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Free audio joiner

Combine multiple audio files into one smooth track. Upload MP3, WAV, M4A, FLAC and more, then open your project in the Hilite editor to reorder, trim, preview, and export.

Free online WAV trimmer

Trim, cut, and edit WAV files directly in your browser. No software downloads, no complicated timeline. Upload your audio, choose the section you want, preview it, and export, then keep going in the Hilite editor.

Free online MP3 editor

Edit your MP3 files instantly in your browser. No downloads, no installation, no complicated audio software. Trim, cut, merge, adjust volume, or create a ringtone, then keep going in the Hilite editor.

Remove background noise with AI

Clean up noisy audio in seconds with Hilite’s AI noise reduction tool. Upload a file or record directly in your browser, then hear the difference: cleaner voice, less noise, ready for podcasts, interviews, and lessons.

Remove silence from audio for free

Long pauses can make a good recording feel slower than it really is. Hilite’s free audio silence remover detects and removes dead air while preserving the natural rhythm of your voice. Upload your file, choose how tight you want the edit, and let AI do the heavy lifting.

How to transcribe audio with AI

Need to convert audio to text quickly? Manual transcription can take hours. Hilite’s AI turns spoken words into readable text, upload an audio file, choose a language, and get a transcript you can review, edit, copy, and export.

Podcast transcript generator

Turn your podcast into a clean, searchable transcript in minutes. Upload your episode and let Hilite create a transcript you can read, search, download, and repurpose into show notes, blog posts, and social content.

Free SRT file generator

An SRT file generator turns speech from your audio into timed subtitle text. Upload your audio file, let AI create the transcript and timestamps, then export a subtitle file you can use with editors, players, and platforms.

Edit a bedtime story recording

Voice Memos on an iPhone will trim the start and the end and delete a chunk from the middle, which covers about half of what a bedtime recording needs. Audacity does the rest and costs nothing, but it's a full desktop program with an evening's learning curve you probably weren't planning on. The actual jobs are small and specific: take out the page turns and the mouth noise, get the volume even so nobody is reaching for the dial at 8pm, keep the warmth of the read rather than processing it flat, and fade the last few seconds instead of stopping dead. Hilite does those four in a browser tab, on whatever device the recording is already on, and hands you back an mp3 that plays on any speaker.

Edit a daily devotional recording

A daily devotional edit has to be finished in minutes, or the show stops. That's the whole design brief, and it shapes every decision on this page: a saved intro and outro you drop on every episode, one loudness target you hit every time, and a firm decision about how much you're going to fix — which is almost always less than you think. Audacity will do the job and costs nothing, though the per-episode clicking mounts up over a hundred episodes and it has no memory of what you did last time. Hilite opens in a browser tab with nothing to install, so you can trim, level and export a week's worth in one session without moving files between apps.

Edit a guided meditation recording

Audacity will do every edit on this page for free, and if you already know Audacity you should use it. What's worth knowing before you open anything is that the ordinary podcast editing instinct — tighten it up, cut the breaths, close the gaps — is the wrong instinct for this material. The listener's breathing entrains to yours, so an audible in-breath is doing real work, and a pause you performed is content rather than dead air. The script and the recording are separate jobs; this page starts at the point where you have a take on your hands. Hilite runs in the browser with nothing to install, and does the four things this particular edit needs: a trim, a fix for the line you fluffed, a music bed and a level pass.

Edit a hypnosis recording

The one rule that separates a hypnosis recording that works from one that doesn't is that you leave the pauses alone. Every editing habit picked up from podcasts and video says close the gaps and tighten it up; here the gaps are the work, because the silence after a suggestion is where the suggestion settles, and a tightened track stops working while still sounding completely fine. Audacity will make every edit described on this page and it costs nothing, so if it's already on your machine there's no reason to move. Where it runs out is that it's a desktop install you can't put on a work or school laptop, and the four things a hypnosis track actually needs are scattered through menus written for people mixing music. Hilite trims, cleans, levels and exports in a browser tab, on a file that might run forty minutes.

