Export the audio from the Plaud app and drop it here. You get the transcript, a summary with chapters and every export, paid for with one-time minute packs that never expire rather than a monthly allowance.
The file you have
There is no link to paste for this one. Get the file onto your phone or computer first, then upload it in the box above.
How it works
Let the app pull the recording from the device, open it and export the audio file.
From the phone, tap the upload box and pick the exported file.
Free, with a preview. A pack opens the full transcript, chapters, key quotes and exports.
Good to know
What comes back
The same four things for every Plaud recording, whatever its length.
Every line carries its time. Click a line to hear that second again, or search a name or phrase and jump to each place it was said.
A brief with the takeaways, chapters with their start times, and the quotes worth keeping. Speakers are identified and named in the summary, key quotes and chapters.
Ask where a topic came up or what was decided, and get the answer with the time it was said, instead of scrolling the whole text.
TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT, JSON from the same transcript: a document to edit, caption files for video, plain text to paste, structured data for your own tools.
Pricing
A 2 h 40 min workshop is 160 minutes, so the $4 pack (500 minutes) covers it 3 times over. Every recording gets a free preview and a summary you can read before paying; a pack opens the full transcript and every export. Packs are one-time purchases with no subscription and no seat fee.
Pick a pack to open secure checkout. Workspace is $19 a month for unlimited transcription (300-hour fair-use mark). Full pricing
1,901 recordings, 830 audio hours, 64 languages detected. An hour of audio came back in 3.7 minutes for half of the recordings and within 19.7 minutes for nine in ten, measured from the moment the file landed to the finished transcript. Refreshed 2026-10-02; method on how we test.
FAQ
Yes. Export the audio from the Plaud app and upload the file here. The preview and summary are free, and a one-time pack opens the full transcript; there is no monthly fee.
Sync the recording to the Plaud app, open it, and use the app's share or export option to save the audio to your phone or computer.
Yes. The language is detected automatically from 99+ languages and the transcript stays in the language that was spoken.
The preview and the summary are free. A pack opens the full transcript: $4 for 500 minutes, $8 for 1,000 minutes, $12 for 2,000 minutes, $24 for 5,000 minutes. Packs are one-time, credits never expire, and Workspace is $19 a month if you transcribe every week.
One file can run up to 10 hours or 5 GB. The box on this page takes files up to 500 MB; a larger file continues on the main upload page, which uploads it in parts. Most recordings come back in about two minutes per hour of audio.
Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training. You can delete a recording and its transcript at any time.
More recorders & devices sources: Sony voice recorder (ICD series) · Tascam recorder (DR series) · RØDE Wireless GO and Wireless PRO · GoPro
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