Audio Transcription

Quick audio transcription in Chrome: record your voice or add a file, get the text with timestamps, or open a YouTube transcript.

Audio transcription in your Chrome side panel Audio Transcription is a Chrome extension that lives in the side panel. It helps you transcribe audio to text without leaving the tab you are working in. Give it something to listen to, and a few minutes later a transcript with timestamps is ready to read, search and edit. Most of us keep recordings we never return to: a lecture saved on a phone, an hour-long interview, a stack of voice memos. Listening again takes as long as the recording itself. Reading takes minutes, and search finds the right quote in seconds. How to convert audio to text 1. Pin the extension and open the side panel from the toolbar. 2. Press record, drop in a file or open a YouTube video. 3. Keep working in other tabs while the audio transcription runs. 4. Copy the result or save it as a document or a subtitle file. Three ways to start 1️⃣ Talk. The panel doubles as a voice recorder with transcription. Press record, say what you need, finish, and your words appear as text. Recording keeps going even if you close the panel. 2️⃣ Drop a file. Recordings from a phone, a camera or a screen recorder all work, audio and video alike. Add several at once and they are processed one after another. 3️⃣ Open YouTube. When a video has captions, the extension reads them and shows a YouTube transcript in seconds. This does not use your minutes. What you can do with the text • Click a timestamp and the player jumps to that moment • Search one recording or your whole history • Fix a name or a term before you share it • Paste it into notes, docs or a ticket • Save it as subtitles with the timings already in place Who it helps ▸ Students who would rather read a lecture than replay it ▸ Journalists looking for an exact quote in a long conversation ▸ Researchers who need interview transcription for their notes ▸ Podcasters who want a podcast transcript for show notes and chapters ▸ Teams that keep a written record of recorded calls and webinars ▸ Anyone with a backlog of voice notes they never got to Accuracy and languages The AI transcription adds punctuation, keeps names readable and copes well with accents, so the draft needs few fixes. It understands dozens of languages, detects the language on its own and returns the text in the language that was spoken, without translation. Long recordings are split into parts, so an hour of audio finishes without locking up the tab. Video works the same way Video transcription follows the same path as audio. The sound track is extracted right in the browser, so a webinar or a recorded lecture becomes text with timestamps, and no separate converter is needed. Why keep it in the browser Most transcription software asks you to upload a file to a website, wait in a queue and download the result. Here the audio transcriber sits next to your work. You record and transcribe in one place, then paste the text wherever it is needed. There is no separate program to install and no API key to paste. Questions and answers How do I convert mp3 to text? Drag the file into the side panel. Processing starts on its own, and the text appears when it is done. How do I get a YouTube video transcript? Open the video and click the extension icon. If the video has captions, the text appears within seconds, and each line leads to its moment in the player. Can I transcribe video to text? Yes. A video file goes through the same steps as audio, and a few minutes later the text is ready. Does it work as speech to text for notes? Yes, for dictation into the panel. Record a thought, a draft or a plan, and it becomes text when you finish. It does not type live into other websites. Can I make subtitles? Yes. Save the result as an srt file and load it into a player or a video editor. Is the text accurate enough for work? It gives a solid word-for-word draft. Read it through before it goes into a report or a publication: no automatic tool replaces a careful human check. How many minutes are included? Audio transcription starts right after installing, with 30 minutes and no account. Signing in with Google raises the limit to 240 minutes a week. Privacy Uploaded audio stays on our server only while it is processed and is deleted within 24 hours. Details: https://audiotranscription.co/privacy Install Audio Transcription and turn your next recording into text you can use.