To transcribe a webinar or online course on a Mac, capture the session's audio live with system-audio transcription while it plays, or drop the replay file in afterward — either way you get timestamped text you can search instead of hours of video you'd have to rewatch. TranscribeAnything works with any platform (Zoom webinars, Teachable, Udemy, Coursera, YouTube embeds, internal training portals) because it transcribes what your Mac plays, not what one service exposes.
Course platforms rarely hand you a transcript, and each one hides its player behind different controls. Capturing at the system-audio level makes the platform irrelevant: if it plays on your Mac, it transcribes — Zoom and Teams webinars, cohort courses, video lessons in a browser tab, even DRM'd players that block downloads (the audio still plays, so it still transcribes).
An hour-long session becomes searchable notes in minutes. TranscribeAnything runs Apple's on-device speech engine at up to 80× realtime, supports 10 languages, and costs $19.99/year for unlimited transcription — the first 5 transcriptions (up to 30 minutes each) are free.
The economics of a transcript are simple: reading is 3–5× faster than watching, and searching is instant. A six-hour course becomes a document you can skim, quote, and query. Pair it with an AI — 'summarize module 3', 'list every tool the instructor mentioned' — and the course becomes something closer to a reference book than a video queue.