Edit a sermon recording

Most sermon recordings need one thing far more than they need anything else, and it isn't trimming — it's levelling. Preaching has an enormous dynamic range: the same person drops to a near whisper for a line and then fills the room a sentence later. That works beautifully in a building and badly in a car, where the quiet part vanishes under road noise and the loud part sends someone reaching for the dial. Audacity will do all of this for free if you're willing to learn compression, normalisation and where they live in the menus. Hilite opens in a browser tab on the church laptop, needs no install and no IT request, and gives you levelling as one control instead of three effects and a manual.

Edit a sleep story recording

Editing a sleep story is a hunt for sudden events. Nothing in the finished file may startle: not a swallow, not a chair creak, not a consonant that spikes above everything around it. At bedtime volume with earbuds in, those are the things that wake somebody who was almost gone, and next to them the usual polish barely matters. Audacity will do all of this free if you're patient with it and don't mind installing something. Hilite does the same job in a browser tab, levelling and cleaning the whole file at once, which is where most of the startles are hiding.

Edit a sound bath recording

Audacity does all of this for free and it's the right tool if you already know it. The catch, in Audacity or anywhere else, is that almost every default setting is wrong for this material, because the defaults were designed for speech. A noise gate at any sensible speech threshold will chop the decay tails, and the tails are where the entire effect lives. Normalise hard or run a compressor at podcast settings and you flatten the dynamics that make it a sound bath rather than a drone. Planning and recording the session are separate jobs; this page starts with the file, and the whole method is gentleness — long fades measured in seconds, a light hand on noise reduction, and cuts placed in real silence rather than in a tail you can't hear yet.

Edit a yoga class recording

Editing a yoga class is mostly a matter of deciding what not to cut. Audacity is free and will do every job on this page, and GarageBand is already sitting on your Mac — both are real tools and neither is the wrong answer. What actually goes wrong isn't the software, it's an instinct every editor has: the raw file is full of long silences while the class holds pigeon for ninety seconds, and on the waveform those silences look like a mistake. They are not. They are the practice, and tightening them turns a class into a rushed instruction video that nobody can follow on a mat. Hilite opens the recording in a browser tab, so you can trim the front, level a voice that drifted and add a bed without installing anything.

Edit a yoga nidra recording

Editing a yoga nidra is a consistency job, not a polish job. Audacity will do it and it costs nothing, but it will also happily let you leave one section three decibels louder than the one before it and never say a word about it. That's the failure that matters here. Your listener is on the edge of sleep at minute 30, and a level jump wakes them — which is the one thing the recording exists to prevent. So the work is matching sections recorded at different times, joining takes where a pause already is, leaving the long silences exactly as long as you made them, and checking the result quietly on earbuds rather than loud on speakers.

Edit an ASMR recording

Noise reduction is what ruins ASMR edits, and it ruins them invisibly. The triggers people came for — whispering, tapping, soft brushing — sit at almost exactly the level a noise reducer is aiming at, so the standard settings take the content out along with the hiss and hand you back a track that is clean, quiet and completely dead. Audacity's Noise Reduction is the free tool most people reach for and it can absolutely do this job, but only if you drag the defaults a long way down, and most tutorials tell you the opposite. Hilite gives you a gentler version in a browser tab with the trimming, levelling and export alongside it, so you can hear what's being removed before you commit to it.

Edit an affirmations recording

Editing an affirmations recording comes down to one number: how long you leave between the lines. Audacity is free and can do all of it, and the trimmer in your phone's voice recorder is fine for a rough pass — but neither makes it easy to keep every gap the same length, and that is the thing that decides whether the track works. Leave roughly as long as the line itself, so the listener has room to say it back, then make every other gap match. Uneven spacing is what makes an affirmations track feel restless and slightly urgent, which is the exact opposite of what it's for. Hilite opens the recording in a browser tab where you can set the gaps, level each line and lay a bed underneath.

