Can ChatGPT do audio transcription?

ChatGPT can transcribe audio you upload. Attach a voice memo or recording and ask for a transcript, and it will return the text using the speech recognition behind its voice features.

It works for short, clear clips. The limits appear fast: file size caps, no speaker labels, shaky timestamps, and long recordings that need splitting into chunks. It is a chat tool doing transcription on the side, not a transcription product.

Whether ChatGPT is good for transcription depends on volume. One short memo, fine. Weekly meetings, lectures, or interview hours, and the manual uploading and stitching costs more time than it saves.

For recordings you handle regularly, a dedicated audio to text converter does the whole job in one pass.