Turn a recording into text with on-device speech recognition. The audio never leaves your browser.
Audio to Text turns a spoken recording into written words using the speech recognition already built into your browser. The problem it solves is tedious. You have a voice memo, an interview, a lecture, or a meeting clip, and typing it out by hand costs far more time than the recording itself lasts. Feeding it through this tool gives you a rough draft of the words in a fraction of that time, which you can then tidy up.
To use it, allow the tool to listen to your recording or play the audio through your device while it transcribes. Speak clearly or make sure the source is reasonably clean, then watch the text fill in as the words are recognized. When it finishes, you can copy the transcript out and paste it into a document, an email, or your notes. There is no queue and no export step waiting on a server.
The accuracy depends heavily on the recording. Clear speech, one person at a time, and little background noise give the best results, while crosstalk, heavy accents the engine has not seen, music, or a phone left across the room will produce mistakes. Treat the output as a first pass rather than a finished transcript. Reading it back once and fixing the obvious slips is almost always faster than typing everything yourself.
Compared with uploading your file to a paid transcription service, this keeps the whole job on your machine and costs nothing, which matters when the audio is private or when you only need the gist. A dedicated cloud service will usually handle long files, multiple speakers, and timestamps better, so reach for one of those when you need a polished, speaker-labeled transcript for publication.
People use it to get quick notes from a voice memo, to pull quotes out of a recorded interview, to caption a short clip, or to capture what was said in a class or a call they could not type through. Students, journalists, and anyone who thinks out loud into their phone get the most out of it.
Everything runs in your browser with on-device speech recognition, so the audio never leaves your machine and nothing is uploaded. There is no sign-up and no fee. The main limit is your own device, since very long recordings lean on memory and on how well your browser's recognition holds up over time, so shorter clips tend to work most reliably.
Browser speech recognition can time out or drop after a stretch of silence or a long run, which cuts the text off early. Splitting a long recording into shorter sections and running them one at a time is the most reliable fix.
It adds some, but not reliably, so you will often get long runs without full stops or commas. Plan to read through afterward and drop in punctuation and paragraph breaks yourself.
No. The tool writes down the words it hears as one continuous stream and does not label who said what. For an interview you will need to mark the speaker changes by hand.
It uses your browser's built-in recognition, so the available languages depend on your browser and system settings rather than the tool. English is supported widely, and other languages work where your browser supports them.
Speech recognition guesses from sound, so names, jargon, homophones, and unclear audio get misheard. A noisy background or overlapping voices makes this worse, which is why a clean recording matters so much.
The recognition happens on your device and the audio is not uploaded to us. Nothing about the recording is stored on a server, so private recordings stay private.
You can play the saved audio through your device so the tool hears it, then copy the result. For the cleanest capture, keep the playback volume steady and cut out other sounds while it listens.
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