Translate Audio to Text
An audio-to-text tool that actually keeps the structure of what was said. ScribeToAny transcribes your recording in about 98 languages, labels who is speaking, and can turn non-English speech straight into English — all while leaving the segment boundaries and timestamps exactly where they were. That matters for interviews and meetings: you can still click a line and hear the original audio behind it, which is how you check a passage you could not otherwise follow.
- 134+ Translation languages
- AI transcription
- Encrypted; we never train AI on your files
Start with your recording
Drop an audio or video file here, or click to choose.
Already have subtitles? Translate them here
Upload an SRT, VTT, ASS or other subtitle file, translate it into 134+ languages with Google Translate, and download it with the original timings.
What you get: a real transcript
Unedited output from a 64-second interview with two speakers (synthetic voices), transcribed with speaker detection on. Only the first lines are shown.
SPEAKER_00 (0:00) Welcome back to Small Shop Stories. SPEAKER_00 (0:02) Today I'm talking to Maya, who runs a tiny bakery on the SPEAKER_00 (0:05) corner of Mill Street. SPEAKER_01 (0:07) Thanks for having me. SPEAKER_01 (0:08) It's really small, just two ovens and a counter. SPEAKER_00 (0:12) So how does a normal day start for you?
1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:01,680 [SPEAKER_00] Welcome back to Small Shop Stories. 2 00:00:02,160 --> 00:00:05,320 [SPEAKER_00] Today I'm talking to Maya, who runs a tiny bakery on the 3 00:00:05,320 --> 00:00:06,320 [SPEAKER_00] corner of Mill Street.
Checked against the script, 4 of 189 words differed — a 2.1% word error rate, counting "80" written for "eighty" as an error — and all 14 speaker turns were labelled correctly. This was clean speech; noisy recordings and people talking over each other score lower. See the full transcript and how it was scored
How it works
- 1
Upload
Drop in an audio or video file, or paste a link. All common formats are accepted.
- 2
Transcribe
AI transcribes with timestamps and optional speaker labels, usually in minutes.
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Translate
Open the transcript in Google Translate for any of 134+ languages, with every timestamp kept, or tick “Transcribe to English” before you start.
Why ScribeToAny
- Speech-to-text across ~98 languages, with non-English audio turned straight into English in a single pass.
- Translations keep the original timestamps, so a translated subtitle track lines up with the same audio.
- Each translation is saved as its own track next to the original transcript, and clicking any line replays the source audio.
Frequently asked questions
Can I check the transcript against the original audio?
Yes. Each transcript segment keeps the timestamp of the sentence it came from, so clicking it replays that exact moment of audio. If a passage looks wrong you can hear the source immediately instead of guessing — the same goes for a non-English recording you transcribed straight into English.
What languages does it handle?
It transcribes about 98 languages with automatic language detection, and can turn any of them into English in a single pass. When you translate a finished transcript, Simplified and Traditional Chinese are separate targets, as are Brazilian and European Portuguese, because the difference shows up in subtitles.
What audio formats are supported?
MP3, WAV, M4A, AAC, OGG, OPUS, WMA and more, plus any video container — the audio track is pulled out automatically. Noisy recordings can go through an optional AI restoration step first, which is worth turning on for phone calls and anything recorded in a café.
Does translating use my transcription minutes?
No. Minutes are counted when audio is transcribed. Translating a finished transcript happens in Google Translate and is free on every plan, so you can add as many languages as you need.
Transcribe to English or Translate — which gives better English from another language?
They work differently. Transcribe to English has the speech model write English directly in one pass — fast, but you never see the original-language text it heard. Transcribing in the original language first and then using Translate lets you correct that transcript before it's translated, so recognition errors don't carry into the English, and you keep both versions with the same timings. For anything you'll publish or quote, the second route is easier to check.