Convert audio to text

In an account — free or Pro, with the same features — the transcript comes with:

Who spoke

In American English, British English and Indian English, the transcript separates the voices into Speaker 1, Speaker 2 and so on; you rename each label once, and the name holds for the whole transcript. In Australian English and Philippine English, it separates them too, on recordings of up to 2 hours. If the separation fails, the transcript comes without speaker labels, and says so.

A time on every word

Click any line to hear that passage; the transcript follows the audio while it plays.

Editing in the text itself

Fix a misheard word where it sits, while the passage plays.

Export

Word (DOCX), TXT, SRT and VTT, on every plan.

Summary, translation and questions

Summarise the recording in the shape that fits it, translate the transcript into another language, and ask questions about it; the answers point to the moment in the recording.

We accept MP3, M4A, WAV, OGG, Opus, MP4, MOV and WebM, among others. Video is transcribed from its sound track, so an MP4 or MOV from a phone needs no converting first.

Transcription works in 82 languages, and the language can be detected automatically — with a limit, stated below, where a recording switches between languages. Every automatic transcript has errors, and they cluster on proper names, numbers and technical terms. Before you quote a passage, click the line and listen: with a time on every word, that check takes seconds.

Without an account, the trial transcribes up to the first 10 minutes of a recording. On Pro, each file can be up to 8 hours, within the month's included hours; what each plan includes, the pricing page shows. See plans and prices.

On long recordings, speaker labels can wander from one section to the next — a consequence of how long audio is processed, not a setting.

Name the main language rather than leaving it on automatic. Automatic detection has to decide what language each stretch of speech is in, and where a recording switches language, what was said in the other one may come back translated instead of transcribed — or not come back at all. Either way nothing is marked as missing: the transcript will look complete.

Philippine English is marked “preview” in the language list: offered, but without a quality commitment yet, so check its transcript more closely before you use it.