No account. No daily cap.Others give you three files a day and call it unlimited — audio to text free here, files up to 60 minutes, as often as you like.
Upload any recording (MP3, WAV, M4A, a voice memo, an interview) and get an accurate transcript in seconds. No account, no watermark, no per-minute fee. Download as TXT, or grab SRT/VTT subtitles too.
However you searched for it — transcribe audio to text free, free transcribe audio to text, or free transcription audio to text — the process here is the same: upload, wait a few seconds, download.
Plain transcript and subtitles right here. Speaker labels, bleeping, translation, burned-in subtitles and files over 90 MB live in the full tool.
Transcribe audio now →Transcribing audio to text shouldn't come with a catch. Most "free" audio transcribers cap you at a few minutes a day or add a watermark until you pay. ScribeGrab runs on our own GPU, so we don't pay a cloud provider per minute, which means we can give it away with no daily cap: individual files up to 60 minutes and 1.5 GB. Auto-detects around 100 languages, and your file is deleted the moment it's done.
Upload whatever you already have: ScribeGrab reads MP3, WAV, M4A, FLAC, OGG, AAC and Opus files directly, plus common video containers if you only need the spoken words pulled out. There's no need to convert anything first or match the format to what the tool expects.
Got an MP3 to text job (a downloaded podcast episode, a ripped lecture recording)? Drop the MP3 in and the transcript comes back the same way as any other format. A quick voice memo to text conversion (the note you dictated to yourself on your phone) works exactly the same, no extra steps. ScribeGrab is an audio to text converter free of charge and doubles as a voice to text converter for dictated notes — voice to text free, same as everything else here.
Curious how close the transcript will be to what was actually said? Read our honest breakdown of Speech to text and voice to text are the same tool under the words people more often search for. how accurate AI transcription really is. And since every upload also produces subtitle files, see SRT vs VTT if you're not sure which one you need.
Short answer: not for the transcript. ScribeGrab decodes them all the same way, so the words you get back don't change with the container. The differences are only about file size and where the recording came from:
You never need to convert one format to another before uploading. Higher-quality source audio can help a little on borderline recordings, but a plain phone MP3 of clear speech transcribes just as cleanly as a studio WAV.
Most jobs are one of a handful of patterns — all of them the same three steps (get the file, upload, download the TXT):
Being honest about this saves you a surprise. our speech model is genuinely good, but recording conditions still matter:
Background music generally isn't a problem — the model focuses on speech and ignores most non-speech sound. For the full picture, including what "95% accurate" actually means in practice, see how accurate AI transcription really is.
In the 40 days from 13 July to 21 August 2026, ScribeGrab measured 5,361 uploaded audio and video files end to end. The average ran 18.0 minutes; the longest was 137.4 minutes, well past the 60-minute limit for a single free file. Most jobs cluster in longer recordings, not quick clips: 1,063 files ran 34–68 minutes, 817 ran 17–34 minutes, and 571 ran 9–17 minutes. 73% of everything uploaded sat comfortably under the limit, but 407 files landed within 10% of it and 197 went over it outright. The single most common way people get stuck here isn't a bad recording or a wrong format — it's length: "Media is longer than 60 minutes — please trim" was the single most common error on the whole site, hit 155 times in the same 40 days.
Every upload produces three files, not just one, so you're covered whether you want text or timecodes:
If your recording is really a video and you want captions rather than a transcript, head to video subtitles; to pick between the two subtitle formats, see SRT vs VTT. Need the opposite direction — writing read out loud as natural speech? That's our text to speech.
The same idea works on a scanned document instead of a recording: ScanReviver's OCR turns a scanned PDF into one you can search and select text in, instead of a flat image of a page.
Yes, no daily cap, no per-minute charge, no watermark, no account. The ads keep the GPU running.
Very accurate audio transcription on clear speech (our speech model). Heavy accents, crosstalk or noisy recordings are harder for any tool: give it a quick proofread.
Deleted right after processing; results wiped within 45 minutes. See privacy.
Yes, every transcription also produces SRT and VTT. For video captions see video subtitles.