Voice Message to Text, From Any Messenger
Save the voice message as a file, upload it here and read it as text in a minute. It works for long voice notes, for languages your phone doesn’t transcribe, and for messages you need to keep, quote or translate.
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Save the voice note, upload the file
Hi, quick update on the kitchen order…
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When the Built-in Transcript Isn’t Enough
Five-minute monologues from a client or a contractor are easier to answer when you can scan them, search them and copy the exact figure they mentioned.
Phone transcripts cover a limited set of languages. Here a voice note in Ukrainian, Tagalog or Arabic becomes text, and English if you add a translation.
Instructions, agreements or a relative’s stories stay as a text file you can store, print or attach, not just a bubble in a chat.
Voice Messages by App: Format and How to Save Them
What each messenger does on its own, and what file you get when you save the message. Checked against WhatsApp, Telegram and Apple help pages in November 2026.
- Voice notes are .opus files. WhatsApp can transcribe on the phone since November 2024, but only on your device and in a limited set of languages
- WhatsApp chat export
- Export chat with media attaches only the most recent files, so share older voice notes one by one
- Telegram
- Voice messages are OGG files with Opus audio. Built-in transcription is part of Telegram Premium, with a small quota for free accounts
- iMessage
- iPhone transcribes audio messages since iOS 17 in some languages. Tap Keep, or press and hold and choose Save to Voice Memos to keep the file
- iMessage audio files
- On a Mac, audio messages from Messages are .caf files and upload as they are; on iPhone, save the message to Voice Memos and share the M4A
- Voicemail
- A voicemail you can share or export from your phone app uploads like any other audio file
- What you get
- A transcript you can edit, search and export as TXT or SRT for free, or DOCX and PDF on paid plans
Before You Upload a Voice Message
Voice notes are short and casual. Three things keep the text clean.
Language
Pick the language for short notes
A 10-second note gives auto-detect little to work with. Choose the spoken language yourself, especially for mixed-language chats.
Several notes
Upload a batch together
A conversation split into many voice notes can be uploaded as several files at once, then read in order.
Translation
Add a language if you don’t speak it
Tick a language under “Also translate into” and the note comes back both as it was said and translated, from the Creator plan.
How to Convert a Voice Message to Text
From voice recording to text in three steps.
Share or export the note from WhatsApp or Telegram, or save an iMessage audio to Voice Memos first.
Drop the .opus, .ogg or .m4a file here from your phone or computer and choose the spoken language.
Read the text in the editor, copy it into your reply or export it as a file.