WAV is uncompressed: a one-hour field recorder or studio file can be 600MB. As a 192 kbps MP3 the same hour is about 85MB and sounds the same to most ears. Convert it here, on your own device, and the original file is never uploaded anywhere.
Your file never leaves your device. Nothing is uploaded.
Drop an audio or video file here
Drop a .wav (or .aiff) up to 500MB. It never leaves your device.
Conversion runs on FFmpeg, compiled to WebAssembly, inside this browser tab. Licences and source
256 or 320 kbps for music you care about, 192 kbps for general listening, 128 kbps for speech. Keep the WAV if you'll edit the audio later; MP3 is for sharing and listening.
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.
The browser can't safely hold more than that. Trim the recording into parts with any audio editor, or record in a compressed format to begin with.
If the WAV is over 200MB, yes: the MP3 fits the free transcription tool's limit and uploads far faster. Transcription accuracy is the same, because speech recognition doesn't need lossless audio.
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