For international students

Understand every lecture, in your own language.

Nomi writes down your class as the teacher speaks and translates each passage right below it. After class, ask it anything about what you heard. All on your Mac.

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Works offline 9 languages Open source
Why Nomi

Lectures move fast. Nomi helps you keep up.

Studying in a second language is hard enough. Nomi takes care of the listening and note-taking, so you can focus on understanding.

The teacher talks fast

Accents, speed and long sentences make it easy to miss a point and lose the thread.

Live text appears as they speak. Missed something? Scroll back and read it.

New words everywhere

Technical terms and idioms slow you down when you are still thinking in your first language.

Each passage is translated right under the original, so you learn both.

Listening or writing?

Taking notes while you listen means you do both badly. Rewatching recordings takes hours.

Get the full transcript, a summary, and answers to your questions.
Features

Everything from class, in one place.

Swipe through what Nomi can do before, during and after a lecture.

During class

Live transcription and translation

Press Start Transcription and Nomi listens through your microphone. Words appear as the teacher speaks, then settle into sentences with the translation underneath.

  • Pause and resume any time
  • Works with AirPods and other mics
  • Jump back to the latest line with one click
03:12
Photosynthesis turns light energy into chemical energy stored in glucose.
光合作用把光能转化为储存在葡萄糖中的化学能。
03:20
It happens mainly in the chloroplasts of leaf cells
During and after class

The teacher's questions, answered

The Q&A tab collects the real questions the teacher asks in class and answers each one from the lecture, your files and the web. A quick way to check you understood.

  • Skips filler like “right?” and “can you hear me?”
  • Jump to the moment each question was asked
  • Turn off Auto-answer to ask them one by one
12:40
Why do we divide by √d in attention?

So the dot products don't grow too large. Softmax then stays smooth and the gradients stay healthy.12:44

18:05Queued
What does multi-head attention add over a single head?
After class

Ask about the lecture

Didn't catch the main idea? Ask Nomi in your own language. Answers point to the exact moment in the transcript or page in your slides.

  • Choose which lectures and files to use
  • Ask about last week's lecture or an earlier chat, and Nomi finds it
  • Turn on Web to add sources from the internet
  • Use a local model or your own API key
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机会成本是你为了做一个选择而放弃的、价值最高的另一个选择。比如教授举的例子：上课的时间本来可以用来打工。24:31 Slides p.7
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Learn by doing

Interactive demos

When an idea is easier to see than to read, Nomi builds a small interactive page right in the chat. Drag a slider, press a button, and watch the concept move.

  • Physics, math, biology, economics
  • Save the page and open it later

Wave frequency

Before class

Keep your slides and readings with the lecture

Import PDFs, slides and documents into Sources. Link them to a meeting, and Nomi reads them together with the transcript when you ask a question.

  • Sort everything into course categories
  • Files stay on your Mac
PDF
Week 4 – Neurons.pdfBiology 101
Linked
PPT
Lecture 4 slides.pptxBiology 101
Linked
DOC
Reading notes.docxBiology 101
PDF
Supply and demand.pdfEconomics
Review

One-click summaries

Turn a 90-minute lecture into the key points, new terms and conclusions. Perfect for revising before an exam.

  • Summary in your reply language
  • Every meeting keeps its own summary

Summary · Biology 101

  • Neurons send signals as action potentials.
  • Myelin makes the signal travel faster.
  • At the synapse, chemicals carry the signal to the next cell.

New terms

axon · 轴突synapse · 突触myelin · 髓鞘
Over time

Learns how you study

Nomi notices what helps you, such as answers in Chinese with English terms, your courses and your exam dates, and uses it next time. You can see, edit or clear everything it remembers.

  • Stays on your Mac
  • Edit, pin or turn it off in Settings

Memory

PreferenceAnswers in Chinese, with English terms in brackets
CourseTakes BIOL 101 and ECON 201
GoalBiology midterm on 2026-11-03
Learning styleLikes interactive demos for formulas
How it works

Three steps. That's it.

1

Start recording

Click Start Transcription, pick your microphone, the lecture language and your language.

2

Follow along

Read the live text and translation while you listen. Light words are still being heard; dark words are final.

3

Review and ask

Open the meeting later for the full transcript, the summary and the teacher's questions with answers, then ask follow-ups in Chat.

Languages

Lectures and translations in 9 languages

Privacy

Your classes stay on your Mac.

Speech recognition and translation run on Apple silicon, without sending your recordings anywhere. You decide if and when anything goes online.

On-device AIRecognition and translation use local models on your Mac.
Works without internetRecord and translate even when the classroom Wi-Fi is down.
You choose for questionsUse a local model, or connect your own API. Keys are kept in the macOS Keychain.
FAQ

Questions students ask

Which Macs does Nomi run on?

Nomi needs a Mac with Apple silicon (M1 or newer) and macOS 26 or later.

Do I need internet in class?

No. After you download the models once, transcription and translation work offline. Internet is only needed if you turn on Web search or use an API model for questions.

Which languages are supported?

Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, German, French, Spanish, Russian and Arabic, both for the lecture and for the translation.

Can I chat with Nomi while it is recording?

Yes. Ask questions during class without stopping the recording. Live transcription keeps priority, so the text keeps up with the teacher.

Can Nomi find something from an earlier class?

Yes. Ask something like “what did the teacher say about the exam last week?” and Nomi searches all your lectures, earlier chats and files, then shows where each part of the answer came from.

Does Nomi remember things about me?

Only what makes answers better: the preferences, courses and goals it learns from your chats. It stays on your Mac, and you can edit, pin, clear or turn it off in Settings › Memory.

Is it okay to record my lectures?

Rules differ between schools and countries. Check your university's policy and ask your teacher before you record a class.

How much does Nomi cost?

Nomi is open source under the MIT license. If you connect your own API for questions, that provider may charge you.

Ready for your next class?

Download Nomi, open it before the lecture starts, and press Start Transcription.

Download for Mac

macOS 26 · Apple silicon