Voice note to text, in your own language

Typing in an Indian script on a phone is slow, and most voice typing keyboards expect you to pick the language first and speak in short bursts. This tool takes a whole voice note, the kind you already send on WhatsApp, and turns it into text you can copy into a message, a sheet or a report.

Leave the language on Auto-detect if you are not sure, or pick it yourself for the best result. If you need the meaning in English, press Translate to English after the transcript appears.

How to use it

1. Pick the language that is spoken, or leave it on Auto-detect.
2. Press Record and speak, or Choose audio file to open a voice note you saved. Recording stops by itself after 30 seconds.
3. Press Convert to text. The text appears in the box below, ready to copy.
4. Need it in English? Press Translate to English. The same recording is translated.

Getting a clean transcript

• Pick the language when you know it. Auto-detect works, but closely related languages such as Hindi and Marathi can be confused on a short clip.
• Hold the phone about a hand's width from your mouth and record away from traffic, fans and TV.
• One person at a time. Two people talking over each other come out as one jumbled line.
• Say numbers the way you would say them to a colleague: "twenty-five boxes" is clearer than a string of digits.

What the text looks like

कल सुबह दस बजे तक माल पहुँच जाएगा।

“The goods will arrive by ten tomorrow morning.”