# Audio to Text Transcriber

> Transcribe speech in an audio file to text with Whisper, running on your own device.

Audio to Text Transcriber runs OpenAI's Whisper model inside your browser through WebGPU or WebAssembly. The audio is decoded locally, resampled to 16 kHz and processed in overlapping 30-second windows, producing a transcript with segment timings. The file is never uploaded, and after the model downloads once it works offline.

**URL:** https://convertto.tech/t/audio-to-text
**Category:** Audio & Video Tools (https://convertto.tech/c/media-tools)
**Privacy:** Runs entirely in the browser; no upload
**Cost:** Free, no sign-up
**Last updated:** 2026-08-01

## Key facts

- **Model:** Whisper, running on your own device
- **Offline:** Works with no network after the first model download
- **Privacy:** Runs entirely in your browser — nothing is uploaded
- **Cost:** Free, unlimited, no sign-up

## How to use

1. Select your audio file — the file stays on your device and is never uploaded.
2. Choose the model.
3. Choose the language.
4. Choose the output.
5. Set the characters per subtitle line.
6. Press Run, then download the result when it is ready.

## FAQ

### Is my recording uploaded?

No. The model is downloaded to your browser and the audio is processed there. This is the reason to use it for an interview, a medical consultation or a legal recording — the audio never leaves the device.

### Why is it slow the first time?

The model has to download before anything can run. After that it is cached by the browser and subsequent runs start immediately. Transcription itself is many times faster with WebGPU than on the CPU.

### Which model should I choose?

Base is the right default. Move to small or large-v3-turbo when the audio has accents, background noise, crosstalk or technical vocabulary — the accuracy difference on difficult recordings is large, and the cost is download size and time.

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- [Video to Text Transcriber](https://convertto.tech/t/video-to-text): Pull a transcript out of a video's speech without uploading the file.
- [AI Audio Transcription](https://convertto.tech/t/ai-audio-transcription): Run Whisper locally to turn speech into text, SRT, VTT or a timestamped transcript. Works offline after the first run.
- [AI Text to Speech](https://convertto.tech/t/ai-text-to-speech): Turn text into natural speech with a neural voice running in your browser, and download the audio as a WAV file.
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- [Audio Trimmer](https://convertto.tech/t/audio-trimmer): Cut a section out of an audio file, with optional fade in and out.
- [MP3 to M4A Converter](https://convertto.tech/t/mp3-to-m4a): Convert MP3 audio into an M4A (AAC) file — smaller at the same quality.