PodcastingPodcasters & creators
Free audio to text for podcasters — cut episodes faster: paste the transcript into your editor, search for the moment you need, and ship show notes the same day.
100% free, no sign-up
Audio to text. Nothing leaves your device.
100% free audio to text converter — no sign-up, no login, unlimited use. Drop an MP3 to text, WAV or M4A — get a transcript with timestamps and SRT / VTT subtitles. Free speech to text powered by OpenAI Whisper. Private, your audio never leaves your device.
- 100% free, unlimited
- Private, no upload
- SRT & VTT export
- No sign-up, no login
Drop an audio file or click to browse
MP3, WAV, M4A, OGG, FLAC, WebM — up to ~2 hours per file
Audio to text — see what you get
A real transcript, with timestamps, waveform, and one-click subtitle export.
Free audio to text — drop in a podcast, lecture, or interview. EarScribe shows you the full transcript synced to the audio — click any line to jump there, or export to SRT / VTT / TXT in a single click.
interview-acme-q3.mp324.3 MB · Whisper tiny
1:1412:48
Transcript
English · 1,842 words
- 0:08
Welcome back — today we're talking with someone who studies attention and focus in the modern workplace.
- 0:24
Interruption isn't actually the problem people think it is. The real issue is recovery time.
- 0:39
Our studies show workers take over 23 minutes to fully refocus after a single interruption.
- 0:54
So what are the practical strategies that actually work? Let's dig into the evidence.
- 1:08
The first thing is environment design — physical and digital both matter enormously.
How free unlimited audio to text works
Three steps. No sign-up, no login, 100% free, unlimited.
100% free and private audio to text — no sign-up, no login required. Your audio is processed locally on your device; there is literally nowhere for it to leak to.
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Drop your audio
Drop an MP3 to text, WAV, M4A, OGG, FLAC or WebM — up to about two hours per file. The file never leaves your machine.
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Pick a Whisper model
Tiny (40 MB) for quick notes, Turbo (~800 MB) for studio-grade accuracy. Models are cached after the first run.
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Read, edit, export
Get your audio to text as a timestamped transcript synced to a waveform. Export as SRT / VTT for subtitles or plain text for notes.
What you can do — 100% free, no sign-up, unlimited
Free unlimited audio to text converter — no sign-up, no login.
EarScribe is a 100% free audio to text converter — no sign-up, no login, unlimited use. Convert MP3 to text, WAV to text or M4A to text, generate SRT or VTT subtitles from any audio, or run OpenAI Whisper online without an API key. 100% free speech to text with no account, no quota, no per-minute fees — private, your audio never leaves your device.
- MP3.txtMP3 to text
- WAV.txtWAV to text
- M4A.txtM4A to text
- Audio.srtAudio to SRT
- Audio.vttAudio to VTT
- Podcast.txtPodcast to text
Why our free unlimited audio to text converter
Open Whisper, privacy-first, with the rough edges sanded off.
Private, no upload
All free audio to text is private — decoded locally, never uploaded to any server. Your data stays yours, with zero risk of leaking to a third party.
WebGPU when available, WASM when not
Turbo runs ~10× faster on WebGPU. On older devices we fall back to WebAssembly automatically.
99 languages, auto-detected
Drop a French podcast, a Mandarin lecture, or a Hindi interview — free audio to text in 99 languages, all auto-detected.
SRT, VTT, JSON, TXT
One-click MP3 to text or audio to SRT export. SRT and VTT cues are aligned to model-emitted timestamps, not heuristic chunking.
Works offline — unlimited, no internet needed
Models are cached locally. Once downloaded, unlimited audio to text — no internet, no quota, no per-minute billing.
100% free. No account. No API key.
100% free and unlimited — no credit card, no sign-up, no login, no usage caps. Free audio to text and free speech to text the moment you open the page.
Free, unlimited, no-login audio to text — built for everyone
Who uses EarScribe.
100% free, unlimited audio to text with no sign-up — six very different jobs. If your audio shouldn't end up on someone else's server, you're in the right place.
Podcasting
JournalismJournalists & researchers
MP3 to text for source interviews — private, no sign-up, no account. Your audio stays on your laptop. No third-party server, no audit log to subpoena.
EducationStudents & lectures
Free audio to text for students — drop a recorded lecture and get a searchable transcript before your next class.
ResearchMeetings & user interviews
Audio to text for research sessions — drop the audio in, get free speech to text, and ship a tagged transcript to your team. Nothing leaves your device.
SubtitlesVideo subtitles
Free audio to text exported as .srt or .vtt — drops straight into Premiere, Resolve, Final Cut, or YouTube. Cue times are aligned to the audio.
Long-formAudiobooks & long-form
Two-hour MP3 to text? No problem. Turbo handles audiobook-length audio — unlimited, no API quota, no per-minute fee, no login required.
Audio to text — sample output
The same audio to text transcript, three formats, ready to ship.
What an exported MP3 to text or audio to SRT file actually looks like — paste straight into your editor or upload to YouTube.
transcript.srt
SubRip1 00:00:08,120 --> 00:00:18,640 Welcome back — we're talking attention research.
transcript.vtt
WebVTTWEBVTT 00:00:08.120 --> 00:00:18.640 Welcome back — we're talking attention research.
transcript.txt
Plain text[00:00:08] Host: Welcome back — we're talking attention research.
