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Video to Audio Extractor

Extract Audio from Video

Hand over a video file, extract audio from video inside the page, and download the result as MP3 or WAV.

  • No plugin and no install step
  • MP3 or WAV, your call
  • Takes MP4, MOV, MKV, and WEBM
  • Works from a phone in the field
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What Extracting Audio from Video Means

One page to extract audio from video and return it in whichever format the next step needs.

A video file carries a picture stream and a sound track side by side, which is why the only way to reuse the words inside it is to extract audio from video and keep the result as a file of its own. The result is not locked to one format: lossless WAV when the track still has to be edited, MP3 when it only has to be heard.
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Rescuing sound from a dead recorder

A field recorder quits halfway through, or a camera's audio input stops passing signal, and nobody notices until the shoot is over. The picture file is usually fine, and the sound it captured is still inside it. This is the moment people extract audio from video to salvage an interview that would otherwise be written off, without asking anyone to say it all again on the record.
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Salvaging audio from a damaged shoot
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Choosing between WAV and MP3

Ask what happens to the audio after it leaves the page. A track heading into a cutting session, a mix, or another round of edits should stay as WAV, because each re-encode costs a little detail. A clip that only has to be heard on a phone or dropped into a message is better as MP3, where the smaller file travels faster.
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Choosing WAV or MP3 on export
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Field work with one phone

Correspondents, wedding shooters, and site inspectors often carry one device and no laptop. Since the whole job happens on a web page, the phone that filmed the material can extract audio from video just as well, and the file goes back over the same connection that sent the pictures. Nothing is installed, and nobody waits until they are back at a desk.
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Extracting audio on a phone outdoors
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The container matters less than assumed

MP4 is the usual case, but MOV from a phone, MKV from a screen recorder, and WEBM pulled from a saved stream are all handled the same way. There is no need to convert the video first or hunt for a matching export preset. Bring the file in whatever shape the camera, the phone, or the editor left it in.
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Files ready to extract audio from video in several formats
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Dropping the pictures, keeping the sound

A blown exposure, a camera left rolling at a wall, or a lens that fogged over can ruin a shot while the audio underneath stays perfectly usable. Once the sound is separated, the unusable pictures stop mattering and the words can still reach a rough cut, a transcript, or a quote. The video can be deleted; the argument it recorded cannot be reshot.
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Audio kept from unusable footage
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One track, then subtitles

Audio pulled from a video rarely stops at listening. Run the same track through transcription and it returns with time stamps and speaker labels, which export as SRT or VTT for a player, or as plain text and Word when the words need to be read rather than heard. One extraction ends up feeding the subtitles, the article, and the accessibility pass.
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Turning extracted audio into captions

What the Extractor Handles

From video file to finished audio, here is what this page covers.

Add the video exactly as it is

MP4, MOV, MKV, and WEBM are read the same way, from a camera, a phone, and an editor.

Choose MP3 or WAV at export

When you extract audio from video, a 320 kbps MP3 stays small enough to send and a lossless WAV stays intact for editing.

Send the track on to a transcript

Transcribe it with time stamps and speaker labels, then save text, SRT, or VTT.

Hear the level you already mixed

Nothing is normalised on the way out, so the balance you heard on playback stays.

Find an old extraction again

Finished files stay in your history, so a track from last month needs no rerun.

Save it to whatever you are holding

The audio downloads to a laptop or straight to the phone, ready to send.

How to Extract Audio from Video

Three steps from a video file to an audio file you can use.

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Step 1

Hand over the video

Pick the file from the device or drag it in; the page reads the sound inside it.

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Step 2

Say what it is for

Choose MP3 for listeners, or WAV when an edit comes next.

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Take the track and go

Play it back, download the file, and drop the video once the pictures are no longer needed.

Who Comes to Extract Audio from Video

Four cases where the only usable copy of the sound sat inside a video.

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Camille Bouchard

Documentary Director

“One subject filmed her own diary on a handheld camera and sent only video. Lifting the audio out gave us narration without a return trip.”

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Devin MacLeod

Records Clerk

“Hearing recordings arrive as one long video and the minute-taker needs the spoken part. I separate the track, transcribe it with time stamps, and the index matches the clock.”

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Priya Sandhu

High School Teacher

“Students film interviews on their phones and the classroom laptops will not open the files. Extracting the sound as MP3 gives them something to hand in.”

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Nathan Ouellet

Mix Engineer

“Guests send video because it is easier than setting up a second recorder. I extract audio from video, keep the WAV for the mix, and the show stops sounding phoned in.”

Questions About Extracting Audio

Answers on formats, sources, and what comes back out of the video.