A Japanese voice message or lecture clip? Read it in English
For a supplier's voice note, a clip from a course you're taking abroad, or the part of a meeting you missed. Upload up to 3 minutes of Japanese audio and get what was said, then the same in English — usually in under a minute. 3 free uses a day, no account.
Up to 3 minutes and 25 MB. 3 free uses a day.
How it works
- Choose the Japanese voice note or clip — up to 3 minutes
- We write down what was said, then translate it into English — usually in under a minute
- Copy or download both as a TXT file
Listening to Japanese
- How it sounds
- Polite and casual speech use different verb endings, and the subject is often left out.
- Mixed speech
- Many English loan words are written in katakana (meeting = ミーティング) — the transcript keeps it as it was said before it is translated.
- Sentence order
- Japanese puts the verb at the end and English puts the verb after the subject, so sentences are rebuilt, not swapped word for word.
- Where it is spoken
- Japanese is spoken in Japan.
What changes in English
- Politeness
- Japanese has Japanese usually avoids "you"; politeness is built into verb forms (keigo); in English it becomes "you", with the respect carried by the wording.
- Numbers
- Numbers said in Japanese come out as figures (0–9) in the English.
Example
What was said (Japanese):
本講義では、需要と供給、そして供給が減少したときに価格が上昇する理由について見ていきます。
You read (English):
In this lecture, we will examine supply and demand, and the reasons why prices rise when supply decreases.
Example made with our translator from a sample sentence. Machine translation can make mistakes — check names, dates and amounts.
Audio or text?
Use this page when you have Japanese audio — a voice note, a call or a lecture clip. If you already have the Japanese as text, the text translator is quicker. Japanese to English translator
Questions
Is translating Japanese audio to English free?
Yes — clips up to 3 minutes and 25 MB, 3 times a day, no sign-up.
Will it follow a Japanese speaker with a strong accent?
Clear audio with one speaker at a time works best. Strong regional accents and background noise can cause mistakes, so check names and numbers against the recording.
Do I get the Japanese transcript too?
Yes — what was said in Japanese first, then the English.
What about long recordings?
Sign up free for recordings up to 100 minutes, or get Pro for 2-hour files and one question across all your recordings.
What a free account adds
- Keep each translation in the same note as the original.
- Translate whole recordings — 300 minutes a month free, files up to 100 minutes.
What Pro adds
- Ask one question across all your recordings and folders — “What did the supplier agree to, and in which call?” — and get the answer with the recording or note it came from.
- 1,200 minutes a month (free: 300) and files up to 2 hours.
- ₹299/month or ₹2,990/year in India; $6.99/month or $49/year elsewhere.