Audio to text, without the software
Voice memo, interview recording, lecture, a file someone sent you. Upload it and read it.
Recording something is easy and going back through it is not. A forty minute interview holds maybe four usable quotes, and finding them means listening to the whole thing again with a finger on the scrub bar. Drop takes the file straight from your machine, converts speech to text, and then does the part that most transcription tools skip: it tells you what was said, in plain sentences, and hands you the lines worth quoting.
Steps
Step 1
Pick the file or the link
Use Upload audio or video on the homepage card, or drag the file straight onto the card. If the audio already lives at a public URL, paste that instead. MP3, WAV and M4A are the common cases.
Step 2
Watch the upload finish
Large files upload in resumable chunks with a progress bar, so a slow connection does not mean starting over.
Step 3
Read the transcript and the compression
You get the verbatim text plus the core ideas, which is usually the part you actually wanted.
What you get
- A verbatim transcript you can download as plain text
- Core ideas written as sentences a person would write
- A remember list of the concrete points
- Pull quotes ready for the card studio
- Post drafts if the recording is going to become content
Questions
- Which audio formats are supported?
- The common ones, including MP3, WAV, M4A and AAC. If a browser can play it, it will almost certainly go through.
- How big a file can I upload?
- Long recordings are fine. Uploads are chunked and resumable, and the transcription job window is built for multi hour audio.
- Do I need an account?
- No account and no extension. Pay as you go at one credit per minute, and credits never expire.
- Can it transcribe a language other than English?
- Yes. The spoken language is detected and the transcript comes back in that language.