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Transcribe Audio to Text Online

Upload your audio file and get an accurate transcript in 135+ languages. This audio to text converter labels different speakers and turns spoken audio into editable text. Recordings up to five hours.

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How to Transcribe Audio to Text Online with Rask AI?

Upload your audio file

Pick the audio file, upload it from your device, or paste a Google Drive link. The audio formats are MP3 and WAV, and a video in MP4, MOV, WEBM or MKV goes through the same way. Audio file upload takes seconds, and you can upload audio straight from a phone.

Press the Translate button

Choose the desired language and start transcribing - or leave it on autodetect and let the AI work out the original language and the number of speakers itself. AI speech recognition will convert speech to text, punctuate it, and timestamp every segment. Speech to text runs on the audio itself, so nothing depends on a caption track existing first, and speech to text in one language does not stop you translating into another.

Download the transcript

Check the text beside the player, fix a term if you need to, and download the full transcript. Rask AI writes it as an .srt file, which is a plain text file underneath, so moving it into a Word document or your notes takes one paste. That one audio to text pass gives you the transcript, the subtitles, and the timings together.
That is the whole flow - no software to install, no queue, no manual effort, and the transcription starts the moment the upload finishes. Rask AI works seamlessly in a browser and on mobile devices, and the free audio to text tier is enough to test it on a real recording before you pay for anything. If the AI audio transcription slips on a name or a term, edit it in place: the timings stay exactly where they were.

Why Transcribe Audio to Text with Rask AI

Accuracy you can verify

The speech to text technology handles accents, filler words, and natural speech patterns without choking when you transcribe audio, and it separates the voices from the background mix before it writes anything down. Poor audio quality is the one real limit: heavy background noise and two people on one microphone pull transcription accuracy down, so noisy audio usually needs a short pass in the editor. Run the audio transcription, read the text transcription next to the player, fix what needs fixing - everything stays editable, so you get accurate text either way, and transcription accuracy stops being something you have to take on trust.

Any length, one upload

Upload audio in the common formats - MP3 and WAV - plus the video file formats MP4 and MOV. Multiple formats in, one transcription out. One audio file can run up to five hours, so a long webinar or a full day of interviews goes in as a single upload instead of a dozen chopped pieces, and long recordings are processed in the background while you do something else.

Speakers, timings, and translation

The audio transcription is split by speaker and timestamped segment by segment, so you can click a line and jump straight to that moment. Rask AI tells different speakers apart automatically and you rename them in the editor. From there you can translate transcripts into other languages, generate subtitles, or dub the whole recording with a cloned voice . The AI audio pipeline and the audio to text step are the same one, and high accuracy on the transcript is what makes all of that worth doing.

Best Practices: Where an Audio to Text Converter Pays Off

Business

Record meetings in whatever tool you already use, then let AI do the notes. Meeting recordings become searchable transcripts with action items you can actually find, and business meetings stop eating an extra hour of write-up. Text is far cheaper to store than audio, which makes it cost effective to transcribe audio from every call - and easy sharing means a colleague reads in two minutes what took an hour to say, or opens the shared project themselves.

Content Creation

Turn a podcast episode, an interview, or a pile of voice notes into a text file you can publish - the audio to text tool does not care which of them you upload. One audio recording gives you show notes, a newsletter, quotes, and a week of social posts - content creation gets much faster when the raw material is already written down. Add subtitles on top and the same episode works as video.

Education and Research

Convert audio from lectures, seminars, and field interviews into written text students can read, search, and annotate. Transcribe audio once and the material works for a reader as well as a listener, free of the need to sit through the recording twice. Transcripts improve accessibility for people who are deaf or hard of hearing, and support for 135+ spoken languages means international students follow the material in their own. For researchers, a full text transcription is the difference between listening again and running a quick search.

Stellar reviews

4.7 / 5 · 270 reviews on G2 & Product Hunt
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THE BEST AI video translation tool

The user interface is exceptionally intuitive, making the entire process ultra-easy for me. I've particularly appreciated Rask's proficiency in handling technical and specialized language commonly found in online courses. The translations consistently maintain accuracy and a natural tone.

