How to turn audio into text
- Choose your audio file in the box above, or drop it there. MP3, WAV, M4A, OGG, FLAC and WEBM are accepted.
- Pick the language spoken in the recording and click Transcribe. The first time, create your free account: your file stays in place and the transcription continues on its own.
- Read the text on the page, then copy it or download it.
Timestamps on every passage
Each passage of the transcript starts with its time in the recording, so you can find a quote again in seconds. Untick the timestamps option when you want plain text only. For a single file you can also download the result as subtitles, in SRT or VTT format.
Give a recording to ChatGPT or Claude
Paste the transcript into an AI assistant and it can summarise a meeting, list the decisions and the next steps, pull quotes from an interview or turn a voice memo into a clean note. The text comes out as Markdown, a plain text format that ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini read without any cleanup. See what ChatGPT can really do with an audio file.
Several recordings at once
Select several files and each one gets its own transcript. When they are done you can download them all in one ZIP file.
What to know before you start
- You need a free account. It comes with free credits every month, and a transcript uses credits according to the length of the recording.
- The largest file and the longest recording you can transcribe depend on your plan.
- Speech recognition works best on clear speech. Music, background noise and people talking over each other lower the accuracy: check the passages that matter.
For a video, or a link from YouTube and other platforms, see video to text and the YouTube transcript generator. More detail in the MP3 to text guide.