Best Free AI Speech to Text
Upload a recording and get an accurate, editable transcript right here — free.
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How it works
- Add your recording. Upload the audio or video file you want transcribed (up to 100 MB).
- Transcribe it. Press Transcribe and our GPU turns the speech into written text.
- Read the transcript. The transcript appears right here, ready to read, search and copy.
About this tool
Upload a recording — an interview, a meeting, a lecture, a voice note, even a video — and this tool transcribes the speech on our own GPU and shows the text back to you right here, ready to read, search and edit. It earns its keep anywhere scanning and searching text beats scrubbing back and forth through audio. Clean recordings with one person speaking at a time come back the most accurately; overlapping voices and heavy background noise are harder, as they are for any transcriber. Files go up to 100 MB. For the reverse direction — written text turned into a spoken voice — see the AI text-to-speech tool alongside this one.
What people use it for
- Turn an interview or meeting recording into a transcript
- Write up a voice memo without typing it out
- Get searchable notes from a lecture or talk
- Pull the spoken words out of a video as text
Frequently asked questions
Audio clarity does most of the work: a close, clean mic with one speaker at a time gives near-flawless text, while background noise, distant recording, crosstalk and strong accents all introduce mistakes — the same limits any transcription system faces.
Distinguishing speakers reliably is hard, and recordings where people talk over one another are where errors cluster. Recording each voice clearly, or pausing between turns, gives the cleanest result; the transcript itself comes back as continuous text you can split by speaker yourself.
Common audio and video formats all work — the audio track is what gets transcribed, so a video file is fine. Interviews, meetings, lectures, podcasts and voice notes are all fair game.
It recognises many spoken languages automatically, so you usually do not have to set one. Accuracy is strongest on widely spoken languages and on clear, well-recorded speech.
Yes — the AI text-to-speech tool in this section turns written text into a natural spoken voice. It is the direct counterpart to this transcriber.
It is transcribed on our own server, held only in memory while it runs, and discarded as soon as the transcript comes back — never written to disk or handed to a third party. Files go up to 100 MB.
Yes — AI Speech to Text is completely free, with no watermark on the output and no credit card required.
Yes. It runs in your browser, so AI Speech to Text works on phones and tablets as well as desktop — there is no app to install.
No. AI Speech to Text works with no signup at all; an optional free account only exists to unlock higher usage limits.
Usually just a few seconds for a typical file — AI Speech to Text starts working the moment you give it your input.