Audio to text converter | Transcribe Audio Without Uploading It

Convert audio and video to text right in your browser. Your file never leaves your device, so there is nothing to upload and no signup. Supports 90+ languages and exports TXT, SRT and VTT.


Pick your audio or video file

MP3, WAV, M4A, OGG, FLAC, WEBM, MP4, MOV and more

Up to 20 MB and 15 minutes per file.

100% free No signup File deleted right after
Naming the language is more reliable than letting it be detected, especially on short or noisy clips.

What happens to your file

Your file is sent to our server, transcribed there, and deleted as soon as the transcript is ready. It is not archived, not backed up and never looked at by a person. We do not ask for an account or an email address, so nothing links a recording to you. The transcript itself is only rendered on the page you get back, so once you close that page it is gone from our side too.

  • The upload is deleted the moment the transcript is produced.
  • No account, no email address, no tracking of what you transcribed.
  • Transcription runs on our own machine, so your audio is never passed to a third party service.

How to convert audio to text

  1. Choose your audio or video file.
  2. Pick the spoken language if you know it, or leave it on automatic.
  3. Press Transcribe and wait. Short clips come back in seconds, a full 15 minutes takes about a minute.
  4. Copy the text, or download it as TXT, SRT or VTT subtitles.

Supported formats

Both audio and video files work. These are the common ones.

Kind Formats
Audio MP3, WAV, M4A, AAC, OGG, OPUS, FLAC, WMA, WEBM
Video MP4, MOV, WEBM, MKV, AVI, 3GP (the audio track is used)
Export TXT plain text, SRT subtitles, VTT web captions

Short answer

To convert audio to text free, choose your MP3, WAV, M4A or MP4 file above, pick the spoken language and press Transcribe. The transcript comes back in seconds for a short clip and can be downloaded as TXT, SRT or VTT. No account is needed and your file is deleted as soon as the transcript is ready.

What is an audio to text converter?

An audio to text converter listens to a recording and writes down what was said. It is the same job a human transcriptionist does, except a speech recognition model does it in a fraction of the time. People use it for interviews, lectures, podcasts, voice memos, meeting recordings and video subtitles.

Limits and speed

Files can be up to 20 MB and 15 minutes long. A 15 minute recording takes roughly a minute to come back, and short voice notes come back in a few seconds. If you have a long interview, splitting it at natural pauses works better than trying to push one large file through.

How accurate is it?

Clear speech with little background noise transcribes very well. Accuracy drops with crosstalk, heavy accents, music underneath the voice and phone quality recordings. Numbers, names and technical terms are the usual things to check by hand. Treat the result as a strong first draft rather than a finished document.

Getting a better transcript

  • Tell the tool which language is spoken instead of leaving it on automatic.
  • Record as close to the speaker as you can. Microphone distance matters more than file format.
  • If the audio has music or noise under the voice, clean it up before transcribing.
  • Split long recordings at natural pauses so no sentence is cut in half.
  • A quiet room beats an expensive microphone. Fix the room first.

Frequently asked questions

Yes, with no account, no trial and no watermark on the output. We run the speech model on our own server rather than paying a third party per minute, which is what makes it possible to offer it without a charge or a sign up wall.

It is uploaded, transcribed and then deleted straight away. It is not archived, not backed up and no person reads it. Because there is no account, nothing connects a recording to you in the first place. The transcript is only rendered on the page you get back, so closing that page is the end of it.

Twenty megabytes and fifteen minutes per file. There is also a short cooldown if you send several files in a row, which keeps the tool responsive for everyone. For a longer recording, split it into parts and transcribe them one after another.

Around 90, including English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Turkish, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian and Catalan. Choosing the language yourself gives a better result than automatic detection, especially on short clips.

Yes. Upload an MP4, MOV, WEBM or similar file and the audio track is read from it. The video itself is ignored, so there is no need to extract the audio first.

Download the SRT or VTT file. Both contain the same transcript split into timed lines, which is what video editors and players expect. SRT suits most editing software and VTT is the format used by web video.

A one minute voice note comes back in a few seconds and a full fifteen minutes takes roughly a minute. The wait is mostly the transcription itself, so a faster connection helps with the upload but not with the processing.

Speech recognition struggles with overlapping voices, strong accents, background music and low quality phone recordings. Setting the spoken language instead of leaving detection on automatic usually helps the most. Proper names and numbers are worth checking by hand whatever the audio quality.

Short answer

To convert audio to text free, choose your MP3, WAV, M4A or MP4 file above, pick the spoken language and press Transcribe. The transcript comes back in seconds for a short clip and can be downloaded as TXT, SRT or VTT. No account is needed and your file is deleted as soon as the transcript is ready.

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