Free Speech to Text Converter Transcription Tool

How to automatically convert speech to text with Descript

1Start a recording session or upload voice audio
Create a project in Descript, select record, and choose your microphone input to start a recording session. Or upload a voice file to convert the audio to text.
2Talk and let the AI transcribe
As you speak into your mic, Descript’s speech-to-text software turns what you say into text in real time. Don’t worry about filler words or mistakes; Descript makes it easy to find and remove those from both the generated text and recorded audio.
3Edit and export your text
Enter Correct mode (press the C key) to edit, apply formatting, highlight sections, and leave comments on your speech-to-text transcript. Filler words will be highlighted, which you can remove by right clicking to remove some or all instances. When ready, export your text as HTML, Markdown, Plain text, Word file, or Rich Text format.

A free speech-to-text converter like no other

Fast, accurate AI transcription that learns how you talk
Expand Descript’s online voice recognition powers with an expandable transcription glossary to recognize hard-to-translate words like names and jargon.
Voice to text meets video editor
Record yourself talking and turn it into text, audio, and video that’s ready to edit in Descript’s timeline. You can format, search, highlight, and other actions you’d perform in a Google Doc, while taking advantage of features like text-to-speech, captions, and more.
22+ supported languages
Go from speech to text in over 22 different languages, plus English. Transcribe audio in French, Spanish, Italian, German and other languages from around the world. Finnish? Oh we’re just getting started.

More than just a voice to text converter

Descript is an AI-powered audio and video editing tool that lets you edit podcasts and videos like a doc.

Subtitles & captions
Creation captioned videos and subtitle files from the transcript generated when you convert speech into text with Descript.
Overdub
Type with your voice or turn what you type into your voice with AI-powered voice cloning and Overdub.
Publishing
Host your speech-to-text files in Descript including both the transcript and the original voice recording.
Speak as you naturally would — don’t worry about slipping up or saying “um”. Remove all filler words in one go with just a couple of clicks.
Remove filler words

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Incredible features

"Descript is an amazing timeline and text-based editor with some incredible features.I love the timeline editor and the ability to do multi-track editing very quickly."

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