Open the recorder, pick an input, and start talking. A record and transcribe session writes the words while you speak, so a usable transcript is waiting by the time you stop.
It captures sound through your device and turns the speech into text on the same screen.
Everything a record and transcribe session touches, from opening the microphone to exporting the transcript, sits on one page.
Laptop microphone, a USB mic, or a Bluetooth clip-on; the tool lists what your machine offers.
A moving input meter shows how loud you are, so a quiet take is caught early.
Speech becomes text during the session, so the page fills up instead of staying blank.
Pause a session, take a call, and pick the recording back up with the earlier text still on screen.
When two people share one microphone, the transcript can mark who said which part.
Copy it, send it out as a Word document or a subtitle file, or push on into notes and summaries.
From a silent page to text you can hand over, in three moves.
Plug in the mic you want, allow access when the browser asks, and watch the level meter settle.
Press record and carry on the conversation; the words collect on screen as the session runs.
Take the record and transcribe output away: copy the transcript, download it as a document or subtitle file, or continue into a summary.
Four people who needed text from sound that was not a file yet, in rooms they could not set up twice.
Dewi Anggraini
Journalist
“Notes used to eat my attention while I listened. The quotes are already typed when the interview ends, so I go straight to writing.”
Somchai Prasert
User Research Interviewer
“Participants freeze when they see someone typing. Letting the recorder listen means the transcript is ready for coding that afternoon.”
Mai Tran
Indie Podcast Producer
“Half my episodes start as me talking to nobody on a walk. A record and transcribe run turns those spoken drafts into text I can shape into a script.”
Farah Ismail
University Counsellor
“Students speak more freely when nobody is taking notes by hand. The session text appears on its own, and I review it afterwards.”
Practical answers about microphones, long sessions, and where the text goes afterwards.