Edit an audiobook recording

Editing an audiobook is not the same job as editing a podcast. You aren't making it sound nice, you're hitting numbers — every file between -23dB and -18dB RMS, no peak above -3dB, and a noise floor below -60dB RMS. A chapter can be warm, well-read and genuinely enjoyable and still be rejected because the room hums a little too loudly underneath it. Audacity will do all of this for free if you're willing to learn where its measurement tools live and run each step by hand, and plenty of people do. Hilite runs in a browser tab with the recording and the editor in one place, which matters when you're going to measure the same file four times before it's finished.

Extract audio from video

Pull the audio track out of a video file and keep it on its own. Upload the video, and Hilite gives you the sound as MP3, WAV, or M4A — ready to trim, clean up, transcribe, or publish as an episode.

Free AI audio enhancer

Make a home recording sound like it was made somewhere better. Upload your file and Hilite’s AI reduces background noise, evens out the levels, and lifts the voice forward — then hands you straight into the editor to trim, transcribe, and publish.

Free AI podcast clip generator

Turn a full podcast episode into focused clips your audience can sample and share. Upload spoken audio, identify a strong moment, refine the boundaries, and continue editing in Hilite.

Free M4A to MP3 converter

Convert voice memos and other M4A recordings to widely supported MP3 files. Upload from your phone or computer, convert online, and download or keep editing in Hilite.

Free MP3 to WAV converter

Convert MP3 files to WAV online for editing, archiving, or higher-quality production workflows. Upload your MP3, convert it, and download the WAV file in a few clicks.

Free WAV to MP3 converter

Convert large WAV recordings to smaller MP3 files that are easier to upload, share, and publish. Choose your export quality, preview the result, and download it online.

Free audio looper

Repeat a section of audio as many times as you need. Mark the part you want, duplicate it along the timeline, and export one continuous track — useful for background beds, practice tracks, and breathing or meditation cues.

Free audio normalizer

Even out audio that is too quiet in places and too loud in others. Upload your file and Hilite brings the whole recording to one consistent level, so listeners stop reaching for the volume halfway through.

Free audio volume booster

Make quiet speech and recordings louder without pushing the loudest moments into distortion. Upload your audio, adjust the level, preview the result, and export.

Free online ID3 tag editor

Update the metadata stored inside an MP3 file. Edit titles, creator details, artwork, dates, genres, and comments before you distribute or archive your audio.

Free online LUFS meter

Measure the perceived loudness of your audio before publishing. Upload a recording to check integrated LUFS and peak levels, then continue into Hilite if it needs adjustment.

Free online M4A editor

Edit M4A recordings without converting them first. Trim unwanted sections, split clips, improve spoken audio, generate a transcript, and export when the recording is ready.

Free online MP3 cutter

Cut a clip from an MP3 directly in your browser. Mark the section you want, preview it, and download the result or continue refining it in the Hilite editor.

Free online MP3 trimmer

Trim unwanted audio from the beginning or end of an MP3. Use the waveform to set precise boundaries, listen before exporting, and download a clean finished clip.

Free online WAV editor

Edit WAV files in your browser. Cut, join, reorder, and clean up your audio on a timeline you can actually read — then export as WAV, or as MP3 if you need something smaller.

Free online audio compressor

Reduce the gap between loud and quiet parts of a recording so every word is easier to hear. Hilite controls uneven dynamics without making you configure a studio compressor.

Free online audio converter

Convert audio files between MP3, WAV, M4A, AAC, FLAC, OGG, and OPUS in your browser. Choose the format you need, preview the result, and download it or continue editing in Hilite.

Free online audio cutter

Cut the exact section you need from an audio file. Select a start and end point on the waveform, preview the cut, and export it without learning complicated editing software.

Free online audio speed changer

Speed up or slow down a recording directly in your browser. Choose a playback rate, preview how the speech sounds, and export the adjusted audio without complicated editing software.

Free online audio splitter

Split a long recording into separate audio files. Place cut points on the waveform, preview each section, and export the pieces you need for episodes, clips, lessons, or interviews.

Free online microphone test

Check that your microphone is connected, audible, and recording at a healthy level before an important podcast, interview, lesson, or voiceover.

