How to convert an MP3 to text
Pick the MP3 from your device: a voice recording, a podcast episode or a recorded call all go in the same upload box. The upload is resumable, so a dropped connection picks up where it left off instead of starting over. After the upload, the MP3 waits in the transcription queue and the page shows your place in it with an estimated wait.
The transcript then appears on this page. Each line has a timestamp, and when the MP3 has more than one voice, each line also says which speaker it belongs to. There is nothing to set up first: no engine to choose and no options to adjust.
Made for spoken-word MP3s
The MP3s people need as text are mostly speech: recorded calls, podcast episodes, dictated notes, interviews saved by a recorder app. Speaker labels come with every transcript, so a two-person podcast or a call reads as a dialogue instead of one block of text. The free tool uses the same transcription pipeline as the paid product, on infrastructure we operate. Your audio is not sent to third-party AI providers, and per-language accuracy is published openly on our benchmarks page.
Free limits for MP3 files
One free transcription per day, shared across all free tools. The MP3 can run up to 45 minutes and be up to 1 GB. Timestamps, speaker labels and automatic language detection across 52 languages and dialects are included. Free transcripts are deleted automatically about 24 hours after they finish, so copy the text out or sign up to keep it.
A free account raises the length limit and adds signup credit, exports (TXT, SRT, VTT and more), a searchable library of your recordings, and cited answers to questions about them. Pricing has the details.
More free tools
Not an MP3? The free audio to text converter page covers other audio formats, the free voice memo to text converter page explains how to get a recording off your phone, and video files go to the free MP4 to text converter. The free interview transcription tool page is written for conversations with several people, and the free YouTube transcript generator takes a link instead of a file. All of them are collected on the free tools page.