How to Transcribe a Voice Memo

Recording a voice memo is a quick way to capture thoughts on the go. However, reviewing audio notes later can be tedious. Using speech-to-text allows you to convert those thoughts into a readable text document that you can easily scan, edit, and share.

Once you turn your audio to text, you no longer have to listen to the entire recording just to find one specific detail.

If you instead want to generate spoken narration from written text for short-form content, you should review our guide on text-to-speech for social media.

Before you transcribe audio with Konthora, you must save the recording as a file on your device. Konthora accepts standard MP3, WAV, M4A, and AAC audio files, which covers the default outputs of most phone recording apps.

Ensure your file fits within the platform limits. The maximum upload size is 100 MB, and the maximum media duration is 10 minutes. Longer recordings must be manually divided into shorter files before upload.

Keep in mind that audio transcription accuracy relies on the clarity of your voice. Audio recorded in a quiet environment will produce a more accurate transcript than audio recorded in a loud, busy space.

Applying timestamps affects how the text is structured on the page. Konthora provides sentence, paragraph, and word-level timestamp modes.

For voice memos, paragraph mode is typically the best choice because it groups your thoughts into readable blocks. Sentence mode places a timestamp on every line, which can make a document look cluttered unless you specifically need to cross-reference the text with the exact second in the audio file.

After the text is generated, you need to select an export format.

For most voice memo workflows, TXT is the best format because it provides a plain text document that is easy to copy, paste, and format. If you need timed captions for a project, you can export as SRT or VTT. A JSON file is also available for structured programmatic access.