Germany-based. GDPR-Compliant by design.Turn recordings into text
Drop audio or video files into the Dictāta desktop app and get clean transcripts you can copy or export. Interviews, meetings, lectures, voice notes.
Limits and plans
- Where it runs
- Dictāta desktop app (macOS and Windows), Cloud mode
- Formats
- MP3, WAV, M4A, OGG, MP4, MOV, WebM
- Length per file
- up to 3 hours
- Free, Trial and Basic
- File minutes come out of your shared monthly minutes
- Pro
- Dictation is unlimited; files have a separate allowance of 30 hours a month
- Speaker labels
- Not provided
File Transcription is in beta. Local mode does not transcribe files; it is for live dictation.
What File Transcription does
Audio and video, up to 3 hours each
MP3, WAV, M4A, OGG, MP4, MOV and WebM. For video, the audio track is decoded on your computer and only audio is sent to Dictāta Cloud.
Queue many files
Drop or pick several files and add more while a run is going. Files are transcribed one after another, each in its own card with progress and time left.
Picks up where it stopped
If a part fails or you press Stop, Continue sends only the unfinished parts. An unfinished file also resumes after a restart for 24 hours.
Clean text by default
Hesitation sounds such as um and uh are removed and the speaker's words stay as spoken. Switch on Verbatim to keep every um, stutter and repeated word.
Long pauses are skipped
Pauses longer than 2 seconds are shortened to 1 second, and they do not count toward your minutes.
Export and History
Copy the text or download it as TXT, Word (.docx) or Markdown. With several files, download a ZIP or one combined file. Every transcript is saved to History, and adding the same recording again shows the existing transcript instead of sending it.
Frequently asked questions
MP3, WAV, M4A, OGG, MP4, MOV and WebM, up to 3 hours each.
No. Dictāta decodes the audio track of a video on your computer, and only the audio is sent to Dictāta Cloud for transcription.
No. Transcripts are plain text without speaker labels.
By the length of the audio that is sent. Pauses longer than 2 seconds are shortened, so they are not counted. Pro has dictation without a minute limit and a separate allowance of 30 hours of files per month.
No. File Transcription uses Dictāta Cloud. Local mode is for live dictation on your device.
Finished parts are kept. Press Continue and only the unfinished parts are sent. An unfinished file also resumes after a restart for 24 hours.