AVI is the format of many older digital cameras, camcorder transfers and Windows video tools. If you only need the sound (a talk, a family recording, a song), this saves it as an MP3 that plays anywhere. The video is converted in your browser and stays on your device.
Your file never leaves your device. Nothing is uploaded.
Drop an audio or video file here
Drop an .avi up to 500MB. It's converted on your device.
Conversion runs on FFmpeg, compiled to WebAssembly, inside this browser tab. Licences and source
Older camera AVIs often carry uncompressed or low-bitrate audio. 128 kbps is plenty for speech and home videos, 192 kbps for music.
Nowhere. The converter runs inside your browser tab, so the file is read and converted on your own device and saved straight back to it. It is never uploaded to Wave or anyone else, and we never see its name or contents.
A few very old AVIs use audio codecs the converter doesn't include, or were damaged in transfer. You'll see a message saying the file can't be read; re-exporting it from a video editor usually fixes it.
Yes. Convert it to MP3, then click "Transcribe this file for free" to send the audio to the free Wave AI transcription tool.
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