100% free, unlimited, no-login audio to text — how it compares
EarScribe vs Otter.ai, Rev and the Whisper API.
A 100% free, unlimited, no-login audio to text alternative to cloud transcription — same Whisper model family, three very different deployment shapes. (Pricing is indicative.)
| Capability | EarScribeYou | Whisper API | Hosted SaaS |
|---|---|---|---|
| 100% free, no credit card | Yes | No | No |
| Unlimited use, no quota | Yes | No | No |
| Account / login required | No | Yes | Yes |
| Per-minute pricing | Free | $0.006/min | $10–25/mo |
| Private, audio stays on-device | Yes | No | No |
| Works offline | Yes | No | No |
| Whisper-quality accuracy | Yes | Yes | Varies |
| Open source models | Yes | No | No |
| SRT / VTT export | Yes | No | Yes |
| Setup time | 0s | API key + code | Sign-up flow |
EarScribe free audio to text in numbers
99
languages
Auto-detected, no manual pick required.
0
bytes uploaded
Private audio to text — your audio never leaves your device.
$0
/ month
100% free and unlimited — no sign-up, no login, no usage cap.
~2h
max length
Long-form MP3 to text handled in a single pass.
Audio to text — supported formats
Free unlimited audio to text converter — no sign-up, no account. If you can play it, EarScribe converts your audio to text: MP3 to text, WAV to text, M4A to text, and more.
MP3WAVM4AOGGFLACWebMOpusAAC
Free audio to text in 99 languages (auto-detected)
Free audio to text in Whisper's 99 supported languages. The model picks the right one from the first few seconds of audio.
EnglishMandarinSpanishHindiArabicPortugueseBengaliRussianJapanesePunjabiGermanJavaneseKoreanFrenchTeluguVietnameseTamilItalianTurkishPolishUkrainianDutchPersianThaiSwedishCzechGreekHebrewFinnishNorwegianHungarian+68 more
100% free, no login audio to text — from real users
Quiet, fast, and entirely yours.
A few representative folks who switched to free, unlimited, no-login audio to text. (Placeholder quotes — swap with real ones when you have them.)
Replaced a $19/mo subscription — 100% free, no login, unlimited audio to text. The Turbo model on my M2 is faster than waiting for a cloud upload over hotel wifi.
Maya R.
Podcast producer
Source confidentiality is non-negotiable. With this free speech to text tool — no account, no upload — the audio never leaves the laptop. That's the difference between using it and not.
Daniel K.
Investigative reporter
Unlimited audio to text of fieldwork audio, on a plane, with no quota and no login. Free speech to text that just keeps working.
Priya S.
PhD student, linguistics
100% free, no sign-up, unlimited
Drop an audio file for 100% free audio to text — no sign-up, no login, unlimited.
Scroll back to the top, pick a file, and you're ten seconds away from unlimited free audio to text with timestamps. 100% free speech to text and MP3 to text — no account required.
Free unlimited audio to text — FAQ
Is EarScribe really 100% free with no limits?
Yes — 100% free, unlimited, no sign-up and no login required. There are no paid tiers, no credit card, no per-minute fees, and no daily or monthly quota. The Whisper speech to text model runs on your own hardware, so there is no cloud compute cost to pass on. Free audio to text with no strings attached.
Is my audio private and secure?
Fully private. EarScribe is a local-first audio to text converter: your audio file never leaves your device and is never uploaded to any server. No account means no data collected about you. You can even use it offline once the model is downloaded.
Is my audio uploaded anywhere?
No. Free audio to text happens entirely locally — the audio is decoded on your device and fed to a Whisper model running in a Web Worker. Nothing is sent to a server.
Why is the first run slow?
The first time you pick a model for audio to text, your browser downloads it (80 MB to 800 MB depending on the size). After that the free audio to text model is cached and reused — no re-download needed.
What languages are supported?
Free audio to text supports 99 languages via Whisper. The language is detected automatically — you do not need to pick one.
Can I transcribe a video?
Not directly. For video audio to text, extract the audio first (any tool that can output MP3 or WAV will work) and drop that here.
Does this work offline?
After the model has been downloaded once, yes — free audio to text works offline. The page itself needs to be loaded first, but subsequent audio to text runs work without internet.
How do I convert an MP3 to text for free?
Drop the MP3 onto EarScribe for free MP3 to text. The file is decoded in your browser, Whisper transcribes it locally, and you can copy the MP3 to text output or export your MP3 to text as SRT, VTT, TXT or JSON. There is no upload step and no account required.
Is there a free Otter.ai or Rev alternative?
EarScribe is a free audio to text alternative to cloud transcription services like Otter.ai, Rev and HappyScribe. The trade-off: you do the compute on your own machine for free speech to text, but the audio never leaves it and there are no per-minute fees or subscriptions.
Can I generate SRT or VTT subtitles from audio?
Yes. After audio to text, click Export → .srt or .vtt. Cue timing comes from Whisper's emitted timestamps, so the subtitles align with the audio to text output without manual splitting.
Does this run OpenAI Whisper in the browser?
Yes — EarScribe runs free audio to text via Whisper (Tiny, Base, Small, and Large v3 Turbo) directly in the browser through Transformers.js on WebGPU, falling back to WebAssembly when unavailable.