Free online voice memo editor

Edit Voice Memos online without learning a traditional waveform editor. Upload a recording from iPhone or iPad, trim unwanted sections, remove spoken mistakes through the transcript, improve speech, and export the finished voice note.

Free online voice recorder

Record your voice or microphone straight in the browser. Nothing to install and nothing to set up—open the online voice recorder, check your levels, and talk. Use it for voice notes, interviews, lessons, podcast episodes, or any spoken audio, then download the file or continue editing.

Free podcast RSS feed validator

Check a podcast RSS feed before submitting or updating your show. Find missing channel information, invalid episode fields, enclosure problems, and common formatting issues.

Free podcast SEO metadata grader

Check whether a podcast episode title and description clearly communicate the topic, audience and value. Get a focused score and practical recommendations before publishing.

Free voice memo to MP3 converter

Turn an iPhone or iPad Voice Memo into an MP3 for easier sharing, uploading, and publishing. Upload the M4A memo, make any quick edits, and export an MP3 in your browser.

How to record audio on iPhone

There are two ways to record audio on an iPhone: the Voice Memos app that came with it, or straight in your browser. Voice Memos is quickest for a note to yourself, and you can AirDrop it to your computer when you want to do more with it. Recording in the browser puts you in an editor the moment you stop, which is what you want when the recording is going to be published.

Interview transcription

Turn a recorded interview into accurate, timestamped text. Upload the audio or the video, and Hilite transcribes what was said so you can find the quote, write the piece, and publish — without scrubbing back through the timeline.

Podcast recording

Record your podcast in the browser. Nothing to install and no interface to configure — open Hilite, check your levels, and start talking. When you stop, you are already in the editor, ready to trim, clean up, transcribe, and publish.

Record ASMR

In ASMR the microphone is the content, not a way of capturing it. Proximity, which mic you own and where each sound sits across the stereo field are the whole craft, and the software you record into barely registers next to them. That has a blunt consequence worth saying early: a laptop's built-in mic cannot make ASMR, because it's a foot away and specifically tuned to throw away the quiet detail you're trying to record. Audacity is free and records ASMR perfectly well once you have a real mic, so if it's already installed you have nothing to gain from moving. Where it runs out is being a desktop install you can't put on a borrowed or locked-down machine — Hilite takes the same USB mic or interface in a browser tab and drops the take straight into an editor.

Record a bedtime story

Open Voice Memos on a phone, or Voice Recorder on Windows, press record and read the book — for a story you're sending tonight, that genuinely is enough. Where those apps run out is everything that happens after: they can't take out the thump when you set the phone down, the page turn that lands louder than your voice, or the dog barking in chapter two. They also can't fade the ending, so the file stops dead and the room goes silent all at once, which is exactly the moment a half-asleep child opens their eyes. Hilite records in a browser tab on a phone, tablet or laptop, and the recording lands straight in an editor where you can cut the noises out, even the volume so nobody has to touch the dial at 8pm, and let the last line fade away.

Record a daily devotional

Recording one devotional is easy. Recording the thirtieth on a wet Tuesday when you're tired is the real problem, and it's what quietly ends most daily shows. So the setup matters more than the microphone: one room, one chair, one distance from the mic, one time of day, written down so you can rebuild it in a minute instead of fiddling for twenty. Voice Memos and the Recorder app capture a devotional perfectly well and plenty of good ones started there — they just leave you with thirty files at thirty different volumes and nowhere to fix them. Hilite records in a browser tab on whatever device you have to hand and drops each one into an editor, so the file you finish is the file you publish.

Record a guided meditation at home

You can record a guided meditation on the phone or laptop you already own, and for a first pass you should — Voice Memos, Windows Voice Recorder and QuickTime all take a clean take with one button. What none of them help with is the part that actually decides whether the recording works: your pace, and how quiet your room really is. A meditation is mostly silence, so the noise floor is exposed in a way it never is on a podcast — the fridge, the boiler, a laptop fan under the desk, a car going past. Writing the script is a separate job; this page starts at the moment you sit down to read it. Hilite records in the browser with nothing to install, and the take lands in an editor that takes the hum out, levels the voice and gives you a transcript.

