Transcribe Audio Without the Wait
Recordings in, clean punctuated text out — language detected automatically
Upload an interview, lecture or rambling voice memo and get readable text back in moments. Fish Voice transcription handles multiple languages and mixed accents, straight in your browser.
Premium: 1 credit per minute of audio
What Is Speech to Text?
An hour of audio is an hour of listening — unless a machine reads it for you. Speech to text does exactly that: it listens to a recording or your live microphone, works out which words were said and in what language, and hands you the whole thing as editable, searchable text. Interviews, meetings, voice memos and lectures all collapse into documents you can skim instead of scrub.
The models behind it are trained on thousands of accents and speaking styles, so messy real-world audio is where they shine, not struggle. On Fish Voice the whole thing is a browser tab: record or drop a file, and the transcript is ready before you've switched windows — no installs, no account for the free tier.
Stop Typing What Someone Already Said
Manual transcription is the tax you pay for recording — AI retires it
Extremely Time-Consuming
The 4-to-1 rule of manual transcription: one hour of tape costs you four hours of pedal-pressing and typing.
Expensive Human Transcription
Human transcription services solve the time problem and create a money problem — plus a two-day wait.
Missed Details
Your own shorthand notes lose the exact phrasing that made the quote worth keeping.
Locked-Away Content
And audio nobody transcribed is audio nobody can search, quote, cite or rank.
From Tape to Text Before Your Coffee's Poured
Fish Voice turns the recording into clean, quotable text in seconds — free daily, automatic language detection, nothing to install. The transcript becomes the product: searchable meeting notes, publishable show notes, quotable interviews, all from audio you already had.
Three Steps to a Transcript
From audio file to editable text in one pass
Record or Upload
Hit record and talk into the page, or upload a file — MP3, WAV, M4A and WEBM all work.
AI Transcription
The model identifies the language on its own and transcribes with punctuation — no config screens to fight.
Copy & Use
Copy the text with one click or save it as a .txt file for editing, sharing or publishing.
Built for Real-World Audio
Why teams stop paying for transcription
High Accuracy
Tuned on messy conversations — crosstalk, filler words, mid-sentence corrections — not studio-perfect reads.
Auto Language Detection
Dozens of languages recognized from the audio itself; mixed-language recordings come out clean.
Record or Upload
Live mic or existing file — the workflow is identical either way.
Fast Results
An hour-long file routinely finishes in under a minute, phone included.
Free Every Day
1 free transcription daily, 3 with a free account; premium scales with credits for heavier loads.
Private by Design
Audio lives just long enough to become text, then it's gone — no long-term storage.
Who Uses Speech to Text?
What people actually transcribe here
Meetings & Interviews
The recording becomes minutes, action items become findable, and nobody argues about who said what.
Video Captions
Raw transcript in hand, captioning a video becomes a 10-minute edit instead of a typing marathon.
Podcast Transcripts
Publish episode transcripts for reach, accessibility, and search engines that can't listen.
Voice Notes
Talk through an idea on a walk; come back to a document you can actually edit.
Lectures & Classes
Record the lecture, revisit the transcript, and stop losing content to handwriting speed.
Journalism
Pull exact quotes without scrubbing tape — every word attributable, every sentence searchable.
What Real Users Say
Why people stopped transcribing by hand
“Interview transcripts used to be my Sunday-evening punishment. Now they're done before the coffee is, and our show notes actually ship on time.”
“Half my interviews drift between two languages. The auto-detection handles it without me flagging anything — the quotes come out clean.”
“My lecture recordings finally became something I can study from — searchable, skimmable, and in my notes app the same afternoon.”
Transcription Questions
Before you feed it your first file
- What is speech to text?
It's automatic speech recognition in your browser: the AI listens to a recording or your microphone, matches the sounds to words, and produces a written transcript with punctuation. One hour of audio becomes a text document in about a minute — no typing involved on your end.
- What does the free tier include?
One free transcription a day without an account — three a day once you sign up. Premium runs on credits (1 per minute of audio) with longer file support.
- Which files can I feed it?
MP3, WAV, M4A and WEBM up to 25MB, or record straight into the page with your mic — no separate recorder app needed.
- Do I have to set the language?
No. The model detects the spoken language automatically — English, Chinese, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Korean and dozens more.
- How reliable is the output?
Clear recordings transcribe impressively well. Heavy background noise, crosstalk or extreme accents will still cost some accuracy — a quiet source is worth more than any setting.
- Can I export the transcript?
One click to clipboard, one click to a .txt download — then it's yours to edit, share or publish wherever.
- What happens to my audio?
It's processed just long enough to produce your transcript. Nothing is stored long-term on our servers.
- Speech to text vs voice to text — same thing?
Practically: yes. 'Voice to text' usually means live dictation from a microphone; 'speech to text' usually means transcribing recordings. Fish Voice handles both through the same tool.
Let the Tape Type Itself
Record or upload, and read the transcript instead of re-listening — free every day, no signup to start.
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