resume recording cover a break. Finish recording ends it, and Discard recording throws it away.
Tap Save & transcribe. The app uploads it and drops you in the Recordings folder of your Locker; the notes and transcript follow a few minutes later, the same as on the web.
The setup screen says "Stay on this screen while recording.", and it means it: the phone doesn't record in the background, so keep the app open on that screen until you tap Finish recording. Going back discards the take. The screen stays awake on its own, so you don't need to keep tapping it.
Upload audio you already have
Open Record Lecture and pick a Class.
Click Drop an audio file, or click to browse, or drag the file onto it. The line underneath reads "MP3, WAV, M4A, or WebM — up to 250MB".
An uploaded file goes straight into processing; there's no save-or-discard step the way there is after a live recording. A file that isn't one of those types is turned away with "That file type isn't supported. Try MP3, WAV, M4A, or WebM audio.", and one over the cap gets "That file is too big — audio uploads are capped at 250MB."
While we're working on it
The page moves through three messages: "Uploading your lecture…", then "Transcribing your lecture…" with "Longer lectures can take a few minutes.", then "Generating chapters & notes…".
You don't have to wait on the page
Close the tab and we'll keep going. When it's ready we email you a link, under the subject "👨🏫 Lecture done processing". If you stay put, the page opens the finished lecture on its own.
Play it back
Open Locker, expand Recordings under Materials, and click the recording — or hover it and click Play.
The player sits at the top: a round play button in your class's color, the time you're at, and a bar you can click to move through the audio, or focus and nudge with the arrow keys. The bar is split into chapter sections rather than a list. Hover one and its title pops up above the bar; click it to land in that part of the class.
Notes and transcript
Two tabs sit under the player. AI Notes opens first and holds the written-up version of the class. Transcript is every sentence with the time it was said — click a line and the audio jumps there. Whichever line is playing stays highlighted, and the list scrolls itself to keep up. Scroll it by hand and it leaves you alone for about four seconds, then picks the playing line up again.
If a tab is empty it says so: "Notes haven't been generated yet." or "No transcript is available for this recording."
Turn a lecture into study material
Make Flashcards and Make Practice Test sit between the player and the tabs. We aim for 20 cards across question-and-answer, vocabulary and definitions, and for 20 multiple choice and true or false questions on the test. Both read the recording and its notes. What you've made shows up at the bottom of the page; hover one for View, Analytics and Delete.
Where recordings live afterwards
When processing finishes we rename the recording to a title written from what was actually said, so Recordings in your Locker reads like a list of topics rather than a list of dates. Hover a card there for Play, Download and Delete.
The notes are saved as a material of their own, filed under AI Notes and named after the lecture with "— AI Notes" on the end.
Both the recording and the notes get indexed, so Locker search and Duey can use what your professor said the same way they use your slides.
If processing fails
A lecture that couldn't be processed says "Something went wrong processing this lecture." with a Try again button under it. Retry picks up the audio we already have, so you never have to record or upload it a second time. If the restart itself doesn't take, you'll see "Couldn't restart processing. Please try again." — click Try again once more.
If a recording sits stuck on the same message for two hours or more, we check on it regularly and start it over for you without being asked.
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Last updated August 31, 2026