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The recorder that ships with Windows saves its files in Documents\Sound recordings. Drop one here and the lecture, meeting or memo you recorded comes back as a timestamped transcript with a summary.
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
Right-click the recording in Sound Recorder and choose Show in folder.
The M4A uploads as it is; nothing to convert.
Free preview and summary; a pack opens the full transcript with DOCX, TXT and caption exports.
Good to know
What comes back
The same four things for every Sound Recorder 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 75-minute seminar is 75 minutes, so the $4 pack (500 minutes) covers it 6 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
In Documents\Sound recordings, as M4A files by default. Right-click a recording in the app and choose Show in folder to open it.
Sound Recorder only records. Upload the file here to get a transcript with timestamps, a summary and exports.
Yes. WMA, MP3, FLAC, WAV and M4A from Sound Recorder are all read directly.
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 voice recording sources: Samsung Voice Recorder · Apple Voice Memos
Related: Transcribe an M4A file · Windows screen recording · Transcribe a lecture · Apple Voice Memos · WMA to text
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Free preview, no signup to try. Up to 10 hours or 5 GB in one file.
For the recordings and videos it produces: see a video transcription service for uploads and links, how to transcribe audio to text online and transcription services from $4.