Audio to Text Transcription
Turn audio and video into accurate text with Whisper AI. Free, no signup, and processed on our own hardware — never sent to big-tech clouds.
Drop an audio or video file here or click to choose
How to transcribe audio to text
- Drop an audio or video file into the box above, or click to browse your device.
- Check the detected length and your size limit, then click Transcribe.
- Your file uploads with a progress bar, then joins the queue on our transcription server.
- Watch the honest status: your position in the queue, then processing progress.
- When it finishes, read the transcript, copy it, or download it as plain text (TXT) or subtitles (SRT).
Why use ZillaKit's free audio to text transcription?
This is a genuinely free audio to text transcription tool with no signup required — anonymous users can transcribe files up to 25 MB straight away. It uses OpenAI's Whisper speech-recognition model, which handles accents, background noise and many languages far better than old-fashioned dictation software. The big difference from other free transcription sites is where your file goes: nowhere except our own server. We run Whisper on hardware we own and operate, so your recordings are never handed to a big-tech cloud, never used to train anyone's model, and are deleted within 24 hours — usually the instant your transcript is ready. You get clean, punctuated text plus ready-to-use SRT subtitles for videos, with no watermark and no email wall. Because everything runs on a single machine, one job is processed at a time; free files queue behind Premium files, so the tool is honest about wait times instead of pretending everything is instant. For most short clips the whole thing — upload, queue and transcription — takes a couple of minutes. Sign in free to lift the limit to 100 MB, or go Premium for files up to four hours long and priority in the queue.
FAQ
Is audio to text transcription really free with no signup?
Yes. Anonymous visitors can transcribe files up to 25 MB with no account and no email. Creating a free account raises the limit to 100 MB and 10 minutes per file. There is no watermark and no credit card required.
Where are my files processed — are they sent to a big-tech cloud?
No. Transcription runs on our own server hardware using the Whisper model. Your file is never uploaded to Google, Amazon, Microsoft, OpenAI or any third-party cloud, and it is not used to train any model. Files are automatically deleted within 24 hours, usually as soon as your transcript is finished.
How long can my audio or video be?
Free and anonymous users can transcribe clips up to 10 minutes long. Premium accounts can transcribe files up to 4 hours and their jobs jump ahead of free jobs in the queue. If your file is longer than your limit, we tell you up front instead of failing halfway.
Why do I sometimes wait in a queue?
Because we run on our own single machine rather than a giant cloud, transcription happens one job at a time. Free files queue behind Premium files. We show your real position in the queue and the processing progress so you always know what is happening.
What formats can I upload and download?
You can upload common audio and video formats including MP3, WAV, M4A, OGG, FLAC, MP4, MOV, WebM and MKV. We extract the audio automatically. You can download the result as plain text (TXT), subtitles (SRT) for adding captions to videos, or structured JSON.
Which languages does it support?
The Whisper model is multilingual and automatically detects the spoken language, so it works with dozens of languages beyond English, including transcribing non-English speech into that language's text.