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Lecture recordings

Want Claude to know what was said in class? Recordings can become timestamped transcripts:

  • YouTube links in Ed “Week N … Recording” posts: the YouTube captions are fetched directly, which is fast.
  • Zoom recordings: downloaded with the passcode from the post, then transcribed on your computer with Whisper. A two-hour lecture takes 20 to 30 minutes on an ordinary laptop.

These extras are large (about 1 GB), so they are not installed by default. To add them:

Terminal window
uv tool install --reinstall "monash-study-kit[media]"

Then run it when you want. It never runs in the background, so it will not slow your computer down.

Terminal window
monash media

A slow computer can use a smaller model: monash media --model base.en. To try only a few videos first: monash media --limit 2.

Videos uploaded straight to Moodle are not downloaded by default (they are often hundreds of MB) and are saved as links instead. To download them: monash config download_videos true.