WMA usually means an archive: a Windows recorder, a dictation handset, a conference room system, a shelf of files nobody has opened in years. Upload one and read it without hunting for a codec, then keep the genuine .docx. Packs from $4, in full, for anything at any length · then 1,000 minutes for $8, with credit that stays put.
How it works
The file needs no converting, and your computer need not play it.
Drop the .wma in above. Because these are small, a whole folder of them goes up quickly, one after another.
The transcript opens with a time against every line, so you can tell within seconds whether this is the recording you wanted.
Export DOCX and file that alongside the audio. TXT, SRT, VTT, JSON and Markdown are available from the same transcript.
About WMA
Small, mono and usually older than the laptop you are reading this on.
Windows Sound Recorder, dictation handsets, conference room systems and discs ripped in the 2000s wrote WMA when it was the obvious Windows choice.
Voice WMA is typically mono at 32 to 64 kbps, which is 15 to 30 MB an hour. A hundred old meeting recordings often weigh less than one modern video.
Macs and phones have no built-in WMA playback, which is how these recordings end up unheard. Uploading one gets you the content without installing anything.
A conference phone recorded in 2005 was compressed hard by the standards of the day. Expect names and acronyms to want a pass by hand once the document is open.
| WMA recording | One hour | Five hours | Ten hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| 32 kbps mono dictation | ~14 MB | ~72 MB | ~144 MB |
| 64 kbps mono meeting | ~29 MB | ~144 MB | ~288 MB |
| 128 kbps stereo | ~58 MB | ~288 MB | ~576 MB |
At these sizes the box on this page takes almost any WMA you have.
Who has these files
Recordings kept because they mattered, never listened to since.
A handset full of notes becomes documents you can finish editing, years after they were dictated.
Committee recordings from a decade ago become searchable, which is how anyone finds anything in them.
Where audio must be kept, a written copy makes the pile something people can review.
Interviews with relatives become readable for everyone who cannot play the file.
Pricing
Because charging is per minute, a shelf of short recordings costs very little to work through. a pack from $4 opens the full transcript and readable entire, at any length long.
Two hundred dictation notes averaging six minutes is 1,200 minutes: covered by the $12 pack of 2,000, at well under a cent a minute. Pricing has the packs.
FAQ
Yes. Drop the file in as it is. There is no codec to install and no conversion step before you start.
Not at all. Playback on your own machine is unrelated to whether the recording transcribes, which is why unplayable archives bring people here.
No. Those labels appear only in the transcript view on this page. The DOCX download holds the spoken text, and JSON is the export that carries speaker information.
Often, yes. Heavy old compression costs some accuracy on names and acronyms, but the substance of a meeting or a dictated note comes through well enough to use.
Up to 5 GB and up to ten hours, which for voice-rate WMA means length is the only limit you will ever meet.
Yes, a genuine .docx. It opens in Word, Google Docs, Pages and LibreOffice, and you can edit and restyle it freely.
Yes. Signed in, edit or delete a line and save it, and the Word file you download contains your correction.
In your library, where they are searchable and can be downloaded again in any format without spending more credit.
Instant preview, no signup, no codec to chase down.