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Voice recorder online
Record sound from your microphone right here in the browser, record over the parts that came out badly, balance the layers and download the mix. Free, no sign-up, and nothing is uploaded — multi-track voice recording that never leaves your browser.
What the recorder can do
Record straight from the microphone
Press one button, or R, and the browser starts capturing. No installer, no account, no upload queue.
Choose your microphone and count in
Pick any input your computer knows about, and give yourself a three- or five-second countdown before recording starts. Both are remembered for next time.
Let the browser clean up the input
Switch automatic gain, noise suppression and echo cancellation on or off, wherever your browser supports them.
Hear yourself while you record
Turn on monitoring to hear the microphone in your headphones, and choose the output device and how loud it is.
Add effects to your headphone mix
Start from a preset (Dry, Clean vocal, Radio voice, Vocal plate, Slapback or Big hall) or set low cut, presence, compression, reverb and echo yourself, even while recording. The effects only change what you hear; the recording stays clean.
Fix the part you got wrong
Put the playhead where the clip went bad and record again. The new audio replaces that stretch and nothing else, and its edges are crossfaded into what is around it so the join does not click.
Split, move and delete clips
Cut a clip at the playhead and throw away the piece you do not want: cut on both sides of a fluffed line, then delete the middle. Drag a clip along its layer or onto another one, and it snaps to the playhead and to the edges of other clips.
Stack clips on separate layers
Add a layer for each voice or pass, then set its volume or mute it until the mix sits right. Each layer's menu lists its clips, so any one can be picked, downloaded or deleted from there.
Give each layer its own sound
Put a layer through the same presets, or its own low cut, presence, compression, reverb and echo, and hear the change while it plays. The effects go into the downloaded mix, but the clips underneath are never touched, so switching them off brings the dry take back.
See what you captured
A level meter shows what the microphone is hearing, and every layer draws its own waveform as it records, so a silent microphone is obvious immediately.
Move around the timeline
Zoom in on a single word or fit the whole recording to the width of the screen, drag the playhead along the ruler and loop playback. When zoomed in, an overview strip under the layers shows every clip in the recording; drag its frame or click anywhere on it to jump there.
Undo anything
Every edit, from a new clip to a volume change or a deleted layer, can be undone and redone.
Drive it from the keyboard
Space plays, R records, the left and right arrows step the playhead, up and down pick the layer to record on, M mutes it and ⌘Z undoes. Press ? for the full list.
Download MP3, WAV and more
The layers are mixed down in the page and saved as MP3, WAV, AAC, OGG or FLAC, depending on what your browser can encode — to your disk, or on a phone through the share sheet, straight into Messages, Mail or Files. Any layer can also be saved on its own, lined up with the rest.
Pick up where you left off
Your layers and clips are kept in the browser on this device, so a reload or a closed tab brings the project back. Turn autosave off and that copy is deleted.
Nothing leaves your machine
Capture, mixing and encoding all run in the tab. Your voice is never sent to a server, because there is no server.
What people record with it
Voice-overs for videos and slides
Read the narration for a YouTube video, a product demo, a slideshow or a presentation. Fluff a sentence and you record over that sentence, not the whole script.
Auditions and voice acting samples
Record a self-tape read or a demo reel line by line, patch the lines that missed, and send the casting team a WAV, without setting up an audio workstation.
Narration and audiobook samples
Read a chapter, a short story or a poem aloud. Long reads stumble, and each stumble is fixed in place, with the edges crossfaded so the joins do not show.
Voice samples for AI voice cloning
Many voice-cloning and text-to-speech services ask for a clean minute of your voice. Record it, redo the bits with a cough or a stammer, and download WAV for the best quality.
Lessons, tutorials and course audio
Record the audio for an online course, an e-learning module, a lecture or a how-to, one section at a time, and keep each section on its own layer.
Language practice and speaking homework
Record yourself reading a text in the language you are learning, listen back for pronunciation, and hand in the MP3 your teacher asked for.
