WhatsApp voice note to text

Read any voice note as text, in Urdu, Hindi or English.

Drop a WhatsApp voice message (or any audio) and get the words as text in seconds. The voice note is sent to our speech service only to write the text and is not stored. Free, no limit.

Choose or drop a voice noteWhatsApp .opus / .ogg, .m4a, .mp3, .wav or .aac

Spoken language Text in

On your phone

Open this page once in Chrome and choose Add to Home screen (Android).
In WhatsApp, press and hold a voice note, tap Share, then pick BolCaps.
The text appears here. On iPhone: Share the voice note to Files, then choose it above.

How to turn a voice note into text

Step by step

Choose the voice note or audio file: WhatsApp .opus or .ogg, .m4a, .mp3, .wav or .aac all work.

Set the spoken language. Picking it yourself is more accurate than letting the tool guess, especially for Urdu and Hindi.

Choose whether you want the text in the same language or translated to English, then press Turn into text.

Copy the text or download it as a .txt file. For Urdu you can switch to Roman Urdu in one tap.

Getting better results

Clear speech with little background noise is transcribed best. If a recording is noisy, run it through Clean audio first.

Many people mix English into Urdu or Hindi. Read the text once and correct names and English words before you share it.

Long recordings work, but take longer on older phones. A one-minute voice note usually finishes in seconds on a laptop.

Using it from WhatsApp on Android

Open this page once in Chrome and choose Add to Home screen. After that, press and hold any voice note in WhatsApp, tap Share and pick BolCaps. The text appears here without saving the file first. On iPhone, share the voice note to Files and choose it above.

Common questions

Is my voice note uploaded? No. The recording is sent to our speech service only to write the text, and it is not stored.

Which languages work? Urdu, Hindi and English, plus more than 90 other languages supported by the Whisper speech model, including Punjabi, Arabic, Bengali and Pashto, with varying accuracy.

Can I make captions for a video instead? Yes. For video, use the Caption studio, which adds timing and animated styles. See also how to add Urdu captions to Reels and Shorts.