Translate sound to text is the process of recognizing the spoken words in an audio file and turning them into a written document. Any type of recorded sound — a voice clip, a podcast episode, a meeting capture, or a field recording — can be processed and returned as editable text in minutes.
Speech2Text works as an online sound to text translator. You provide the file or a link, and the service handles the rest: recognizing speech, adding punctuation, identifying speakers, and delivering a clean transcript you can edit and export without leaving the browser.
Save hours of manual work. Typing up a recording by hand means listening, pausing, and retyping over and over. An automated sound to text translator processes an hour of audio in under ten minutes.
Make sound searchable. A text document is fully searchable in any editor or document system. Once your recording is transcribed, you can find any word, quote, or passage in seconds.
Repurpose content faster. Translated sound files become ready-made material for articles, show notes, summaries, reports, and social media posts. No extra writing needed — just edit and publish.
Improve accessibility. A text version of any recorded content makes it available to people who prefer reading, to those in noisy environments, and to anyone who needs a written record of what was said.
Work with any language. Speech2Text recognizes speech in more than 90 languages, so you can translate a sound file to text regardless of where the recording was made or what language was spoken.
— Open Speech2Text and upload your audio file using the upload area, or paste the URL of an online source — YouTube, a podcast feed, or any publicly hosted sound file.
— Select the language spoken in the recording. Use auto-detect if you are not sure, and the engine will identify the language automatically from the first few seconds.
— Turn on speaker separation if more than one person is speaking. And enable timestamps if you want each paragraph linked back to a specific moment in the original file.
— Start recognition. The sound to text translator processes your file and returns a structured transcript — usually within a few minutes for most recordings.
— Review the result in the built-in editor. Correct any names, technical terms, or unusual words the engine may have misheard, then export the final document.
Speech2Text accepts virtually any sound source:
— Audio files: MP3, WAV, M4A, OGG, OPUS, WMA, AAC, FLAC, and more
— Video files with a spoken soundtrack: MP4, AVI, MOV, WebM, MKV
— Online links: YouTube videos, podcast episodes, and any publicly accessible media URL
There is no need to convert your file to a specific format before uploading. The service handles the conversion internally and processes the speech regardless of the original container.
Upload a sound file and see how Speech2Text handles it. The trial is free and requires no registration — paste in a link or drag a file into the upload area, and you will have a readable transcript in minutes.
Once you see the quality and speed, you can use the service regularly for any sound files that would otherwise take hours to type up manually.
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