Audio to Text — AI Transcription
Convert audio to accurate, timestamped text with AI in 70+ languages. Perfect for show notes, subtitles, search, and accessibility.
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How it works
Upload your audio
Interviews, podcasts, lectures, meetings, voice notes.
AI transcribes it
Auto-detects the language and produces accurate, timestamped text.
Edit, search, or export
Copy text, jump to any word, or keep editing by chatting.
Why use it
High accuracy
Modern AI speech recognition, even with accents and noise.
Word timestamps
Click to jump; cut audio by editing the text.
Subtitle-ready
A clean base for captions and SRT.
70+ languages
Auto-detection across most major languages.
Private
Runs in our own Google Cloud.
Edit by chatting
Cut filler words or sections right after transcribing.
Made for
Why convert audio to text?
Search engines can’t read audio — transcribing it makes the content searchable, accessible, and reusable as notes, articles, or subtitles.
Transcripts here are timestamped at the word level, so you can jump to any moment and, in the AI editor, cut audio simply by deleting words from the text.
How audio-to-text transcription works
Upload a audio and the AI auto-detects the spoken language, segments the recording on natural pauses, and transcribes each segment with word-level timestamps. You get clean, readable text where every word maps back to the exact moment it was spoken — short clips finish in seconds, long files in a few minutes.
It runs inside the Notevibes AI editor, so the transcript stays linked to the original recording and becomes the control surface for editing it.
What a transcript unlocks
Search engines can't read audio — a transcript makes the content searchable, accessible, and reusable. Publish it as show notes or a blog post, generate SRT subtitles from the timestamps, quote it in an article, or build a searchable archive of everything you've recorded.
Accuracy, languages, and audio quality
Transcription covers 70+ languages with automatic detection, and handles accents, multiple speakers, and background noise. Cleaner source audio transcribes more accurately, so a good mic helps — and if a file is noisy, running it through the background-noise remover first noticeably improves the result.
From transcript to a finished edit
Because the text and the audio are linked, you can edit the recording by editing the words: delete a sentence to cut that audio, strip filler words and pauses, or remove a section — all by editing text or describing the change. Every edit is saved as a version, so you can transcribe, clean up, and export without opening a waveform editor.
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Frequently asked
How accurate is it?
Modern AI speech recognition, accurate even with accents and some background noise.
Are there timestamps?
Yes — word-level, so you can jump to any moment and cut audio by editing text.
What formats are supported?
MP3, WAV, M4A, and FLAC audio, plus video files like MP4 and MOV.
Can I transcribe video too?
Yes — both audio and video are supported.
How many languages?
Over 70, with automatic language detection.
Is it free?
Short clips are free to preview; sign in for full-length files.