WhatsApp voice note to text

On iPhone

1. Touch and hold the voice message, then tap Forward.
2. Tap the share button at the bottom right and choose Save to Files.
3. Open this page in Chrome on your phone, or move the file to your computer.

On Android

1. Touch and hold the voice message, then tap the share button.
2. Save it to your files, or send it to yourself by email.
3. Voice notes you received are also in your phone storage, in the WhatsApp Media folder under WhatsApp Voice Notes, as .opus files.

Every voice note in a chat

Open the chat, tap its name, then Export Chat (on Android: the three dots, More, Export chat) and choose to include media. Drop the .zip file here and every voice note in it is turned into text, in order. Our chat viewer opens the same file to read the whole conversation.

Yes, for one message at a time and in some languages. Turn it on in WhatsApp under Settings, Chats, Voice message transcripts, then touch and hold a voice message and tap Transcribe. On iPhone it needs Siri turned on. On Android it has fewer languages.

Use this tool when your language is not there, when you want the text in English, or when you have a whole chat of voice notes to turn into text at once.

The speech model runs in your browser. The first time you use it, your browser downloads it (about 77 MB, or 250 MB for High accuracy) and keeps it for next time. Your voice notes are turned into text on your own device and are never sent to us or anyone else.

It uses Whisper, an open speech model that understands about 100 languages. It is very good with clear speech and makes more mistakes with background noise, strong accents or several people talking, so check names and numbers before you rely on them.