Transcribe audio to text, FREE.

Audio to text conversion — also called transcription or speech to text — turns spoken words in a recording into written text. An AI speech recognition model listens to the audio and writes out what it hears, so you can read, search, copy and edit it.

Drop your file into the box at the top of this page, or click Record to capture from your microphone. The transcript comes back in seconds and you can copy it or download it as a .txt file. There is no signup and no payment step — it is free.

No. This audio to text converter runs entirely in your browser and on our servers — there is nothing to download, nothing to install, and no account to create. Open the page and transcribe.

MP3, WAV, M4A, FLAC, AAC, OGG, Opus and WebM audio, plus MP4, MOV, MKV and other video files — the audio track is read straight out of them. If your browser can play it, we can almost certainly transcribe it.

There is no practical length limit. Large or uncompressed files are converted to a compact format in your browser before upload, and recordings longer than about two hours are split into parts automatically and stitched back into one transcript.

Your file is sent over an encrypted HTTPS connection, transcribed in memory, and returned as text. We do not store your audio or your transcript on our servers, and nothing is kept after the request finishes.

We use the most accurate speech recognition model available to us, and clear speech generally comes back near-perfect. Accuracy is not guaranteed: heavy accents, crosstalk, background noise and unusual proper nouns can still trip up any speech model, so check the transcript before relying on it.