Free Audio to Text Conversion
Turn any recording into text with word-level timestamps, in whichever of 30 languages it was spoken. Everything runs inside your browser tab, so your audio never leaves your device. No signup, no install, completely free.
Features
What the Free Tool Does
30 Languages
Speech in any of 30 languages is transcribed in that same language. Leave it on auto-detect and the model works out which one it is hearing.
Word-Level Timestamps
Click any word in the transcript to jump the player straight to that moment, or export the timings as an SRT file for subtitles.
SRT and JSON Export
Save the transcript as an SRT subtitle file ready to drop into a video editor, or as JSON with the full timing data for your own scripts.
Pick a File or Record
Bring an existing audio file or record straight from your microphone in the tool. Both paths land in the same transcript view.
Get Started
How It Works
Open the free tool
Go to the audio to text tool in your browser. It opens on the transcription tab with no download or signup required.
Add your audio
Choose an audio file or hit record and speak into your mic. Tell it which language the audio is in, or leave it on auto-detect and let the model work it out.
Transcribe and export
Hit transcribe. The model downloads on first use, then runs locally. When it finishes, copy the text, export an SRT subtitle file, or export JSON with word-level timings.
Use Cases
What People Use It For
Subtitles and Captions
Turn a video's audio track into an SRT file with accurate word timings, then load it into your editor or upload it alongside the video.
Interviews and Meetings
Get a written record of a call or interview you can search, quote, and share, without handing the recording to a third-party service.
Podcasts and Videos
Produce show notes, blog versions, and searchable archives from episodes you already published.
Notes and Voice Memos
Record a thought straight into the tool and get clean text back. Handy for drafting while walking or driving.
Getting the Most Out of It
Tips for Better Transcripts
Set the language when you know it
Auto-detect is convenient, but naming the language the audio is in avoids the occasional wrong guess on short clips or recordings that open with music or silence.
Clean audio beats a clean-up pass
Background noise, crosstalk, and heavy room echo cost more accuracy than anything else. A close mic and a quiet room make a bigger difference than any setting in the tool.
Split very long recordings
The tool handles long files, but everything is held in your browser's memory. For hour-long recordings, splitting into shorter sections keeps things fast and avoids memory pressure on modest machines.
Use Chrome or Edge for speed
Chromium browsers support WebGPU, which runs the model noticeably faster. Firefox and Safari still work, they just fall back to the slower WebAssembly path.
Voice Creator Pro
Need more? Go further with Voice Creator Pro.
Voice Creator Pro handles transcription across 600+ languages, turns transcripts into styled subtitles you can burn into video, and adds voice cloning, voice design, and a commercial use license. Try it free in your browser or download the desktop app.
600+ Languages
Transcription and speech generation across a far wider language range than the browser model
Long Recordings
Process hour-long files without holding everything in a browser tab's memory
Local REST API
The desktop app exposes a local API that returns timestamped JSON for your own tools
Offline on Desktop
The desktop app transcribes with no internet connection at all, on your own hardware
Styled Subtitles
Take a transcript straight into subtitle styling, positioning, and burn-in instead of hand-editing an SRT
Commercial License
Full rights to use transcripts and generated audio in commercial projects
FAQ
Common Questions
Yes. There is no account, no card, and no cap on how many files you can transcribe. The speech recognition model runs on your own device, so there are no server costs to pass on to you.
No. The transcription happens inside your browser tab. Your audio file is decoded and processed locally and is never sent to us or anyone else. The only thing downloaded is the model itself, once, on first use.
Any audio format your browser can decode, which covers MP3, WAV, M4A, FLAC, OGG, and WEBM. You can also record directly from your microphone instead of choosing a file.
30 languages for the spoken audio, including English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Chinese, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Arabic, Turkish, Vietnamese, Thai, and Indonesian. There is also an auto-detect option if you do not want to pick one. The transcript always comes back in the language that was spoken.
No. This tool transcribes speech in the language it was spoken, so German audio produces German text. It recognizes 30 languages, but it does not translate between them. If you need the words in a different language, Voice Creator Pro video dubbing translates the speech and regenerates it in the target language, available on a paid Cloud plan or the desktop app.
Yes. Every transcript comes with word-level timestamps and exports as an SRT subtitle file that loads directly into video editors and upload forms. JSON export gives you the raw timing data if you are building something custom. If you want captions styled and burned onto the video itself, rather than a sidecar file, the Voice Creator Pro subtitle generator picks up where this leaves off.
Accuracy depends mostly on your audio. Clear speech recorded close to the mic in a quiet room transcribes very well, while heavy background noise, overlapping speakers, or thick room echo will cost you accuracy. The browser tool uses Whisper base, a smaller model chosen so it can run on any laptop. For harder audio, Voice Creator Pro runs larger transcription models across 600+ languages.
There is no enforced limit, but the practical ceiling is your browser's memory. Recordings up to about 10 minutes are comfortable on a typical laptop. Past that, decoding the audio starts to take real memory and transcription time grows with length, so a lecture or a full podcast episode is better handled by the Voice Creator Pro desktop app, which processes it locally with GPU acceleration.
No. The model is around 75 MB and runs on ordinary laptops without a dedicated GPU. Chrome and Edge use WebGPU acceleration where available, which makes it faster, and Firefox and Safari fall back to WebAssembly.