Recording to text
Recording to text, readable in minutes.
Convert any recording to text in minutes — upload audio or video and get clean, accurate text back, with every word linked to the second it was spoken. Check a quote, fix a name, export it.
- Every word timestamped
- Speakers told apart
- Private to you, always
field-interview.m4a
English · 2 speakers
Click any word to jump to that moment.
- to convert a 1-hour recording
- ~5 minto convert a 1-hour recording
- languages recognised
- 40+languages recognised
- audio & video formats
- 12audio & video formats
- once per verified account
- 400 creditsonce per verified account
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How it works
Recording to text in three steps.
Upload your recording
Drop in an MP3, WAV, M4A, MP4, or MOV. Large files resume on their own if your connection drops.
Watch the text arrive
Your recording becomes text with timestamps and speaker names. Click a word to hear it, and correct names or terms while the audio plays.
Take the text with you
Copy it, or download Word, PDF, text, or subtitles. Translate it, or let AI summarise it — every line still tied to the recording.
What people use it for
What converting a recording to text is actually for.
Converting a recording to text is rarely the goal by itself — it is what the text lets you do next. These are the jobs people bring here most often.
- Interviews and quotes
- Get an interview as text and quote it accurately. Search for the phrase you half-remember, click it, and hear the answer again before you put it in print.
- Meetings and calls
- Turn a meeting recording into text everyone can read, then pull out what was decided and who agreed to what — without making someone take notes instead of taking part.
- Lectures and study
- Convert a lecture or seminar recording to text you can actually study from — skim it, search it, and jump straight back to the parts that did not land the first time.
- Podcasts and video
- Publish your episode as text for readers and search engines, and reuse it for show notes, captions, and social posts from a single recording.
- Research and fieldwork
- Convert field recordings to text and work through them properly — code the text, count how often something comes up, and keep a link back to the audio for every finding.
- Accessibility
- Make a recording accessible with accurate captions, and give anyone who would rather read than listen a full text version of the same thing.
After the recording becomes text
One recording, four ways to use the text.
Getting the words out is the start. Everything below works on the same text, so you never re-upload the recording or lose your place in it.
- 01 / Convert
Recording to text you can check
Accurate text with a timestamp on every word and speakers told apart — click any word to hear that exact moment in the recording.
- 02 / Caption
Subtitles from the same text
Turn the text into SRT or WebVTT subtitles, with warnings for lines that run too long or flash by too fast to read.
- 03 / Summarize
The short version, with sources
Get a summary, chapters, and action items — each one linked to the moment in the recording it came from, so you can verify it.
- 04 / Translate
The same recording, another language
Translate the text into another language and read the original and the translation side by side, still in sync with the audio.
Free tools
Small jobs, sorted in your browser.
Convert subtitles, fix their timing, extract audio, or count words in multiple languages. Eight free tools, no sign-up, and your files stay on your device.
Languages
Recording to text in the language it was spoken in.
Convert recordings to text in dozens of languages, including these. The language is detected automatically in most cases — for a noisy or mixed-language recording, you can set it yourself and get a better result.
- en
- EnglishEnglish
- zh
- Chinese中文
- es
- SpanishEspañol
- ar
- Arabicالعربية
- hi
- Hindiहिन्दी
- ja
- Japanese日本語
Pricing
Recording to text, free to start.
Free covers everyday recordings at no cost. Pro is for longer files, converting many recordings to text at once, the highest-accuracy mode, and skipping the queue when you are in a hurry.
- No minimums
- Charged by the second you actually process, never rounded up to the hour.
- One balance
- Transcription, AI notes and translation all draw from the same credits.
- No surprise bills
- Run low and processing pauses for you — it never quietly charges the card.
Every plan starts on Free — 400 credits, no card.
Start free — no cardPro
Most popularWhen everyday recordings turn into a weekly habit.
$15monthly
- 1,500 credits a month — about 5.5 hours of audio
- Files up to 10 hours, 50 at a time
- Precision accuracy and no processing queue
Cancel in one click. Yearly saves 20%.
Yearly: $144.00
Common questions
What people ask about recording to text.
What kind of recording can I convert to text?
Common audio and video files all work: MP3, WAV, M4A, AAC, FLAC, OGG for audio, and MP4, MOV, MKV, WEBM, AVI for video. If your recording plays on your computer, it will almost certainly convert to text here. You do not need to convert the file yourself first.
How long does it take?
Most recordings are done in a fraction of their length — a one-hour recording usually becomes text in a few minutes. Short files come back in seconds. Long ones keep processing in the background, so you can close the tab and find the text waiting for you.
How accurate is the text?
Very accurate on clear recordings, and noticeably less so on noisy ones, heavy crosstalk, or thick background music — no honest tool is different. That is why every word links to its moment in the audio: instead of trusting the text blindly, you can click a word and hear exactly what was said.
Can it tell speakers apart?
Yes. Recordings with several people are separated into speakers, so the text reads as a conversation rather than one long block. You can rename "Speaker 1" to a real name once, and it updates everywhere in the text.
Is my recording private?
Your recording is private to you from the moment it is uploaded — never public, never shared, never used to train anything. Saved recordings are yours to export or delete whenever you want.
Is there a free trial?
Yes — verified accounts receive 400 one-time credits, shared across transcription, AI and translation. No card required; credits do not refresh each day.
Try it on your own recording.
Create and verify your account for 400 one-time welcome credits. Use them for transcription, AI and translation. No card required.
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