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Fausto M.
Content creator
Small-Business
5
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5

Probably the best AI dubbing software on the market right now

It has an easy to use interface where both the original language and the translation can be edited. And the clone voices are quite good. In totality a top tool right now in the market. I'm the host of a local podcast that we would like to internationalize - translating it to several languages and sending it out again using the original voices, now cloned and speaking English.

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Bent D.
Board Member
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Media
5
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5

Great AI software for delivering content worldwide

The most helpful feature is to edit the translated transcript and being able to redub the video. The voice cloning feature is very accurate - that is great for delivering the content of a known guest, that people know how their voice sounds. Now they recognize the voice and understand the message.

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Ricardo R.
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5
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5

A great discovery that saved a lot of work!

The easy straightforward way to use it, the fact to be able to edit the translated text before rendering the final versions - we work with videos that need compliance approval for the text, so for us this is an important feature, together with the fact that the voice cloning is very well achieved. It makes it easier for us to respond quickly to client changes.

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Sebastiaan V.
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Media
5
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5

Not perfect, but almost...

You don't need any previous knowledge, you just sign up and start translating and dubbing your videos. The possibility to correct the translations helps to get exceptional results. I have done a project of about 30 videos of about 25 minutes each in 2 languages and the results were excellent.

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Alexander M.
CEO
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Media
4
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5

Amazing

I used Rask to translate 18 episodes of a podcast from the original Italian. I cloned my own voice and used library voices for all the other people involved. The result is amazing. My cloned voice sounds like my own voice (with a better accent). Rask allowed me to translate an Italian podcast into English in just 3 days.

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Federica C.
Podcaster
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Media
4
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5

AI-based video translation service that breaks down language barriers

The most impressive feature is the AI's ability to maintain the speaker's original voice while translating the content. This is a game-changer for online educators like myself looking to reach a global audience. French being my first language, it was difficult for me to reach students from UK, US, etc. But with this tool, I have access to a bigger market.

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Christian L.
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Education
4
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5

Fantastic translation tool with some room for improvement

I'm a Canadian YouTuber who's always wanted to translate my content to the french language. I've used it on a couple of my videos to date, and have to say I'm quite impressed with the cloned voice feature. Planning on using it for 3-4 videos per month to bring my french channel back to life without a huge time commitment.

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Griffin M.
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Media

More Benefits of Audio to Text Conversion

No matter why you hit record, an audio to text conversion makes that recording usable. Search it, quote it, translate it, publish it - all the things you simply cannot do with a sound wave. The free tier covers the first files, so you can transcribe audio to text today and see what changes. Free audio to text has limits, but they are enough to judge the result on your own recording.

Everything becomes searchable

A transcript turns an hour of speech into something you can scan in a minute. The editor has a search box, so you find the exact quote and drop it into a Word document or a report. That is the whole point of text conversion: saving time you used to spend rewinding.

Faster than any manual transcription

Manual transcription of one hour of audio takes four to six hours of typing, and you still have to convert audio into a usable document afterwards. A transcription service with human typists costs money and days. AI transcription software does the same job in minutes: you transcribe audio to text, skim it, and spend a few minutes on a final check. The manual effort drops to almost nothing, and the cost of an hour of audio transcription drops with it. Transcribe once, transcribe again after an edit - the price is the minutes, not the labour.

Reach people the audio cannot

Text makes your content work for everyone: listeners with hearing impairments, people in a noisy commute, and non-native speakers who read better than they listen. Convert audio to text once, translate it into multiple languages, and one recording speaks to an audience it never had before. Convert audio from a single webinar and you can publish it in five markets. Convert speech to text for a webinar and you get the subtitles for the video version too - one audio to text converter instead of three separate tools.

One recording, more than one output

Five exports come out of a single project: the video, the video with subtitles, the audio track, the video with lip-sync, and the transcript as an .srt file. Download the transcript as often as you like - the audio to text conversion is done once and stays in your project, so nothing is stuck inside an audio file any more.

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