How to Transcribe a Voice Memo to Text (MP3, M4A, WAV)

If you already have the file

Share the memo from your phone as a file - iPhone memos are M4A, most Android recorders produce MP3 or WAV - and drop it into the upload box on the Multilingual Voice Recorder page. Choose the language the transcript should be in; it does not have to be the language spoken.

If you are recording now

Press Record on the same page or in the app. The recorder keeps going with the screen off and stops where your weekly allowance does, keeping what you said. Recording in NoteBase skips the export step and the note is ready when you press Done.

What comes back

A transcript in full sentences, split by speaker where more than one voice is present, with an interactive timestamp on every paragraph; and above it a summary of what was said. A 10-minute memo is usually back in well under a minute.

• Speaker tags separate every voice in the room
• Timestamps jump the player to that second
• 100+ languages, and bilingual recordings in one pass

Two settings that change the result

The output language, and whether the note is a plain transcript or a summary template - a meeting template will hand back decisions and action items rather than a narrative. Both are chosen before you upload, and both can be re-run on the same recording.