Speech to text & voice to text online — free and private
Press Record and speak. When you stop, the speech is transcribed right here — punctuation included — ready to copy into an email, a document or a chat.
Speak, and get it as text
Record from your microphone — or drop an audio or video file
Transcribed in your browser. The file never leaves your device.
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Click any line to play it.
How it works
- Drop an audio or video file into the box above, or choose one from your device.
- The speech model loads in your browser and the text appears as it is transcribed. The file is never uploaded.
- Copy the transcript, or download it as TXT or as SRT subtitles.
Languages it understands
It detects the spoken language by itself. These are the ones it handles best — pick one before you start if detection guesses wrong.
- Arabic العربية
- Chinese 中文
- Czech Čeština
- Danish Dansk
- Dutch Nederlands
- English
- Finnish Suomi
- French Français
- German Deutsch
- Greek Ελληνικά
- Hebrew עברית
- Hindi हिन्दी
- Hungarian Magyar
- Indonesian Indonesia
- Italian Italiano
- Japanese 日本語
- Korean 한국어
- Norwegian Norsk
- Polish Polski
- Portuguese Português
- Romanian Română
- Russian Русский
- Spanish Español
- Swedish Svenska
- Thai ไทย
- Turkish Türkçe
- Ukrainian Українська
- Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
See also: Translate MP3 to text
What this device can do
- Checking your browser…
- This device reports little memory. Close other tabs before a long file.
FAQ
- Is it live, word by word?
- No — it transcribes when you stop recording, which lets the model see whole sentences and punctuate them properly. A one-minute dictation is usually ready in seconds.
- Which microphone does it use?
- Your browser’s default. Choose another in the browser’s site settings (the icon in the address bar) and press Record again.
- Do I need to say “comma” and “full stop”?
- No. Punctuation is added from how you speak, the way a listener would.