1. Get the voice note off your phone

Any phone: long-press the voice note in the chat, choose Share (on iPhone, Forward and then the share icon), and save it to your files, cloud drive, or email it to yourself.

Android: voice notes are also stored as files in the WhatsApp media folder, in a folder called WhatsApp Voice Notes, sorted into weekly subfolders. You can copy them from there with a file manager or over a USB cable.

You'll end up with a file ending in .opus or .ogg.

2. Convert it to MP3

  1. Open Opus to MP3. If your file ends in .ogg, use OGG to MP3 instead; it works the same way.
  2. Drop in one voice note or several at once.
  3. For speech, 96 or 128 kbps is plenty; set it in the settings next to MP3.
  4. Select Convert and download. With several files you can download them all as one ZIP.

Tips

  • To make a recording smaller, choose Mono in the channel setting; voice notes are mono anyway.
  • Need it for transcription or editing? Convert to WAV instead.
  • Voice notes can be private. Files you convert here are deleted automatically after 24 hours, or straight away if you remove them.