Transcribe your speech to text live from your microphone, using browser speech recognition.
Transcribe speech to text using the Web Speech API — speak into your microphone and the text appears as you talk. Free, no account, and supports multiple languages.
Upload your file using the tool above.
Adjust any settings to your preference.
Click the process button and wait for results.
Download your output using the download button.
No — this listens through your microphone in real time rather than accepting an upload. Playing a recording aloud near the mic works after a fashion, but quality suffers noticeably. For recorded interviews and meetings, a dedicated transcription service handles the job far better.
A decent microphone matters more than anything else — a headset beats a laptop’s built-in mic considerably. Beyond that, speak at a normal pace in a quiet room and enunciate punctuation-heavy phrases clearly. Background noise and crosstalk are what wreck accuracy, not accent.
Recognition uses a browser API with uneven support — Chrome and Edge are the most reliable, while other browsers may offer it partially or not at all. If the microphone button does nothing, that is usually why, and switching browser is the quickest fix.
Yes, Speech to Text is completely free. No signup, no account, and no watermark on outputs. A Pro tier is available for larger file sizes and an ad-free experience.
Speech to Text sends nothing to our servers — it uses the speech recognition built into your browser, and this tool stores nothing. That recognition usually does not happen on your device, though: Chrome sends your audio to Google’s speech service, Edge to Microsoft’s, and Safari may use Apple’s, each under that company’s own privacy policy. It also needs an internet connection. For anything confidential, type it instead.
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