Audio to text

Upload an MP3, M4A, WAV or a voice memo and get the words back as text, with timestamps if you want them. Free, no sign-up.

How to transcribe an audio file

  1. Choose the recording

    Any common audio format works: MP3, M4A (what iPhone voice memos and most phone recorders save), WAV, AAC, OGG or FLAC. Video files work as well — only their sound is used.

  2. Let it transcribe

    The browser converts the recording to a small mono file before uploading, so even a long recording goes up quickly. The language is detected on its own.

  3. Copy or download the text

    Turn on Timestamps to see when each line was said — handy for quoting an interview or writing show notes. Download as TXT, or as SRT/VTT if the audio belongs to a video.

Voice memos from an iPhone

Open the recording in Voice Memos, tap the share button and save it to Files (or AirDrop it to your Mac). It's an M4A file — pick it here directly, on the phone or on the computer.

Interviews, lectures and podcasts

Recordings up to 30 minutes go in one piece; split anything longer into parts. The transcript doesn't label who is speaking, so for an interview it helps to switch on timestamps and mark the speakers yourself while reading. Clear audio matters more than anything else: a microphone close to the speaker beats a phone on the far side of the table.

Which languages are supported?

Around a hundred, detected automatically — including English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Russian, Ukrainian, Arabic, Hindi, Turkish, Japanese, Korean and Chinese. A recording that switches between languages is transcribed in the one that dominates.

Is my recording kept?

No. The audio is sent to our server only to be transcribed, by Groq (or OpenAI if Groq is down), who don't train on it, and is deleted as soon as the text is ready. More in the privacy policy.

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