Lecture recap by voice
Right after a lecture, retell the key ideas by voice — the text is ready. 5× faster than reconstructing from paper notes.
🎓 Use case
Voice typing for students and researchers
Lecture notes, dissertation drafts, bilingual notes without switching layouts. Free — 10,000 words/day.
Sound familiar?
- Hand-writing lectures is slow, typing is distracting
- A 100+ page dissertation feels scary to start from blank
- Studying in two languages, switching layouts is annoying
- Paid software is not an option on a student budget
What changes with AuroraWhisp
Dictate a dissertation draft
The hardest part is starting. By voice you "dump" raw thoughts, then edit. Psychologically way easier than staring at empty Word.
Two languages, one tap
Switch the recognition language in a second. You can even bind languages to different hotkeys: Ctrl+Space — RU, F9 — EN.
Free tier — 10,000 words/day
For most students that lasts a long time. Pro — $19.90 once — also affordable on a student budget.
A concrete student-researcher workflow
In class you record audio on your phone (or Voice Recorder in Windows). At home: drop the file onto transcribe.bat → in a minute or two you have a txt of the 90-minute lecture. Open in Notion / Obsidian, voice-summarise the key points (5-10 minutes). Term paper in Word: voice for draft paragraphs, keyboard for editing and formatting. Citations and references — by hand. Notes for the dissertation — voice in Notion, tags by keyboard.
Realistic expectations: 100-page dissertation by voice
Voice handles ~70% of the draft. The remaining 30% — formulas, tables, careful citation, departmental formatting, plagiarism checks. Better done by hand. But 70% of a draft by voice means dictating a 100-page text in 8-12 hours instead of 30-40 hours of typing. And your hands are not destroyed by defence day.
Speed numbers
A typical student types at 30-40 wpm (less with edits). Voice: 100-130 wpm sustained, up to 180 at peaks. Transcribing an hour of lecture via transcribe.bat — about a minute on CPU. Manual transcription — 4-6 hours. The Free tier of 10,000 words/day is about 10 A4 pages at 14pt. Enough for an average paper across 1-2 weeks.
Bilingual mixed-language notes
If your field uses a lot of English jargon — dictate in English for those parts, switching by hotkey. Main text in your native language. Alternative — Auto mode, which detects language from audio, but it works worse for short English insertions in a longer non-English sentence than explicit switching. Best practice: Ctrl+Space — primary, F9 — English. After a week the switch becomes automatic, like keyboard layouts.