iPhone voice memo
- Open Voice Memos and select the recording.
- Share it and choose Save to Files. It saves as an .m4a file.
- Upload the .m4a here and keep Extract with AI selected.
Lyrics Extractor
Lyrics Extractor: MP3 to Lyrics
This lyrics extractor takes you from MP3 to lyrics you can copy. Upload a finished song, a rough demo or a voice memo: AI writes down what is sung and breaks it into lines. Fix any misheard word, then copy the text or download it.
How it works
From MP3 to lyrics in three steps
1Step 1
Upload the song
Drop in an MP3, WAV, FLAC, M4A or OGG, up to 10 MB and 10 minutes: a finished track, a demo, or a voice memo from your phone.
2Step 2
AI writes the lyrics down
What is sung is transcribed and split into lines. Every word also gets a timestamp, in case you want synced lyrics later.
3Step 3
Check, copy, download
Read the lyrics as plain text, fix anything misheard, then copy them or download a .txt file. Switch to the synced view for LRC or SRT.
Features
An MP3 lyrics extractor that hands you clean text
Most tools that transcribe song lyrics give you one long paragraph. This MP3 lyrics generator gives you lyric lines.
MP3 to lyrics, and more
Upload an MP3, WAV, FLAC, M4A, AAC or OGG file up to 10 MB and 10 minutes, whether it's a finished master, a rough bounce from your DAW or the .m4a a phone voice memo app saves. There's nothing to convert first. The uploaded audio stays available for 30 days, so you can play the song back while you read through the words.
Words from the mix, timing from the vocal
The lyrics are transcribed from the whole song, then the vocal is separated from the instruments so every word can be placed on the moment it is sung. A clear lead vocal gives the cleanest text. If the file turns out to be an instrumental, you're told that no vocals were found instead of being handed lines that were never sung.
Lines, not a wall of text
The result opens as plain lyric lines rather than one long paragraph. A line that runs past about 12 words or 12 seconds is split at its longest pause, so verses read the way they're sung. Paste them into a notes app, a lyric sheet or a song description, or keep them as a .txt file; copying and downloading are part of the paid plans.
Fix what was misheard
Switch to the synced view and the song plays with the current line highlighted, so you can hear exactly where a word went wrong. Click into the line and type the right word; edits save on their own, and Undo steps back through them. Reading and editing work on the Free plan, so you can check the whole song before you decide to copy it.
Ten languages
English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Russian, Japanese, Korean and Chinese are detected automatically. If a song mixes languages, set the main one yourself before you start. Want to understand what's being sung? Add an AI translation under every line for extra credits; it comes along when you export bilingual LRC, SRT or VTT.
Timing included
Every extraction is timed word by word along the way, at no extra cost. When you need synced lyrics or subtitles, switch to the synced view and export LRC, word-by-word LRC, SRT or VTT from the same result, without uploading the song again or paying for a second pass. Each extraction stays in your history, so you can come back for it later.
Voice memo to lyrics
Get your recording into the lyrics extractor
Songwriters' ideas usually live in a phone or a DAW. Here's how to get each one in.
Android recorder
- Open the recording in your recorder app.
- Share it to your files, or send it to your computer. Most recorders save .m4a or .mp3.
- Upload the file here and extract the lyrics.
Demo from a DAW
Bounce a mixdown, or just the vocal track for the cleanest result, as MP3. A 4-minute MP3 at 256 kbps is about 8 MB; WAV files pass the 10 MB limit after about a minute, so use MP3 for whole songs.
Who it's for
Who gets lyrics from audio
Anyone who needs to get lyrics from audio: they have the song, but not the words written down.
01
Songwriters
Voice memo to lyrics without the retyping: turn a recording or a rough demo into a lyric sheet you can edit, instead of replaying it line by line to type it out.
02
Singers learning a song
Get the words of a song you're covering, then fix the lines you can't make out while the song plays.
03
Video creators
Pull the lyrics of your own track for captions, a description or a lyric video. The timing is already there when you need it.
04
Language learners
Get the lyrics of a song in Spanish, Japanese, Korean or another supported language, and add an AI translation line by line (extra credits).
FAQ
Lyrics extractor, answered
Sign in, upload the MP3 and keep Extract with AI selected. AI transcribes the song and returns the lyrics as lines of plain text; MP3 to lyrics usually takes about a minute. Fix any misheard words, then copy them or download a .txt file.
Yes. Phone voice memos (.m4a), demos and rehearsal recordings all work. The clearer the vocal, the better the result: humming, mumbled placeholder words or a guitar louder than the voice mean more words to fix by hand.
On a clear lead vocal most lines come out right. Heavily processed or very fast vocals, stacked harmonies and ad-libs are where mistakes appear. Every word can be edited, and if you already have the lyrics, pasting them gives you exactly your text with timing added.
It listens. Nothing is looked up in a lyrics database: the MP3 lyrics generator writes down what is actually sung in the file you upload, which is why it works on unreleased songs, demos and voice memos that no lyrics site has. It's song to text for music, with the lines kept.
Each song costs 50 credits. The Free plan includes 120 credits a month, shared across Lacuna, which covers 2 songs if you spend them here. On the Free plan you can read and edit the extracted lyrics; the Copy and Download buttons are part of the paid plans.
MP3, WAV, FLAC, M4A and OGG, up to 10 MB and 10 minutes per song. Uploaded audio is kept for 30 days; the extracted lyrics stay in your history.
English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Russian, Japanese, Korean and Chinese. The language is detected automatically, and you can set it yourself before you start if the song mixes languages.
Yes. Every word is timed during extraction. Switch to the synced view and export LRC, word-by-word LRC, SRT or VTT. For subtitles made from lyrics you already have, use Lyrics to SRT.
It follows the lead vocal. Backing vocals that sing the same words are folded into the lead; separate harmony lines and ad-libs may be skipped. Add them in the editor if you need them.
Lyrics of songs you didn't write are usually protected by copyright. Extracting them to learn a song or for your own notes is one thing; publishing them generally needs the rights holder's permission. Your own songs are yours to use.
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Upload a song, a demo or a voice memo, and the lyrics extractor hands back clean lyric lines to copy.