Do I have to install anything?
No. The page, the upload widget and the bot run in a browser. Two services of the comparison table of 21 October 2026 exist only as a Windows or a macOS application.
Free tools
Speech to text online, in the browser
Speech to text online: open the page, drop an audio or video file, get one line per segment with a timecode and the speakers named.
3 files a day up to 30 minutes, free99+ languagesSpeaker separation and timestamps
In short
Speech to text online means a browser and a file: drop an audio or video file on the page and get one line per segment, with a timecode and the speakers named. One file is up to 30 minutes; the free plan is $0 with 3 files a day.
The case
A page against a program
The services of this market split in two: the ones that live in a browser and the ones that have to be installed. The second kind starts with a download, works on one operating system and leaves you with a program to keep. The first kind is a page, a file and a result.
What an online speech to text service gives
| What | Value |
|---|---|
| What comes back | one segment per line, with the start and the end time of every segment |
| Speakers | named separately, on request |
| Languages | 99+ languages, set by you or detected automatically in 0.39 s |
| Where the file is processed | Athe recording language is detected automatically. |
| Speed | 0.84 s to transcribe a short file |
How to transcribe a file in the browser
- 1
Open the page and pick a file
There is nothing to sign up for before you see how it behaves: the widget on this page takes a file straight from the disk or from the phone.
- 2
Set the language, split the voices
Automatic detection, 99+ languages. When two people talk, switch on the split by speaker, so the transcript names them instead of merging them.
- 3
Read it, correct it, export it
Every line carries the time it starts and ends. Fix a word in the app and take the result as TXT, Markdown, SRT, VTT, CSV or DOCX.
Tips
A browser tab is the whole installation.
Switch the speaker split on before the upload, not after.
Long recordings are queued; you are not left watching a spinner.
Questions this page answers
How fast is a short file?
Our own measurement of 21 October 2026: 0.84 s to transcribe a short file and 0.39 s to detect its language. A long recording goes through a queue and is saved to your account.
Which languages does it understand?
9the recording language is detected automatically. We publish the two we have, not a list of a hundred.
Where does the file go after the upload?
A Russian or mixed file is processed by our own engine outside the United States. A pure English file may go to a cloud speech provider in the United States, when that fallback is switched on.
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Transcribsi editorial team
Drop a recording — the text arrives in a minute
Speakers by name, a time on every line, export to TXT, SRT, VTT, CSV and Markdown.
3 files a day up to 30 minutes, free99+ languagesSpeaker separation and timestamps