Every Speaker Labelled
The MP3 to text conversion separates voices as it goes, so an interview or a four-person meeting comes back as a transcript you can read instead of one unbroken block.
Free MP3 to Text Converter
Convert MP3 to text in minutes. Upload an MP3 file and get an accurate, timestamped transcript with every speaker labelled.
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How to Convert MP3 to Text in Three Steps
The whole process runs in your browser. Audio to text conversion for a one-hour recording takes a few minutes, and you can close the tab while it works.
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Upload Your MP3 File
Drag an MP3 file onto the page or pick one from your device. Files up to 2 GB and 4 hours are fine, so interviews, lectures and full meetings all work.
- 02
Let the AI Transcribe It
The language is detected automatically and each speaker is separated while the MP3 transcription runs. You watch each stage instead of staring at a blank screen.
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Read and Export the Text
Read the transcript, search it with Ctrl+F, check any line against the audio, then export it as TXT, SRT or VTT.
Why Convert MP3 to Text with MP3toText?
MP3toText is an online MP3 to text converter. Drop a file into the browser and a readable transcript comes back, with nothing to install.
Timestamps on Every Line
Every line carries the second it was spoken. Quote a moment, cut a clip or jump back to the exact point in the recording without scrubbing through the audio.
More Than MP3
Convert M4A, WAV, AAC, FLAC and OGG the same way. Video files such as MP4 and MOV work too — the audio track is pulled out and transcribed automatically.
99% Accurate MP3 Transcription
Clean speech transcribes at around 99% word accuracy. The speech to text model is the same class paid services use — accents, background noise and crosstalk still pull that number down.
Your Audio Stays Private
Your MP3 file is transferred over an encrypted connection and deleted 24 hours after you upload it. Your audio is never used to train models.
Free to Start
Convert MP3 to text without a card or a download. When you need more than the free allowance, buy hours once or pick a monthly plan.
What People Use an MP3 to Text Converter For
Anywhere a recording has to become something you can read, search and quote. These are the four jobs people bring to an MP3 to text converter most often.
Meeting Recordings
Turn a meeting recording into a searchable record. Convert the MP3 to text once and you can find when a decision was made instead of scrubbing an hour of audio.
Interviews and Podcasts
Transcribe an MP3 of an interview or a podcast episode and you have quotable text, show notes and subtitles from one file, without listening to it twice.
Lectures and Online Courses
Students convert MP3 to text to revise from a lecture instead of replaying it, and a written transcript makes the same material usable by anyone who cannot listen.
Voice Memos and Field Recordings
Phone memos and field recordings pile up unread. Audio to text conversion turns them into notes you can actually search, months after you forgot recording them.
MP3 to Text: Frequently Asked Questions
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MP3 to text conversion, also called speech to text, uses a speech model to turn spoken words in an audio file into text you can read and edit.
Open mp3totext.xyz, drop your MP3 file onto the page and wait. The transcript appears in the browser, with nothing to install.
No. MP3toText runs entirely in the browser, on any modern desktop or phone. Nothing to download, nothing to keep updated.
Not for short files. Files under 30 minutes transcribe with no account at all. Anything longer needs a free sign-in with Google, which takes one click.
MP3toText is free for four hours of audio a day, up to 10 hours in total; both limits apply together and the daily allowance resets at 00:00 UTC. Files under 30 minutes need no account, longer ones need a free sign-in with Google, and no card is ever asked for. When you need more, hour packs and monthly plans are on the pricing page.
MP3toText handles M4A, WAV, AAC, FLAC and OGG, plus video files such as MP4, MOV and MKV. The audio track is extracted for you.
Yes. MP3toText takes files up to 4 hours long, so full meetings and lectures are fine. Files over 30 minutes need a free sign-in. You can close the tab while one runs.
Up to 2 GB per file, which covers any normal MP3 and most video files. The limit is shown on the upload panel before you start.
TXT for plain text, SRT and VTT for subtitles. You choose whether speaker labels and timestamps come along with the export.
Yes. MP3toText pulls the audio track out of MP4, MOV, MKV and WEBM files and transcribes it exactly as it would an MP3.
Around 99% word accuracy on clear speech. Accents, background noise and people talking over each other lower it, as they do for any MP3 transcription.
Yes. MP3toText labels each speaker separately, so interviews and meetings come back split by voice rather than as one unbroken block of text.
It copes with ordinary room noise and phone audio. Heavy background noise and several people speaking at once still cost accuracy in any audio to text tool.
MP3toText covers 90+ languages and detects the spoken language automatically, so you never have to tell it what is on the recording.
No. MP3toText transcribes a recording in the language it was spoken in, so a Spanish MP3 comes back as Spanish text. Many people search for a way to translate MP3 to text when what they need is a transcript. If you do need the words in another language, paste the finished transcript into a translation tool.
Every line is timestamped to the second, and those timestamps survive the export to SRT or VTT if you want to keep them.
A one-hour recording is usually done in a few minutes. MP3toText shows each stage as it runs, so you can leave the page and come back.
Files are transferred over an encrypted connection. MP3toText deletes your audio and transcript 24 hours after upload, and never uses your recordings to train models.
Yes. MP3toText works in a mobile browser, so you can convert a voice memo to text straight from the phone that recorded it.
Journalists, students, researchers, podcasters and support teams — anyone who needs audio to text and has more recordings than time to replay them.
Typing an hour of audio by hand takes several hours. MP3toText gives you a draft in minutes, and correcting a draft is far faster than starting from nothing.
ChatGPT is a chat assistant, not a transcription tool. Convert the MP3 to text with MP3toText first, then paste the transcript into ChatGPT to summarize or translate it.
Not from a saved file. Google Docs voice typing only transcribes live microphone input. To convert an existing MP3 to text, upload it to MP3toText instead.
Convert Your First MP3 to Text Free
Bring an MP3 and see what the transcript looks like. No card and nothing to install.