Record on your phone or a digital voice recorder, upload the file, and get your words back as text or a DOCX you can edit. Files over 500 MB continue on the upload page. Packs from $4, credits never expire. · packs from $4 for 500 minutes, credits never expire.
How it works
Three steps, all in the browser.
Phone voice memo apps usually save M4A or MP3: share the file to your computer, or upload straight from your phone's browser. Most digital recorders show up as a drive when you connect them by USB.
WhipScribe accepts MP3, MP4, M4A, WAV, WebM, FLAC, OGG and MOV. It does not accept DSS or DS2 files, so if your recorder saves in those formats, use the recorder's own software to export the dictation as MP3 or WAV first.
Read the transcript in your browser, then export TXT to paste into an email or DOCX to finish the document in Word.
Better results
Clear audio does most of the work.
Hold the phone or recorder a hand's width from your mouth and keep it steady. Distance and rustling cost more accuracy than accent or speed.
Traffic, fans and a television in the background all end up competing with your voice. A closed door makes a real difference.
A separate file for each letter, report or chapter keeps your library tidy and lets you export each one on its own.
Export DOCX and do the final polish in Word: headings, formatting and any names or terms that need checking.
Who dictates
For anyone who thinks faster out loud than at a keyboard.
Talk through a first draft on the move, then tidy the DOCX at your desk.
Record observations as you go and get searchable notes back, with timestamps if you want to recheck what you said.
Dictate scenes, outlines or chapters while walking, and edit the text later like any other draft.
Say the key points into your phone straight after a meeting, before the details fade, and file the text in your library.
Pricing
After that, $8 buys 1,000 minutes, $12 buys 2,000 minutes and $24 buys 5,000 minutes. Credits never expire and there is no subscription.
Cost example: a 15-minute dictation is $0.12 on the $8 pack. Dictate 15 minutes every working day and 22 working days come to 330 minutes, $2.64 on the $8 pack, so one pack lasts about three months at that pace.
FAQ
Record with your phone's voice memo app, then upload the file on this page, from the phone's browser or from a computer. You can preview with no signup; a pack from $4 opens the full transcript.
Yes, if the file is MP3, M4A, WAV, FLAC, OGG, WebM, MP4 or MOV. If your recorder uses its own format, export or convert the recording to MP3 or WAV in the recorder's software, then upload that.
Yes. Export DOCX from the transcript and open it in Word, Google Docs or Pages. TXT is there too if you only need to paste the text somewhere.
Up to 10 hours or 5 GB per file. The box on this page takes files up to 500 MB and larger files continue on the upload page.
Yes. Signed in, you can edit or delete a line and save it, and the exported DOCX stays fully editable in Word.
In your WhipScribe library, where you can search every transcript and download it again in any format.
Packs from $4, credits never expire. After that, packs are $8 for 1,000 minutes, $12 for 2,000 minutes or $24 for 5,000 minutes, and credits never expire.
Instant preview, no signup. A free account keeps every transcript in one searchable library.