Voice Recorder
Record from your microphone and save it as MP3 or WAV.
Everything runs inside your browser. Your files never leave your device.
Drop your file here
.mp3, .wav, .m4a, .aac, .ogg, .oga, .opus, .flac, .webm, .weba · they stay on this device
Ask about Voice Recorder
Questions about what this tool does, which option to pick, or what it can and cannot handle.
This is the one part of the site that uses a server. The question you type here is sent to an AI provider to be answered — your files and whatever you put in the tool above are not, and the assistant cannot see them. Answers are generated and can be wrong; the tool itself is not guessing.
About the Voice Recorder
A recorder that runs in a browser tab and writes the file to your own machine, with no app to install and no account to make.
Press record, allow the microphone when the browser asks, speak, press stop. What arrives is whatever your browser produced — usually WebM with Opus inside it, which is excellent quality and awkward to send to anybody, because plenty of software still will not open it. This turns it into an MP3 that anything will play, or a WAV if it is going into an editor next.
Levelling is on by default and matters more here than anywhere else on this site. Laptop and phone microphones are held at arm's length in rooms with no acoustic treatment, and the result is almost always far too quiet. Levelling finds the loudest moment and scales the whole recording so that moment sits just below maximum, which brings a whispered voice note up to a normal listening level without you touching a slider. Turn it off if you are recording something where the quiet parts being quiet is the point.
The recording never leaves the tab. The browser writes it into memory here, the encoding happens here, and the file appears as a download from your own machine. There is no upload step to opt out of, and nothing to delete afterwards on somebody's server, because there is no server involved. Closing the tab discards it.
Two practical notes. The browser will ask for microphone permission, and it asks every visit unless you tell it to remember — that is the browser protecting you, not the site being awkward. And when the recording is done it lands in the file list like any dropped file, which means the other tools on this site apply to it: trim the false start off, lift the middle frequencies so the words carry, join several takes into one.
How to use it
- 1Press record and allow the microphone when your browser asks.
- 2Speak, then press stop. The recording appears in the file list.
- 3Leave the levelling on unless quiet passages matter, and choose MP3 or WAV.
- 4Save it, then trim or equalise it with the other tools if it needs work.
Questions
- Where does the recording go?
- Into this browser tab's memory and nowhere else. It is encoded here and handed to you as a download. Nothing is transmitted, and closing the tab discards it — so save it before you close the page.
- Why does it ask for microphone permission every time?
- Because your browser treats microphone access as a per-visit decision unless you tell it to remember this site. That is a protection working correctly. You can make it permanent from the icon in the address bar.
- How long can I record?
- Long enough for meetings and interviews. The recording is held in memory, so the ceiling is your device's RAM rather than a time limit we impose; an hour of speech is comfortable on any modern machine.
- Can I record what is playing on my computer rather than my voice?
- Not with this. It asks the browser for a microphone, and browsers deliberately keep system audio behind a separate permission that is designed for screen sharing. Recording system audio needs a desktop application.