Transcribe audio to text
Turn recordings and videos into text you can copy, edit and save: interviews, voice notes, lectures, meetings and podcasts.
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Clipabay uses Whisper, a speech recognition model that understands about 100 languages and handles accents, background noise and fast talkers well. The text is split into readable paragraphs, with times if you want them.
Choose the most accurate option (Whisper large on our server, free every day), or the private option that runs entirely on your device. Save the result as text, or as SRT subtitles for a video.
What you get
- Whisper AI, around 100 languages
- Detects the language by itself
- Paragraphs, with times if you want them
- Copy, save .txt or .srt subtitles
- MP3, WAV, M4A, MP4, MOV, WebM and more
- A private on-device option
How to transcribe audio to text
- Open the transcriber and pick the language (or let it detect it).
- Choose your audio or video file.
- Wait while it listens.
- Copy the text, or save it as .txt or .srt.
Tip: Clear recordings give the best text. If yours is noisy, run Remove background noise first.
Questions
Is my recording uploaded?
With “Most accurate”, the sound is sent to our server to be read and is not kept. Choose “Private, on this device” and nothing leaves your computer.
How long can the recording be?
Hours. Long recordings are split at quiet moments and read piece by piece.
Which languages work?
English, Dutch, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Polish, Turkish, Russian, Arabic, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Chinese and many more.
Is it really free?
Yes. There is a generous free daily amount for the cloud option, and the on-device option has no limit at all.