How to transcribe a WhatsApp voice message
8 min Getting the audio off your phone is the hard part. The routes WhatsApp documents, then how to transcribe a WhatsApp voice message without uploading it.
Transcription, plainly explained.
Getting speech into text: formats, accuracy, privacy, and what your laptop can run. Prices dated, facts sourced, tool claims measured. How they are written.
How to transcribe a Google Meet recording
8 min Where Google Meet saves a recording in Drive, who can download it, what editions include transcripts, and how to transcribe a Google Meet recording locally.
How to get a transcript from an MP4: transcribe MP4 to text in the browser
8 min Transcribe MP4 to text without uploading it. Only the audio track is read, so a 4 GB video is not 4 GB of work, and MOV files go through the same path.
How to transcribe a WebM file to text, the format your browser picked for you
8 min Transcribe WebM to text in the browser. What Opus audio, a missing duration and a screen recording with no audio track mean for the file you were handed.
How to transcribe an M4A file to text, and what M4A actually is
8 min Transcribe M4A to text in your browser. What Apple's extension really means, where M4A files come from, and why a purchased track refuses to open.
How to transcribe a WAV file to text, and why the size is not the quality
8 min Transcribe WAV to text in the browser, with the arithmetic behind a 600 MB hour and why an uncompressed studio file reaches the model as 16 kHz mono.
How to transcribe an MP3 to text, and what the bitrate costs you
8 min Transcribe MP3 to text in your browser, and see what bitrate, mono or stereo and re-encoding really cost you once the audio is mixed down to 16 kHz mono.
How to convert audio to text: the three routes and what each costs
8 min How to convert audio to text three ways: type it yourself, upload to a cloud service, or run speech recognition in your browser. Costs, speed and privacy.