// Audio to Text

Convert audio to text, then export the whole pack.

Transcribe audio to text free: convert MP3, M4A, WAV, and voice recordings to text with timestamps. Clean audio, transcribe, summarize, and export TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT, and agent JSON.

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vocce · transcribe● live
Click or drag to upload
Audio or video file · ≤ 50MB
4 AI engines · 20+ formats · free tier · no signup · failed jobs never billed
// What you get

One upload. Every file the next step needs.

The same reliable Vocce pipeline, focused on this job. Start free, then plans from $9.90/mo when you need more.

Timestamped transcript
TXT / DOCX
SRT / VTT
Summary + action items
Agent JSON
// How it works

How to turn audio into text

01
Drop in the audio MP3, M4A, WAV, a phone voice memo, a 3-hour board meeting — drag it in or paste a link.
02
It cleans, then listens Vocce levels the volume and clears noise first, then transcribes. That cleanup is where the accuracy actually comes from.
03
Take the text and go Timestamped transcript, SRT/VTT, a short summary, and agent JSON — copy what you need or download the lot.

One hour of talking is around 9,000 words on the page. Typing that out by hand is most of a workday, and scrubbing back through the recording to find a single quote is its own kind of pain. Turning audio to text gets you something you can read, search, and paste — usually in a couple of minutes.

The recordings people actually have are rarely clean: a phone left on the table, two voices talking over each other, a lecturer halfway across a room. Vocce runs every file through the same steps — normalize the loudness, knock down the noise, then transcribe with word-level timestamps — so you're not tweaking settings before anything happens.

What comes back is plain text for your notes, SRT or VTT if the source was video, a summary with the decisions and to-dos pulled out, and a JSON version for whatever runs next. The first three minutes of any file are free to check the quality, and a job that fails doesn't cost you anything.

// features

Built to survive real files.

Cleaned before it's read

Loudness leveling and noise reduction run ahead of transcription, so a quiet speaker or a humming AC doesn't come back as a blank gap.

Timestamps that don't drift

Every line is pinned to the audio. Long files are split, transcribed in parallel, and stitched back so a four-hour recording stays in sync at the seams.

Over 100 languages

English, Mandarin, Spanish, Hindi, Arabic and dozens more — detected on its own, or set the language yourself if you'd rather not leave it to chance.

Exports you can use

TXT, Markdown, DOCX, SRT, VTT, and a clean JSON schema for scripts and agents — not a read-only box you have to copy out of.

Flags, not guesses

Words the model isn't sure about get marked instead of quietly invented, so you know which ten seconds are worth a second listen.

Same job, any surface

Run it in the browser, or fire the exact same request from the REST API, the CLI, or an MCP server wired into your agent.

// who uses audio to text

Built for real workflows.

Journalists & podcasters

Turn interviews and episodes into searchable, quotable transcripts with timestamps — ready for articles, show notes, and clips.

Students & researchers

Convert lectures, seminars, and field recordings to text you can skim, annotate, and cite instead of re-listening for hours.

Teams & builders

Pipe call recordings into one call and get clean text plus agent-ready JSON your tools can act on automatically.

// faq

Audio to Text, answered.

How do I convert audio to text? +

Drop an MP3, M4A, WAV, or any common audio file into the tool above. Vocce cleans the audio, runs speech recognition, and hands back a timestamped transcript with TXT, DOCX, SRT, and JSON exports. The first three minutes are free, no card needed.

Which audio formats can I transcribe? +

MP3, M4A, WAV, AAC, FLAC, OGG and WMA work directly — and video files like MP4 or MOV are fine too, since Vocce pulls out and normalizes the audio track for you.

How accurate is it? +

Audio is cleaned and loudness-normalized before a word is transcribed, which is where most of the accuracy is won. Every job ships a quality report, and shaky words are flagged rather than guessed.

Can it handle accents and background noise? +

Yes — that's what the cleanup pass is for. Phone recordings, accented speech, and noisy rooms go in as-is; you don't pre-process anything.

Will it label who said what? +

Speaker separation is on the way for multi-person recordings. Today every line carries a timestamp, so following the back-and-forth in a two-person interview is still easy.

Can I transcribe a multi-hour recording? +

Yes. Long files are chunked, transcribed in parallel, and stitched back with continuous timestamps — a four-hour recording doesn't drift at the seams.

Is my audio kept private? +

Files are processed for your job and not used to train anything. You export what you need and the working copies age out — nothing gets published anywhere.

Is there a free version? +

Every file gets a free three-minute preview with a quality report. Beyond that the free tier covers 30 minutes a month, and paid plans start at $9.90/mo — failed jobs are never billed.