Help every student follow your thinking.
Live captions and a translated voice for every student, on their own phone, in the language they think in. Students scan a code and follow your lecture as you give it. No app, no account.
Free pilots for university courses.
At the lectern,
and in every seat.
Teach the way you already do. Follow one class from both sides: what you do at the front of the room, and what a student sees in their seat.
Set up the course once.
Name the course, choose your students' languages, and add the terms you'll use. A recurring course keeps the same link and QR code all semester, along with its terms.
Example Illustrative course and students
Teach. Students follow on their phones.
Press Start and teach as you always do. Students scan the QR code for their language and read live captions, with no app and no account. Students who would rather listen turn on a translated voice and use earphones.
Example Illustrative course and students
A student loses the thread.Pilot feature
They tap Wait, what? and get what was just said explained in their language, with a question to check themselves. You see where the class got lost: how many students, at which moment. Never who.
Example Illustrative course and students
The lecture stays.
Students can reread the class from the same link. You get a polished transcript with a summary and chapters, ready to export.
Example Illustrative course and students
A class,
in about a minute.
How a course works with Subsume, and what students do on their phones. Each film comes in English, Korean, and Japanese.
How a course runs: the setup, the lecture, and what reaches students' phones.
Transcript
When you're explaining a difficult idea, you want students to follow your thinking.
That's harder when they're also learning in another language.
Subsume helps them stay with your explanation.
You teach as you normally would.
Students open your class link, choose a language,
and follow with live captions or translated audio.
Before class, add your subject and the terms you'll be using.
That gives the translation useful context.
Here's a short example from an economics lesson.
So, the price goes up by ten percent, and the quantity demanded falls by twenty percent.
In percentage terms, that's twice the change.
자, 가격이 십 퍼센트 올랐더니 수요량은 이십 퍼센트 줄었습니다.
비율로 보면, 수요량이 가격보다 두 배 더 크게 변한 거죠.
One class, with more ways to follow.
Subsume. Help every student follow your thinking.
What students do: open the link, read along, or listen.
Transcript
Open the link your professor shares.
You can join without creating an account.
Choose a language available for your class.
As your professor explains an idea,
the captions help you follow in that language.
Make the text comfortable to read.
Open caption settings to adjust the size.
If translated audio is available,
turn it on and listen through headphones.
Subsume. Stay with the explanation.
The name: subsume
/səbˈsuːm/verb
- 1To include something within a larger whole.
- 2In learning: to connect a new idea to what a student already understands, so the idea has somewhere to belong.
“If I had to reduce all of educational psychology to just one principle, I would say this: the most important single factor influencing learning is what the learner already knows.”
Language is where learning begins.
Ausubel's next sentence was the instruction: find out what the student already knows, and teach from there. Everything a student knows, they know in a language: the one they think in. A new idea has to reach that language before it can connect. In a lecture given in a second language, each idea waits in translation in the student's head, and by the time it arrives, you've moved on.
Subsume is a real-time TA for that gap. It sits beside every student as you lecture and carries each idea into the language they think in, so their attention goes to your ideas instead of your words, and they get the most out of every lecture. That's the name: to subsume a new idea is to bring it into what a student already knows.
- As you speak
Your words reach each student in their language as you say them, in captions and a voice.
- When a student is lost Pilot
They ask in their own language and are caught up in seconds. You see where the room got lost.
- Across the term
It learns your course's terms and carries them into every language, lecture after lecture.
How much of a great lecture a student keeps should depend on their curiosity and their effort. Never on the language they grew up in.
Try it with one course.
Free for a pilot.
For a professor and a program lead who want to see it in a real class before deciding anything.
Or write to hello@subsume.io.
You bring
- A course taught in English, Korean, Japanese, Spanish, Mandarin or Cantonese
- Your laptop and a microphone at the lectern
- Five minutes in the first class to show the QR code
Students need
- A phone
- Earphones, if they want to listen
| Week 0 | A 30-minute setup call.Your course, its languages and terms, and a microphone check. |
|---|---|
| Weeks 1–6 | Every class, live.Captions and a translated voice for students, with Wait, what? switched on. |
| Each week | A short check-in.What students read and heard, and anything to adjust. |
| Week 6 | A review together.What worked, where students asked for help, and whether to continue. |
What we keep,
and what we don't.
The questions a program lead asks first, answered plainly.
Read the privacy policyWe don't keep recordings.
Subsume captions and translates as you speak, and doesn't save the audio.
No student accounts.
Students open a link. Nothing to sign up for, nothing to install.
Private questions stay private.Pilot feature
With Wait, what?, you see how many students asked at each moment. Never who.
You decide what stays.
Delete a class and it's erased 30 days later.
Help new knowledge
find its place.
Start with one course. We'll set it up with you.
Speaking outside a classroom?Subsume for any talk