Transcribe an audio file from Notion to text
Notion recording to text: the speech of an audio file in Notion as text with the time of every line, exported as TXT, SRT, VTT or CSV. Up to 30 minutes a file on the free plan, no minute limit on Pro.
An audio file on a page of Notion is a file on the servers of Notion. Take that file and the speech of it comes back as text, one line per segment, with the time of every line. One file holds 30 minutes.
How to transcribe an audio file from Notion
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Open the page of the recording
Find the page with the audio block and open it. The player of the file sits on the page, and the name of the block often holds the date of the meeting.
- 2
Take the audio file
Download the file of the block or find it in the menu of the page. Notion keeps an uploaded audio file on its own servers, and the formats it takes are aac, m4a, mp3 and wav.
- 3
Upload it on the widget
Put the file on the widget above and leave the language on automatic detection. The engine works with 99+ languages and picks the language of the file on its own.
- 4
Export the text
Every line of the export shows the second it starts at. TXT for the document, SRT for the video, CSV for a table with the time and the voice.
What you get
- TXT
Plain text for an email, a note or a chat
- SRT
Subtitles for video editors and platforms
- VTT
Subtitles for a browser and a website
- CSV
A table: time, speaker, text
- DOCX
A Word document with speakers and times
- Markdown
Text with headings for notes
What the transcript of a file holds
- The audio block of a page
an uploaded audio file; the file is kept on the servers of Notion
- The formats
aac, m4a, mp3 and wav; a movie or a Loom video is not taken
- One file
up to 30 minutes on the free plan, no minute limit on Pro
- The words of the file
99+ languages; the language is detected on its own
Why the audio on the page is not a text
The recording of the planning week was put into a page of Notion, and the page shows a player and three lines of a summary. The words themselves are in the file, and a text of that file turns the page into a document you can quote.
Tips
Check the format of the file before the upload: aac, m4a, mp3 or wav.
Convert a movie before you put it on the page.
Keep the link to the page next to the file.
Export TXT for a document, SRT for the video of the meeting.
Questions this page answers
Which audio files does Notion take?
The meeting notes of Notion take an uploaded audio file in aac, m4a, mp3 or wav. A movie or a Loom video is not taken, and the file has to be converted first.
Where is the file kept?
On the servers of Notion, says the help page of the meeting notes. The privacy rules of your workspace decide what you may put there, and we do not read them for you.
Does Notion write the text of the file?
The meeting notes of the page are made from the audio that was uploaded. A text with the time of every line comes from the engine you upload the file to.
How long may one file be?
up to 30 minutes, on every plan. A recording that is longer is cut into parts before the upload, and every part carries its own timecodes.
Sources
- WNotion: the meeting notes of an uploaded audio filewww.notion.com · checked 24 October 2026
- WNotion: the images, the files and the media of a pagewww.notion.com · checked 24 October 2026
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Speakers by name, a time on every line, export to TXT, SRT, VTT, CSV and Markdown.