Transcribe Japanese Audio to Text
Upload Japanese meetings, lectures, interviews, or podcasts and get an accurate transcript in natural Japanese script — kanji and kana, not romaji. Free, no signup.
How it works
Upload your Japanese audio
Drop your file or click to browse. MP3, M4A, MP4, WAV, and MOV up to 5 minutes and 25 MB are free.
It detects Japanese automatically
Automatic language detection recognizes that the recording is in Japanese and transcribes it in Japanese — there's no language setting to pick.
Copy or download
Read the Japanese transcript on the page, copy it, or download it as TXT, SRT, VTT, PDF, or Word — all in the original script.
What people transcribe in Japanese
From a Tokyo client call to JLPT listening practice — upload the recording and read it back in written Japanese.
Business meetings
Turn Japanese-language meetings and client calls into notes you can review and share.
Lectures & seminars
Capture every point from a Japanese university lecture or training session.
Interviews & research
Get clean Japanese transcripts of interviews for research, journalism, or hiring.
Listening practice
Learning Japanese? Check what you heard against a written transcript of the audio.
Japanese podcasts
Pull quotes and references from Japanese podcast episodes as readable text.
Videos & vlogs
Transcribe the audio track of Japanese video content — MP4 and MOV files work too.
Frequently asked questions
Does the transcript come out in romaji or Japanese script?
Natural Japanese script — the standard mix of kanji, hiragana, and katakana, the way Japanese is actually written. We don't output romaji, but you can romanize the finished text afterwards with any conversion tool if you need it.
Can it translate Japanese audio into English?
No — this tool transcribes, it doesn't translate. Japanese audio comes out as a Japanese transcript. If you need an English version, download the text and run it through any translation tool afterwards.
How does it handle keigo and casual speech?
Formal Japanese (keigo) is transcribed the same way as casual speech — the model writes down what was said, polite endings and honorifics included. Business meetings and friendly conversations both come out as spoken.
How accurate is it with Japanese dialects and fast speakers?
Standard Japanese in clear audio transcribes well. Accuracy dips with strong regional dialects like Kansai-ben, very fast or overlapping speech, and noisy recordings — as with any speech recognition. A clean recording makes the biggest difference.
Does it label different speakers in a Japanese conversation?
Not reliably. Speaker separation works for many languages, but it isn't guaranteed for Japanese — when it isn't supported for the detected language, the transcript is delivered without speaker labels. You still get the full text of everything said.
Need more than 5 minutes?
A free account unlocks 25-minute files, AI summaries, and TXT, SRT, and VTT export — and your Japanese transcripts stay in Japanese script.
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