TalkLens vs BeginClass

Never lose a word from a meeting, lecture, interview, conference, or talk. TalkLens captures speech around you, shows live captions, translates as people speak, and turns each recording into searchable notes you can revisit and chat with later. LIVE CAPTIONS AND TRANSLATION • Follow talks in real time with clear, streaming captions • Translate between 12 supported languages • Customize caption size, colors, order, and background • Add vocabulary, speaker details, or slides to improve context NOTES THAT STAY USEFUL • Generate summaries, key points, action items, glossaries, and review questions • Ask questions about any recording and get answers grounded in its transcript • Search by meaning across your recordings • Bookmark important moments and organize talks in your library SHARE THE MOMENT • Share a completed recording with a link • Broadcast live captions to a single viewer at no per-viewer cost, or to groups of up to 200 • Let broadcast viewers follow in their preferred language MADE FOR IPHONE • On iPhones running iOS 26 or later, transcribe privately on-device for free in supported languages • Choose cloud transcription when you want higher accuracy • Upload existing audio files for transcription • Save audio for playback, or keep only the transcript and notes Start free with welcome AI Credits. Cloud transcription, translation, AI notes, chat, multi-viewer broadcasting, and viewer-chosen broadcast languages use credits. Add optional credit packs with a one-time purchase—no subscription. Supported languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, and Vietnamese.

Turn every class into text, translations, and study-ready highlights you can revisit anytime. BeginClass is a smart lecture-notes app built for classes, online courses, seminars, and learning across languages. Follow a live transcript while the class is happening, then review the recording, transcript, bookmarks, translations, and AI summary together after class. LIVE LECTURE TRANSCRIPTION Choose the language being spoken and see timestamped transcript segments appear while you record. It is useful for university lectures, online courses, seminars, interviews, meetings, and study discussions. REAL-TIME TRANSLATION Display the original transcript and translated text together for supported language pairs, helping you keep up in a class taught in another language. You can also translate the complete saved transcript after class. RECORDING, TRANSCRIPT, AND BOOKMARKS TOGETHER Each recording stays with its transcript. Listen while you read, add bookmarks during class, and return quickly to the moments you want to review. AI CLASS SUMMARIES Create a structured summary from a saved transcript to identify key ideas, learning points, and review cues. The transcript is sent to the AI service only when you explicitly request a summary. TRANSCRIBE AUDIO AND VIDEO FILES Import recordings, audio, and video from Files or Photos, or send supported media to BeginClass from another app. Turn course recordings, podcasts, talks, and interviews into searchable text. PHOTO AND CONVERSATION TRANSLATION Capture or choose slides, handouts, whiteboards, and other images to recognize and translate their text. Two-way conversation translation helps with office hours, group discussions, and everyday communication. SYSTEM AUDIO AND FLOATING CAPTIONS On supported iPhone and iPad devices, use the system broadcast panel to transcribe course audio playing in another app. Picture in Picture can keep live captions visible while you use other apps. BeginClass does not save screen video. SEARCH, REVIEW, AND SHARE Search notes by title or transcript content, compare original and translated text, listen to the associated recording, and copy or share the text you need. Great for: - International students and multilingual classes - University lectures, online courses, and seminars - Study groups, interviews, and meetings - Course recordings, podcasts, and educational videos - Language learning and cross-language conversations Privacy and requirements: 1. BeginClass requires iOS 26 or later. 2. Speech recognition, text recognition, and Apple Translation use on-device system technologies. An Apple language model may need to be downloaded the first time you use a language. 3. Lecture transcription and real-time translation work offline. AI class summaries require an internet connection, and the current transcript is submitted to generate the summary. 4. System-audio transcription requires authorization and activation through the iOS system broadcast panel. Protected, silent, or unavailable audio may not be captured. 5. Results vary with the device, system language-model support, recording quality, background noise, and speech. 6. All features are free to use. No registration or account is required. Contact: support@miremire.com Privacy Policy: https://beginclass.ai/privacy/ Terms of Service: https://beginclass.ai/terms/