Record a hypnosis session

A hypnosis recording is not a session with a microphone in the corner. Voice Memos, Windows Voice Recorder or QuickTime will capture your voice perfectly well, and for testing a script out loud that is genuinely all you need. The difference that matters is structural: there is nobody in the room to settle the listener at the start or to bring them back at the end, so the track has to carry its own induction at the top and its own count-up at the end. That is a recording decision, made before you press record, and getting it wrong is the commonest fault in free hypnosis audio — tracks that drift off into music with the listener still down. Hilite records a long take in a browser tab with nothing to install, and opens it straight into an editor that levels, cleans and exports it.

Record a sermon

The best sermon recording almost never starts with buying a microphone. The preacher is already mic'd, that signal is already going through the sound desk, and most desks have a spare output on the back that nobody is using. Take a feed from there and you get the preacher's voice; put a phone on the back row and you get the building, the air handling and whoever is unwrapping a sweet in row four. Voice Memos and the Android Recorder app will capture something in a pinch, and plenty of churches started that way, but they leave you with a file that can't be fixed. Hilite records that desk feed straight into a browser tab on the church laptop, so it lands in an editor rather than on somebody's phone.

Record a sleep story

Record a sleep story so that it loses energy as it goes. Voice Memos or Windows Voice Recorder will capture the words perfectly well, and for a first attempt they're enough, so start there if that's what you have open. What no recorder can do for you is the read itself, and the read is the whole thing. A sleep story has to descend — slower and quieter at minute twenty than at minute two — which is the opposite of every other kind of narration you've been taught. Recording late in the evening helps more than any microphone will, because your voice already sits lower and slower by then.

Record a sound bath

Voice Memos and Windows Voice Recorder will record a sound bath, and what comes back is usually a let-down: the strikes sound crunchy and the long tails swell and sag in a way they never did in the room. That's automatic gain control — the phone quietly turns itself down on a strike and back up during the decay, which is precisely backwards for this material. Bowls and gongs have enormous dynamic range and very long tails, and clipping is the failure mode, because the strike is far louder at the mic than it sounds to your ears. Planning the session and the sequence of instruments is a separate job; this page is about capturing it. Hilite records in a browser tab on a laptop, where you can set an input level and leave it alone, and the take lands in an editor that trims and cleans without chopping the tails.

Record a yoga class

Record a yoga class with a small lapel mic clipped to your collar, not with a phone propped up at the front of the room. Voice Memos on an iPhone or the recorder app on Android is honestly fine for a seated talk, it's free and it's already on the device — but a yoga class is the one recording where you don't stay put. You cue from the front, then walk over to adjust someone's back knee, and your voice walks away from the microphone while the microphone stays exactly where it was. A clip-on lapel mic fixes that outright, because it moves with you, and no amount of editing afterwards rescues a room recording that kept losing you. Hilite records straight into an editor in a browser tab, so the trimming and levelling happen where the class lands rather than in a second app.

Record a yoga nidra

Record a yoga nidra in sittings rather than one heroic take. Voice Memos or Windows Voice Recorder will capture it, and a phone on a stand a hand's width away genuinely sounds fine for this, so don't rush out and buy anything. The problem isn't the mic, it's the length. A nidra runs 20 to 45 minutes, and your voice at minute 38 is not the voice you had at minute 3 — it tires, it dries, it drops in pitch and it stops keeping time. Warm up first, keep water next to you, record in three or four sittings you deliberately match, and join them in an editor afterwards.

