Transcribe an M4A recording to text: upload the voice memo as it is, get timecodes and named speakers, export TXT, SRT, VTT or CSV. Free $0, 3 files a day.
Upload the M4A and get the words as text: a line per segment with a timecode, the speakers named on request, TXT, SRT, VTT or CSV to export and DOCX on Pro. The file is up to 30 minutes, the free plan $0 with 3 files a day.
Open the voice memo app or the recorder and keep the original file. Renaming an extension changes nothing inside, and the audio inside is what gets transcribed.
Drop the file on the widget above.Rthe recording language is detected automatically.
Every line has the start time and the end time. Correct a name in the app and export plain text, Markdown, SRT, VTT or CSV on any plan, and DOCX on the Pro plan.
Plain text for an email, a note or a chat
Subtitles for video editors and platforms
Subtitles for a browser and a website
A table: time, speaker, text
A Word document with speakers and times
Text with headings for notes
| What | Value |
|---|---|
| The container | MPEG-4, most commonly carrying the .m4a extension |
| The codec | AAC, a lossy compression standard developed by Dolby, AT&T, Fraunhofer and Sony |
| The purpose | designed as the successor to MP3, generally higher sound quality at the same bit rate |
| The file | audio and video are both accepted: mp3, wav, m4a, mp4, webm, ogg, flac, aac, wma, mov |
The voice memo on an iPhone is an M4A file, and so is a good deal of audio that travels between phones, laptops and messengers. The container is MPEG-4 and the sound inside is usually AAC, the codec designed as the successor to MP3 and generally better at the same bit rate. None of that has to be converted before the upload.
Keep the file from the phone; do not export it twice.
Ask for the speaker split before a call with two people.
Export SRT if the recording is going into a video.
The free plan allows 3 files a day without a card.
For the file, yes: AAC was designed as the successor of MP3 and generally holds more of the sound at the same bit rate, Wikipedia says. For the transcript, we have not measured accuracy per format, so we publish no percentage.
The name of the file is not what is transcribed, the audio stream inside is. Keep the file as the recorder wrote it, and the transcript is made from the same sound.
Not in one piece. A file is up to 30 minutes on every plan, so a longer recording is cut and uploaded as separate files.
No, a transcription is the words that were spoken, in the language they were spoken in.9the recording language is detected automatically.
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Speakers by name, a time on every line, export to TXT, SRT, VTT, CSV and Markdown.