How to transcribe a M4A
Upload the M4A, get the text back in the language that was spoken — and in as many more as you need, with the timings.
M4A is what an iPhone and most voice memo apps produce. It is the format a recording arrives in when somebody pressed record on their phone during the meeting.
From a M4A to text, step by step
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Upload the file
Drag the M4A in. Nothing to convert first and nothing to install — the format is taken as it is.
- 2
We measure the speech
Before anything runs we measure how much of it is actually speech, and that is the price you see. A two-hour recording with forty minutes of talking costs forty minutes.
- 3
It is transcribed
Word by word, with the timings, in the language it was spoken in. Turn on speaker separation and each line says who said it.
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You get it back
Text, subtitles, or both. If you asked for other languages, they come out of that same listen and not from listening again.
What you get
- The transcript in the language spoken, with timings.
- SRT and VTT, ready to drop on a video.
- Any of the fourteen languages, out of that same audio.
- Who said what, if you asked for it.
What it costs
3 € per hour of speech
Transcription only. With translation it is 6 € per hour of speech. Speech, not file length: silence is not billed, so an hour of recording with twenty minutes of talking pays twenty minutes.
Up to 60 minutes and 200 MB per recording, three jobs running at a time. Longer than that, split it — or write to us and we will look at the case.
Questions people ask
- Do I have to convert the M4A first?
- No. That is the point of this page: the M4A goes in as it is. Converting it yourself would only lose quality on the way.
- What if the M4A is a video?
- Only the audio track is used. The picture is not looked at, not stored and not needed — you can upload the video as it came out of the camera.
- How good does the recording have to be?
- Good enough that a person listening would understand it. Room noise and a distant microphone cost accuracy in the transcript, and that mistake then travels into every language, which is why the recording matters more than anything else here.