for exchange, Erasmus and degree students abroad
Verli works as a study abroad lecture translator on your laptop: it listens to the professor and shows each line with its translation right under it, in 60+ languages. Use the microphone in a lecture hall or desktop audio for an online class, in the browser or the Mac and Windows apps.
sit near the front, your mic will thank you
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Sign in and click the language pill to open Choose Languages. Set Language 1 to the language of the lecture, for example Italian or Korean. Set Language 2 to the language you read best, which does not have to be English. Then click Assistant and turn on Knowledge base. Add the course's key terms and your professor's name under Words to recognize. Use Create new preset to save them under the course name.
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In a lecture hall, keep Microphone on, which is how Verli starts. Sit close to the professor, or near a loudspeaker if they use a microphone, and point the open laptop at the front. For an online class, turn on Desktop audio and turn off Microphone, so room noise stays out of the text. Click the record button when class begins. In the browser, desktop audio works best in Chrome: pick the class tab, turn on Share audio and click Share. The Mac app hears all sound on the Mac. On Windows, choose any screen when recording starts.
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Stop recording when the lecture ends, because minutes count while recording is on. Open the lecture in History and click Generate summary, choosing your language. AI summaries are listed with the Standard plan. Then read the transcript again for deadlines, assignment rules and anything the professor says about the exam.
Spanish to Portuguese, Japanese to English, German to Polish: you choose both sides. Verli translates both ways. It detects which of the two languages is being spoken, so a question you ask in your own language gets translated too. International students in English-taught classes can set English as the lecture language and read every line in their own.
Live translation can get names and subject terms wrong. Add course codes, author names and key terms once to the course preset under Words to recognize. Put exact translations you want under Preferred translations. Presets are saved to your account, so they work on any device you sign in on.
With Save meeting transcripts on, which is the default, every lecture lands in History. Check the summary's Action Items section first for homework. Copy transcript copies the full text to your clipboard, and Include timing keeps the times.
In the Mac and Windows apps, the floating window keeps the current translation above your other apps. That helps when an online class has slides open full width. The Mac app needs macOS 14.2 or later. The Windows app needs 64-bit Windows 10 version 2004 or later.
Verli runs on a laptop or desktop computer. Phone apps are coming soon. For a quick face-to-face chat at the housing office, a phone translator app is the better fit. If your university already provides interpretation or captions for a course, use that. If you teach the class and want students to follow on their own phones, a live share link on Standard or Premium shows them the session's two languages with no account. Verli is the tool a student runs alone when the university provides nothing.
Room audio is the biggest limit in a lecture hall. A laptop in the back row hears the professor faintly, along with every cough and keyboard nearby. Fast speech, strong accents and subject terms also cause mistakes. The course preset helps with the terms. Always check dates, numbers and names against the syllabus or the course page before you rely on them.
Ask before you record. Rules on recording and transcribing lectures differ by university, by country and by professor. Some professors say no. Check your university's policy, ask the professor when in doubt, and respect the answer. In seminars where classmates speak, get their consent where the law or the university requires it. Verli does not store the lecture audio, but the text is saved to your account.
Minutes count while recording is on, including silence and the break in the middle. A 90-minute lecture uses 90 minutes. The 60 minutes you get upon sign-up, with no credit card, cover the first hour of one real class. Recording stops when they run out. Standard costs $7.99 per month for 10 hours, which is about six 90-minute lectures. Premium costs $19.99 per month with the same 10 hours plus more natural voice translation. Voice translation reads lines aloud in the Mac and Windows apps, so in class you would hear it through headphones. Prices are in USD.
A full timetable adds up fast. Fifteen hours of class a week would use a whole month of Standard minutes in under a week. If that is you, start with the classes you struggle with most. Standard and Premium members can add 5-hour or 10-hour minute packs, which stay valid for 12 months.
Yes. Verli shows each line of a lecture as text, with the translation right under it, while the professor speaks. It runs on a laptop in the browser or in the Mac and Windows apps, and works with 60+ languages.
Not yet. Phone apps are coming soon. For now, bring a laptop and open the web app or the Mac or Windows app.
Phone translator apps are a good fit for short face-to-face chats. For a full lecture, you want a tool that keeps listening for 90 minutes and keeps the full text. Verli does that on a laptop. It uses the course terms you add and saves the lecture to History when you stop, as long as Save meeting transcripts is on.
It depends on your university, your country and your professor. Check the university's recording policy and ask the professor first. If the answer is no, do not record that class.
You get 60 minutes free upon sign-up, no credit card, which covers the first hour of one class. Standard ($7.99 per month) and Premium ($19.99 per month) both include 10 hours, about six 90-minute lectures. Minutes count while recording is on, so stop recording when class ends. Members can add 5-hour or 10-hour minute packs.
There are 60+ languages to choose from, including Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Dutch and Polish. You can pair any two. For example, a class in Italian can be translated into Polish. Accuracy drops with fast speech, strong accents, subject terms and a microphone far from the speaker. Sit near the front, add course terms to a preset, and check dates and names against the syllabus.
No. You need an internet connection, because Verli streams the audio live while you record. Connect to campus Wi-Fi before the lecture starts.
Sign up and get 60 minutes free, no credit card. Set your two languages before the professor starts.
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