Android voice recorder to text

Which file does an Android recorder make?

It depends on the app and the phone. Most current recorder apps save M4A, which uploads as it is. Older phones and some apps save 3GP or AMR instead. Others save MP3, WAV or Ogg. All of those are accepted here; the formats page lists every one. If you are unsure what you have, the free audio file info tool shows the length, size and format of a file without uploading it.

Steps

1. Open your recorder app, find the recording and use its share option to send it to yourself (email, a messaging app, or save to your cloud storage), or connect the phone to a computer.
2. Choose the file in the box above. On the phone, the file picker opens the same places.
3. Read the transcript with the audio, correct it and export.
4. Keep the transcript in a free account's library if you want to search it later.

Your recorder may transcribe it already

Some recorder apps, Google's Recorder on Pixel phones among them, transcribe what you record inside the app, in the languages they support. Use this page when your app does not, when your language is not covered, or when you want a transcript you can edit and export as TXT, SRT, VTT or JSON.

Making the recording easier to transcribe

• ·Hold the phone's microphone close to the speaker; the bottom edge of most phones is the microphone.
• ·Put the phone on a surface rather than holding it, to avoid handling noise.
• ·Avoid recording in a pocket or bag.
• ·For a meeting, put the phone in the middle of the table and expect the people far from it to be harder to read.
• ·Record a short test first and listen back.

Size and length

Without an account one file can be up to 15 minutes and 25 MB. A free account lifts those per-file limits and keeps your transcripts in a library, so for a longer recording create one instead of cutting the file up. Phone recordings in M4A are small, so the length limit is usually the one you reach first.