About Audio2Text.io

What this site is

Audio2Text.io is a small set of free, browser-based tools for working with speech and audio. One group turns what you say into editable text, including translating an English sentence into another language as you speak. A second group converts audio files between common formats. Everything runs as an ordinary web page, with no account, no sign-up, and nothing to install.

The whole point is speed and honesty: open a page, do the one job it is built for, and move on. Each tool stays deliberately narrow so it does that job well rather than doing many jobs poorly.

Who runs it

I am Ash S., and I build and maintain these pages. I am the same name you see on the byline of each guide, because the person who writes the instructions is the person who tests the tool. When something on the site changes, I rewrite the guidance to match, so what you read is what the tool actually does today.

How each page is tested

Before a page goes live I use it the way you would. For the speech tools that means dictating and proofreading the same passages across phones, laptops, and accents, at different distances from the microphone and different noise levels, and checking any non-English output by eye. For the converter tools it means running real files through and confirming the output plays correctly at the size and quality the page promises.

Numbers and claims on the site trace to named, linked sources, and a page only ships when it has been through that hands-on pass.

How the tools work, in plain terms

The speech tools build on the speech features your browser already includes to turn sound into words, so accuracy and language support follow whatever your browser and device offer. The file converters run completely on your own machine, within the browser itself, so a file you convert is never uploaded anywhere. There is fuller detail, including exactly where your spoken audio goes, in the privacy policy below.

Because the tools lean on what modern browsers can already do, they are fast and free, but they also inherit browser limits: a feature your browser does not support will not appear, and the speech tools work best in browsers with strong speech support.

Contact

The fastest way to reach me is by email at [email protected]. I read everything that comes in, and feedback from real use is what decides what gets fixed or built next.

Good things to write about

A few examples of messages that genuinely help:

• Bug reports. Tell me what you did, what you expected, and what happened instead, plus your browser and device. That detail is usually enough for me to reproduce and fix it.
• Feature requests. If a tool is missing a format, a language, or an option you need, say so. A lot of the page lineup started as a request.
• Privacy questions. If you want to know exactly how a tool handles your data, ask. The short version is in the privacy policy below, and I am happy to go deeper.
• Corrections. If something in a guide is out of date or wrong, point it out and I will check the tool and update the page.

What to expect

This is a small operation, so replies are not instant, but I do answer. I cannot recover a transcript or a file for you, because nothing you make here is stored on my side once you close the tab, so always copy or download anything you want to keep before you leave.

Privacy Policy

Effective date: 14 June 2026. This section explains, in plain language, exactly what happens to your audio, your files, and your text when you use the tools here. The short version: there is no account, your audio and your text never leave your device for us to see, and we keep nothing of yours on a server. To keep the tools free, the site may show standard third-party ads and use privacy-light analytics, and both are kept strictly apart from anything you record, type, or convert. The one thing worth reading carefully is how the speech tools handle audio, because part of that step happens inside your browser, not on this site.

The speech and translation tools

When you press the microphone to dictate or to translate as you speak, the speech recognition is performed by the voice capability your browser provides, not by anything this site runs. On a lot of browsers that capability is cloud-based, which means the spoken sound is forwarded to the organisation that makes your browser so it can be returned as text. That exchange is strictly between you, your browser, and whoever supplies it.

This site plays no part in it: we do not receive, record, or hold a copy of your audio, and nothing is uploaded on our side. Because your own browser may forward the sound to its provider, apply the same judgement you would give any cloud service before dictating anything sensitive, and review your browser's settings to see how it treats speech.

The file converter tools

The audio file converters are different. They do all of their work entirely inside your browser, on your own device. Your file is never uploaded to us or to anyone else, and it never leaves your computer or phone. When you close the tab, nothing of the file remains anywhere outside your own device.

What we store

We do not store your audio, your files, or your transcripts on any server, because there is no server-side account or database tied to you. The only things saved are kept by your own browser, on your own device: your light or dark theme choice, and, on the dictation page, a working copy of your current draft so a refresh does not lose it. You can clear both at any time by clearing your browser's site data, and they never reach us.

What we do not do

No accounts, no sign-up, and no passwords. We never upload, store, sell, or rent your audio, your files, or your transcripts, because they stay on your own device and there is nothing of that kind for us to collect. Any advertising or measurement the site uses is kept completely separate from the content you record, type, or convert, and is never linked back to it. The tools are free to use.

Advertising and analytics

To keep the tools free, this site may show advertising from third-party networks, including Google AdSense, and may use privacy-light analytics to see which pages are useful. These services can set or read cookies on your device and may use information such as your approximate location, device, and prior visits to this and other sites to show and measure ads. Google's use of advertising cookies is described in Google's advertising policies, and you can turn off personalised ads at any time in your Google Ads settings. None of this advertising or analytics ever receives the audio, files, or text you process with the tools.

Privacy questions

If anything here is unclear, or you want to know how a specific tool handles your data, write to [email protected] or use the contact details above. If this policy ever changes in a way that affects what is collected, the effective date above will change with it.