A recording you cannot read is a recording you will not use
Interviews, client calls, site visits, lectures, the voice memo you left yourself in the car: all of it is easy to capture and painful to go back to. Finding one sentence in a 50 minute file means scrubbing through it. Text does not have that problem. It can be searched, quoted, pasted into a report and read in a fraction of the time the audio takes to play.
This tool takes one audio file and returns the speech in it as plain text. The transcript is shown on the page so you can read and copy it straight away, and it downloads as a .txt file in UTF-8 named after your recording, so interview.mp3 becomes interview.txt.
The limits, stated plainly
- Formats. MP3, M4A, WAV and OGG. One file per run.
- Size. 100 MB. Uncompressed WAV reaches that in minutes, compressed audio in hours.
- Length. Three hours of audio per file.
- Output. Plain text only. No timestamps, no speaker names, no subtitle files.
The price is ten credits per started minute, with a floor of 100 credits so that very short clips still cover the cost of running the model. Because it is billed per started minute, a file of 12 minutes and 10 seconds counts as 13 minutes and costs 130 credits. You see that number, and your balance, before anything is charged. The credit rates for every paid tool are listed on the pricing page.
What to do with the transcript
Most people paste it straight into their notes, minutes or CRM. It is also the fastest way to make a recording searchable: one Ctrl+F through the .txt beats twenty minutes of scrubbing. If the material eventually lands in a document, the rest of the site picks it up from there. AI PDF Summarizer condenses a long file into a brief, Chat with PDF answers questions about it, and Analyze Contract reads the terms if the conversation was about an agreement. Those tools all read PDFs, so save the text into a document first.
Working the other way round, with text that is already inside a file rather than inside a recording, use PDF to Text for a normal PDF or OCR PDF for a scan. And if your recordings are MP3, which most of them are, MP3 to Text is the same tool with the MP3 specifics spelled out: bitrate, long files and what to do with a video soundtrack.