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Transcribe a fileWhat MP3 actually is
MP3 is a lossy audio codec from 1993 and still the most common one you will meet. It is the default for podcasts, music downloads, and older voice recorders. The compression throws away data you mostly cannot hear, which is why MP3 files are small.
MP3 is lossy, but speech survives the compression because the human voice sits in the frequency band MP3 keeps. A spoken-word MP3 at a normal bitrate transcribes as well as an uncompressed file from the same recording. Accuracy depends on the recording, not on the fact that it is an MP3. Background noise, heavy accents, and people talking over each other lower it far more than the codec ever does.
Where these files come from
Podcast episodes, music and audio downloads, and recordings from older voice recorders and dictation apps that still default to MP3.
- Podcasts
- Voice recorders
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- MP3 fileYour upload
- Audio decodedThe speech is what we transcribe
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- Type
- Audio codec
- Since
- 1993
- Compression
- Lossy
- What matters
- Recording quality
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