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Uploading a file
Start a project from an audio or video file on your computer.
1 min readUpdated 19 Sep 2026
Start the project
- Click New project — from the sidebar, the dashboard or the Projects page.
- On the Upload a file tab, drop a file or click Choose a file.
- Name the project and set the spoken language.
- Click Start transcription.
While it uploads
Keep the tab open until the upload finishes — the progress bar shows how far along it is. The project appears in your dashboard as soon as you start, and once the file is uploaded it moves through Processing and Transcribing on its own. The stages are explained in Your first transcript.
Accepted files
MP4, MOV, MP3, WAV and M4A, up to 4 GB. See Supported files and links.
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