Voice memo Transcription

Transcribe a voice memo or voice note

Anyone who thinks out loud into their phone — writers capturing ideas, salespeople logging call notes on the way back to the car, journalists recording observations in the field.

MP3, M4A, WAV, FLAC, OGG, MP4 · up to 20 MB as a guest

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What makes voice memo recordings hard

Voice memos are recorded in exactly the conditions that hurt accuracy most: walking, driving, standing in a street. They are also usually unstructured — half-formed sentences and trailing thoughts that are harder to punctuate than prepared speech.

A workflow that holds up

1

Upload the M4A or OGG straight from your phone without converting it.

2

Transcribe in batches at the end of the day rather than one memo at a time.

3

Treat the transcript as raw material to edit, not as a finished note.

4

Join related memos into one file when they belong to the same train of thought.

Things worth knowing first

  • Speaking a few words of context at the start gives you a searchable header later.
  • Road noise while driving is the single biggest accuracy cost — a moment stopped is worth more than any setting.
  • Voice notes are short, so they fit comfortably inside even the guest limit.

What you get back

Every job returns both versions. Take whichever fits the job.

Clean transcript for reading and editing
Thanks everyone for joining. Let's start with last month's numbers. I'll share my screen so you can follow along. The headline is that renewals came in ahead of forecast for the third quarter running.
Timestamped for subtitles and citation
[00:00 → 00:04] Thanks everyone for joining.
[00:04 → 00:09] Let's start with last month's numbers.
[00:09 → 00:14] I'll share my screen so you can follow along.

An illustration of the two output formats. Not the result of any particular recording.

Questions about voice memo transcription

Yes. The M4A files they produce upload directly with no conversion.
Export the message and upload the OGG file. Opus voice notes transcribe better than their tiny size suggests.
Yes, and short files return almost instantly. Very short clips give the model less context, so a full sentence beats a fragment.

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