Rehearsing a speech or a pitch
Run through a talk, a wedding toast, a job interview answer or a sales pitch, then listen to how it actually sounds and how long it takes.
Singing, harmonies and backing vocals
Import a backing track, sing over it, then add a harmony on a new layer while the first one plays in your headphones. Balance the voices and download the mix.
Song ideas and instrument practice
Catch a melody or a lyric before it is gone, or record a passage on the guitar or piano and hear where the timing drifts.
Voice memos and dictation
Talk through an idea, a to-do list or a draft. On a phone the recorder opens as one big button, like the voice memo app, with the full editor a tap away.
Voice messages to send as a file
Record a message that is too long or too important for a chat voice note, and attach the MP3 to an email, or on a phone pass it straight to Messages or Mail.
Voicemail greetings and announcements
Record a voicemail or on-hold greeting, a shop announcement or a radio drop, and redo it until it sounds the way you want it to.
Stories and messages for family
Read a bedtime story for a child to replay, record a grandparent's memories, or put together a birthday message with a different voice on each layer.
Sound effects for games and films
Record voices, creature noises and foley for a game jam, a student film or an animation, and export each one as its own WAV.
Private recordings
A voice journal, notes for a therapist, a statement in your own words. Nothing is uploaded, so nothing you say ends up on someone else's server.
Why you can trust it with your microphone
Dictaphone is built and maintained by Alex Chuev, a web developer. It started as a personal itch: every free recorder on the web wanted an account, an upload, or both — and none of them let you re-record just the sentence you fluffed.
Recording your own voice is a private act. A tool that asks for your microphone should not also ask you to trust a server with what it hears, so this one does not have a server to trust. There is no account system, no analytics on your audio and no upload step — not as a policy, but as an architecture.
Do not take that on faith. Open your browser's developer tools, switch to the Network tab and record something. You will see the page and its fonts load, and then nothing further. Your audio is captured, mixed and encoded entirely inside the tab, so the download comes out of your own machine's memory rather than from a server. The privacy page spells out the rest.
It is not a digital audio workstation. There are no plug-ins, no noise removal after the fact and no cloud library — each layer gets one small vocal chain of low cut, presence, compression, reverb and echo, and that is the extent of it. It records voice, lets you patch the bad parts, balances a few layers and gives you a file — and it tries to do only that well.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. The recorder is free to use, with no account, no trial and no limit on how long or how often you record.
No. It is a web page. Open it, allow the microphone and record — there is nothing to download or update.
No. Recording, mixing and encoding all happen inside the browser tab. The audio never leaves the machine you are sitting at.
Yes. Move the playhead to the spot you are unhappy with and record again. Only that stretch is replaced, so the rest of the clip survives.
Yes. Record the narration while watching the video on another screen, re-record any sentence that came out wrong, and download the voice-over as WAV or MP3 to drop into your video editor.
Yes. Choose File → Import audio… or drop the track onto a layer, then record on the layer above while it plays. Wear headphones so the music does not leak into the microphone.
Yes, in Safari on an iPhone or iPad and in Chrome on Android. On a phone it opens as a simple one-button recorder, and the full editor is a tap away. The finished file can go straight to Messages, Mail or Files through the share sheet.
Download it as an MP3 and attach it to an email or a chat, or on a phone share it directly. The recorder does not host your audio, so there is no link to send. That is the price of nothing being uploaded.
The mix can be saved as MP3, WAV, AAC, OGG or FLAC, depending on what your browser can encode.
Any current version of Chrome, Firefox, Edge or Safari. The recorder needs microphone access through the MediaDevices API and the Web Audio API.
Yes. The layers and clips are kept in your browser's own storage on this device, so a reload or a closed tab brings them back. A clip still being recorded is lost, and clearing the site's data deletes everything, so download the file once the recording sounds right.
New to it? Read how to record your voice, step by step.