From the Voice Memos app to text.
Get a recording out of the Apple Voice Memos app and back as clean, speaker-labeled text — on any iPhone, in 90+ languages.
Exports to TXT · SRT · VTT · DOCX · PDF
Sample output
Here's what you get — speaker labels, timestamps, and multiple download formats. Try it with your own file.
The recording is sitting in the Voice Memos app; the text you need is not. Getting it out takes one step: open the memo, tap Share, and send the file to yourself — AirDrop to your Mac, save to Files, or email it. What arrives is an .m4a file, and that is exactly what you upload here. A few minutes later the memo is readable text instead of a waveform you have to scrub through.
Newer iPhones added a built-in transcript inside the Voice Memos app, but it is limited in ways that matter the moment you rely on it: it needs a recent device, supports a narrow set of languages, does not separate who said what, and is awkward to get out of the app as a clean document. TranscribeBee works from the audio file itself — any iPhone or iPad, 90+ languages, speakers labeled, exported as TXT, SRT, VTT, DOC, or PDF.
Voice memos are how ideas, meetings caught on the fly, lecture snippets, and reminders-to-self actually get captured. Each one transcribes as its own small job — no subscription for an app you use in bursts — and because memos are often personal, the file is processed once, never reviewed by a human, and automatically deleted after the transcript is ready.
The Share button in Voice Memos hands you an .m4a file. Upload it as-is — no conversion, no cable, no syncing workaround.
No recent-device requirement, 90+ languages instead of a handful, speaker labels for recorded conversations, and clean TXT, DOC, PDF, or SRT export.
Transcribe one memo this week and ten next month. Each file is billed on its own — no monthly plan for an app you use in bursts.
Open the Voice Memos app, select the recording, tap the Share button, and send it anywhere you can retrieve a file: AirDrop to a Mac, Save to Files, or email it to yourself. The shared file is an .m4a, ready to upload.
Yes. Apple’s in-app transcript requires newer devices and supported languages. TranscribeBee transcribes the exported audio file itself, so it works regardless of which iPhone or iPad made the recording.
Yes. When a memo captures more than one person — a meeting, an interview on the fly — the transcript comes back separated and labeled by speaker, which the built-in transcript does not do.
90+ languages. Pick the memo’s spoken language before running the transcription for the best accuracy.
From a ten-second reminder to a multi-hour recording — Voice Memos has no real limit and neither does this. Billing is $2 per audio hour with a $2 minimum per file.
$2 per hour. No subscription. Files are auto-deleted after processing.