AI Speech to Text
Upload or record, get a transcript with timestamps and speaker labels, and click any line to hear exactly where it was said.
MP3, WAV, M4A or OGG · up to 30 minutes
Upload a recording you have the rights to transcribe. The transcript is yours; the audio is not kept after processing.
Tap any line to hear it. The line under the playhead lights up as the audio plays. This is what your transcript will look like.
01—How to
How to Convert Speech to Text in 3 Steps
The whole thing runs in the browser: no dictation software, no editor plug-in, no copying between apps. Upload, wait a moment, read. The transcript is not shown under the button; it opens on its own page, with the player at the top and the export buttons where you expect them.
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Upload or record
Drop in an MP3, WAV, M4A or OGG up to thirty minutes long, or press Record and speak. The length shows before anything uploads, along with the cost or a note that today's transcription is free.
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Transcribe
Press Transcribe. The speech to text engine listens once, writes every word with its timing, and works out who is speaking. A ten-minute recording usually comes back in under a minute.
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Read, click, export
The transcript opens on its own page with the player on top. Click any line to hear it, search for a phrase, rename the speakers, then download plain text, timestamped text, SRT or VTT.
What you need before you start
A recording of people talking and an account. Nothing else. The free allowance covers three transcriptions a day of up to ten minutes each, which is most interviews, memos and lecture segments.
02—The basics
What Is Speech to Text?
Speech to text is the conversion of spoken audio into written words by software. Modern speech to text listens to a whole recording, writes each word with the moment it was said, and can tell one speaker from another, so the result is a timed transcript rather than a wall of text.
Speech to text vs. voice typing
Voice typing on a phone or in a document is live: you speak, it types, and it never sees the sentence as a whole. A transcription of a recording sees everything at once, so it can punctuate properly, resolve a word from the words around it, and attach a timestamp to each line. That is also why it can tell speakers apart: it hears the whole conversation before it labels any of it.
Where the words come from
The engine works on what the microphone captured. Background music, wind and room echo cost accuracy. If the recording is rough, run it through the voice isolator first and transcribe the clean version.
Which tool do you need?
If you want to type by talking, use the voice typing built into your phone or word processor. If you have a recording and want the words out of it, with timing and speakers, this page is the right tool.
03—Click any line
Click Any Line to Hear It
Most transcription tools hand you a block of text and leave you to scrub through the audio to check a word. Here the transcript and the player are one thing, on one page, and every line knows the second it belongs to.
The transcript follows the audio
As the recording plays, the line being spoken lights up and the list keeps it in view. Click a different line and playback jumps there. A wrong-sounding word is a two-second check, not a hunt.
Search, then listen
Type a phrase and the transcript filters down to the lines that contain it, with the match highlighted. Click one and you are listening to that exact moment.
Timestamps you can trust
Each line carries the second it starts, taken from the audio itself rather than estimated from reading speed, so a timestamp you quote in show notes lands on the right moment.
Speakers, named by you
Two people become Speaker 1 and Speaker 2. Rename them once and every line updates, in the transcript and in every export.
04—What you get
What You Get From Speech to Text
One transcription, four files, all built from the same timed segments.
Plain text
Paragraphs broken where the speaker paused or changed, with the filler words kept so the transcript still sounds like the person. Paste it into notes, a document or an email, or hand it straight to text to speech.
Timestamped text and subtitles
The same lines with their start times, or as SRT and VTT files that drop straight onto a video timeline.
Speaker labels
Interviews and calls come back with each turn attributed. Rename Speaker 1 to the person's name and the labels follow.
Where the transcript lives
Every transcription is kept in your history with its audio for thirty days, so you can reopen the page, play it again, and export it later. The uploaded file is not kept anywhere else, and a transcript you delete is gone from the history and from storage.
05—Use cases
What People Transcribe
Transcription earns its place wherever something was said once and needs to be read many times. These are the six jobs it does most, and what the timestamps and speaker labels add to each.
