How do you manage lecture notes when professors are hard to understand because of accents?

The mentor said she discovered Notion AI in her final semester and found it genuinely useful. It transcribes lectures in real time while running on a laptop in class. On days when she was exhausted or the class was moving too fast to keep up manually, she would keep the transcription running alongside her own notes and refer back to it after class if she had missed something.

• Recording lectures is not officially permitted at SMU.
• Using Notion AI quietly for personal reference, without distributing the content, is a practical workaround that does not cause any disruption.
• The mentor still made her own notes simultaneously and used the transcription only as a backup for things she missed.
• Accents become easier to understand over time, she said that now when she hears a Singaporean accent outside India, it feels like home.