Voice Memos saves an M4A file, and that is exactly what the box below takes — no converting first. Share it straight from the phone or send it to a computer; either way the text comes back with every word timed, and turns marked in the transcript view when more than one person is talking. Files over 500 MB continue on the upload page. A pack from $4 opens the full transcript.
How it works
Nothing to install, on the phone or the computer.
Open Voice Memos and tap the recording, then the three dots for its options. A trimmed memo shares as trimmed, so tidy the ends first.
Open this page in Safari on the phone and pick the memo through Files, or AirDrop it to a Mac.
The transcript arrives with every word timed. Take it away as TXT for a note, DOCX for Word, or SRT and VTT if the memo is a soundtrack.
The file itself
One format, one setting that changes the size, and one place it syncs to.
Voice Memos records to M4A, which is MPEG-4 audio. There is nothing to convert: upload the memo exactly as the app saved it.
What people record
Most of what arrives here started as a memo someone made in a hurry.
Two people and a phone between them works. Turns are marked with numbered labels in the transcript view — as with research interviews and interviews for journalists.
Talk through an idea on a walk and get it back as text you can search, instead of a recording you will never play again.
Keep the phone as close to the speaker as you can. Distance from the microphone costs more accuracy than any accent.
TXT, DOCX, SRT and VTT download as words alone. JSON is the one export that records which speaker said each segment.
Pricing
A pack from $4 opens the full transcript. After that, one-time packs: $8 for 1,000 minutes, $12 for 2,000 minutes and $24 for 5,000 minutes. Credits never expire.
A ten-minute memo is $0.08 on the $8 pack. One memo a day for a year is about 3,650 minutes.
FAQ
Open the recording in Voice Memos, tap the three dots and choose Share. Save it to Files and upload from there, or open this page in Safari on the phone.
M4A, which is MPEG-4 audio. It uploads exactly as the app saved it — there is nothing to convert first.
Yes. The box on this page works in Safari on the phone, and its file picker reaches anything you have saved into Files.
The box takes files up to 500 MB, which covers a long compressed memo. Lossless and very long recordings continue on the upload page, up to 10 hours or 5 GB.
In the transcript view, yes: turns are marked with numbered speaker labels. The TXT, DOCX, SRT and VTT downloads carry the words without labels, and JSON keeps the speaker for each segment.
Yes. DOCX is one of the exports and opens in Word, Pages or Google Docs. TXT, MD, SRT, VTT and JSON come from the same job.
Only in that a trimmed memo shares as trimmed, so you upload the edit rather than the original. That is usually what you want.
Instant preview, no signup. A pack from $4 opens the full transcript.