Transcriber Bot: voice to text

Someone sends a three-minute voice note while you are on the subway or in a meeting. Listening is awkward and scrubbing through it is tedious. Transcriber Bot turns voice messages and pictures into text: forward a file to the bot or add it to a group, and just read 🎙️

Below is what the bot does, which commands matter and what to remember about privacy.

What becomes text

The bot handles two kinds of material. It transcribes voice messages in more than 20 languages, and it recognizes text in pictures in almost any language.

The flow is simple: forward a voice note or photo to the bot, or add it to a group chat, and the transcript comes back as a reply.

First steps

1. Open the chat with the bot and tap /start.
2. Forward a voice message or a picture with text.
3. Get the transcript in the reply.
4. Check the language with /lang if the result looks odd.

Commands worth knowing

• /lang: shows the current recognition language.
• /translate: translates a voice transcript into another language.
• /disable_photos and /enable_photos: switch text recognition in photos off and on.
• /disable_qr and /enable_qr: the same for QR codes.
• /stats: the bot's statistics for the current month.
• /privacy: the privacy policy.
• /donate: support the developers.

The bot in a group chat

Add the bot to a group and it transcribes voice notes right in the discussion. That helps when colleagues love answering by voice and reading beats listening.

In groups the bot reacts to commands only from administrators who have not hidden their identity. Do the setup from the owner's or an admin's account. 👥

When a transcript slips

Speech recognition depends on recording quality. Noise, accents, fast speech and slang lower accuracy. For important agreements, figures and names, compare the text with the original.

If the bot picked the wrong language, set the right one with a command. For pictures, even lighting and a large font help, while blurry photos are recognized worse. 📷

Privacy comes first

Voice and documents can contain personal data. Forwarding a file to an outside bot hands its contents to a service, so read /privacy and do not send passports, banking details or confidential talks.

For ordinary everyday voice notes the bot is fine. For work recordings with secrets, choose a local tool or your company's internal service.

Practical tips

Before forwarding a long voice note, make sure the recording is clear: a nearby microphone and a quiet room give a noticeably better result. Short phrases are also transcribed more accurately than long monologues.

It helps to copy the transcript into notes or a document and mark the key points at once. A five-minute recording becomes a short summary. ✍️

If the bot does not answer, wait a minute and resend: under heavy load, processing can take longer.

People who receive voice notes often but cannot listen. Students who need lecture notes. Anyone who wants to copy text from a photo or screenshot without retyping.