Podcast episodes
Pull quotes for show notes, find the moment a topic came up, and publish a transcript for the people who read instead of listen.
Interviews and calls
Get every answer in writing with the speaker attached, then jump back to the recording when a quote needs checking.
Lectures and courses
Turn a recorded lesson into notes with timestamps, so a student can go back to the exact minute a concept was explained.
Meetings
A transcript with speakers is a record of who committed to what. Search for a name or a deadline instead of replaying an hour.
Subtitles
Export SRT or VTT and your video is captioned without typing a word against the clock.
A script for your own voice
A transcript is a script. Send it to text to speech, or clone your voice and have the words read back in it, re-recorded without a microphone.
What it can't do
It will not transcribe words that were never audible, it does not translate, and it is not a live captioning service. It works on recordings you already have, up to thirty minutes at a time, and a longer recording is best split at a natural break and transcribed in two parts.
06—Comparison
Speech to Text vs. Voice Typing vs. Meeting Assistants
Three kinds of product answer to the words speech to text. They solve different problems.
| Speech to text (this tool) | Voice typing | Meeting assistant | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Input | A recording you have | Your live voice | A live call it joins |
| Timestamps | |||
| Speaker labels | |||
| Click a line to hear it | Sometimes | ||
| Works on any file | |||
| Read it back in your voice |
If you want to type by talking, use voice typing. If you want a bot in your meetings, use an assistant. If you have a recording and want the words out of it, with the audio one click away, use this page.
07—Best practice
Getting an Accurate Transcript
The engine does the work, but what you feed it decides how many words you have to fix afterwards. Three habits cover most of the difference between a transcript you correct for ten minutes and one you correct for ten seconds.
The single biggest improvement
Noise. A recording with traffic, music or a fan behind it loses words that a clean one keeps. Run rough audio through the voice isolator first; it takes about a minute and the transcript is visibly cleaner.
One microphone, close
A phone on the table between four people picks up the room, not the people. Closer is better than louder, and one microphone per speaker is better than one good microphone in the middle.
Let speakers finish
Overlapping talk is the hardest case for any transcription engine. Recordings where people take turns come back clean; a heated panel discussion will need a second look wherever two voices land on the same second.
Expect to fix names
Unusual names and product terms are where transcripts slip. Search for them afterwards and correct once in your document.
08—Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
Is the speech to text tool free?
Every signed-in account gets three free transcriptions a day of up to ten minutes each, with all export formats. Paid plans lift the daily limit, allow files up to thirty minutes, and charge by the minute in credits. See pricing for the rate.
Do I need an account?
Yes. Transcripts are kept in your history with their audio so you can come back to them, and the free allowance is counted per account.
Which languages does it support?
Recordings in most widely spoken languages are transcribed in their own language. The language is detected automatically; you do not need to set it.
Does it label speakers?
Yes. Each turn is attributed to a speaker, and you can rename Speaker 1 and Speaker 2 to real names. On a single-voice recording the labels are simply not shown.
What formats and length are supported?
MP3, WAV, M4A and OGG, up to 50 MB and thirty minutes per file. Exports are plain text, timestamped text, SRT and VTT.
How accurate is it?
On a clear recording of one or two people, close to what a careful listener would write down. Accuracy drops with background noise, distant microphones, and people talking over each other. Cleaning the audio first helps more than anything else, and searching the transcript for names afterwards catches most of what remains.
Can I transcribe a video?
Not directly yet. Export the audio track from the video as MP3 or WAV, upload that, and use the SRT export to caption the video.
Is this the same as voice to text on my phone?
No. Voice to text on a phone types while you speak and only works live. This transcribes a recording you already have, with timestamps and speaker labels, and lets you click any line to hear it.
09—Read it back
The Transcript Is a Script
Once the words are on the page, the rest of AnyVoice can say them again.