Record an audiobook at home

Audacity is the free program most home narrators use, and it deserves its reputation — it records, it edits, and it has the measuring tools an audiobook actually needs. It's also a desktop install with an interface from another era, and it won't tell you whether your file passes until you go looking for the numbers yourself. That matters here more than on any other kind of recording, because an audiobook is the one format with a published specification: ACX wants every file between -23dB and -18dB RMS, no peak louder than -3dB, and a noise floor below -60dB RMS. Most of the work is getting your room, your mic and your habits to a place where those numbers happen on their own, session after session, because a book takes weeks and every session has to sound like the same person in the same room. Hilite records in a browser tab straight into an editor, so a chapter gets recorded, cleaned and checked in one place.

Record audio for Google Slides

Google Slides cannot record audio. There is no record button anywhere in it — you record the narration in something else, put the file in Google Drive, then use Insert > Audio in Slides and pick it from Drive. That's the whole process, and most pages on this subject take four hundred words to admit it. The second thing worth knowing early: Slides only accepts mp3 and wav from Drive, so a voice memo recorded on a phone comes out as an m4a and won't appear in the picker until it's converted. Hilite records in a browser tab, on a school Chromebook or anything else, and exports an mp3 you can drop straight into Drive.

Record audio for an online course

Record clear lesson narration for an online course, edit retakes through the transcript, and export organized audio without installing a traditional recording suite.

Record audio on Windows

Windows already has a recorder, and for a lot of jobs it's enough: press Start, type recorder, and open Sound Recorder on Windows 11 or Voice Recorder on Windows 10 — same app, renamed. It picks your microphone, records, and saves an .m4a into Documents. Be clear about where it stops, though: the editing is trim-only, there's no noise removal, nothing to even out a loud speaker and a quiet one, and no transcript. Hilite records in a browser tab on the same PC, with nothing to install and no admin rights needed, and the recording opens straight into an editor that handles all four.

Record audio on a Chromebook

You can record audio on a Chromebook without installing anything: open Hilite in a tab, allow the microphone, press record. ChromeOS has never shipped a proper voice recorder — the built-in Screen Capture tool records your screen with the mic attached, and newer Chromebooks include a Recorder app, but neither lets you do much with the audio afterwards. Almost every other page you'll find tells you to install an Android app or a Chrome extension, which is exactly what a school-managed Chromebook blocks. A browser recorder is the native answer here, because the browser is what a Chromebook is. Your recording lands in an editor where you can trim it, take out the room hum, even out the volume and get a transcript.

Record audio on a Mac

The quickest way to record audio on a Mac is QuickTime Player: open it, choose File > New Audio Recording, click the red button. Voice Memos does the same job in fewer clicks and syncs whatever you recorded on your iPhone, and GarageBand is there if you actually want a music studio. For a note to yourself, any of the three is enough. They run out at the same place, though: QuickTime trims the top and tail and nothing else, none of them removes the hiss from the room, none of them evens out one loud voice and one quiet one, and none of them gives you a transcript. Hilite records in a browser tab on any Mac and the file opens straight into an editor that does all four.

Record voice on an iPad

iPadOS gives you two ways to record a voice already: Voice Memos, which is one red button and a file, and GarageBand, which is a full music studio you have to learn. For a quick note, Voice Memos is genuinely fine and you should just use it. It runs out the moment the recording is going to be heard by somebody else — it won't take the room hum out, it won't even out a loud voice and a quiet one, and it won't give you a transcript. GarageBand can do a lot of things, but it's built for songs, and the multitrack interface fights you when all you want is a clean spoken take. Hilite records in Safari on iPadOS, so there's nothing to install, and the recording lands in an editor that trims, cleans, levels and transcribes.

Record your mic online

This page is for recording from your microphone in the browser — you press record, you talk, you get a file. That's a different job from checking the mic works at all, which is what our microphone test page does, and it's worth spending ten seconds there first if you're not certain the right input is live. Every modern browser can record audio without a plugin, so there's nothing to download; the parts that trip people up are permissions, which input the browser picked, and levels. Hilite handles the recording and then opens it in an editor, so you can trim the false start, take the room hum out, even the volume and export an mp3 or wav.

Record your own affirmations online

Record affirmations in your own voice, trim mistakes, improve clarity, and save a track you can return to. Hilite works in the browser, so you can create the recording without installing a dedicated affirmation app.