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Transcribe French audio without uploading anything

Everything runs inside your browser. Your file never reaches a server — open DevTools and check the Network tab yourself.

No uploadNo sign-upNo time limitFree
Audio language: EnglishItalianGermanSpanishFrenchDutchPortugueseTurkishSwedishHebrewRussian
Drop a French audio or video file here
or click to choose — MP3, M4A, WAV, MP4, MOV, WebM…
Works with audio and video. Large files are fine — nothing is uploaded, so there is no size limit.
This page transcribes French audio.

Transcript

Audio length – Processing time – Real-time factor – Data sent 0 KB
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Pick a file and the transcript appears here.You can click the text to correct it.
Why "no upload" is verifiable This is not a promise, it is a property of the architecture: there is no upload endpoint. Open your browser DevTools, go to the Network tab, and transcribe a file — you will see the model being downloaded, and no request carrying your audio.

How this differs from other free transcription services

What matters
Typical free service
This tool
What mattersYour file
Typical free serviceUploaded to the provider’s servers
This toolNever leaves your device
What mattersFree length
Typical free serviceUsually capped, often 10–30 minutes
This toolNo limit
What mattersFile size
Typical free serviceTypically around 1 GB
This toolNo limit
What mattersAccount
Typical free serviceUsually required
This toolNot required
What mattersOffline use
Typical free serviceNot possible
This toolWorks from the second visit on
What mattersAccuracy
Typical free serviceLarge cloud model — 4.3% word error rate
This toolOn-device model — 8.3% word error rate
See the measurements for all nine languages

Accuracy depends on your material. This is enough for a usable first draft of a recording; minutes you intend to circulate still need a human pass.

How it works

01 Pick a file Pick a file. The browser decodes it to 16 kHz mono audio locally.
02 Processed on your device On the first visit the speech model is downloaded once (about 156 MB) and cached. Later visits load it from the cache with zero download.
03 Edit and export Recognition runs in WebAssembly on your own machine. Text appears as it is recognised.

What people use it for

Voice memosZoom recordingsVideo filesDictaphone recordingsInterviews

Questions

Is there a file size or length limit?

No. The file is processed on your device, so the only limit is your own memory. A 33-minute file uses roughly 450 MB of RAM.

How accurate is it?

On clean read speech in French this tool scores 8.3% word error rate, against 4.3% for Whisper large-v3 running in the cloud, measured on the same audio. Real recordings are harder than a test set: expect a usable first draft that still needs a human pass for names and technical terms.

Does it work offline?

After the first visit, yes — the model is cached in your browser.

Can I transcribe other languages?

Each page handles exactly one language, because the speech model for that language is downloaded to your browser. To transcribe another language, open that language’s page from the links at the top — no setting to change here.