# Telegram transcribe voice messages

**URL:** <https://community.n8n.io/t/telegram-transcribe-voice-messages/26239>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Created:** [May 16, 2023, 6:45am UTC](https://community.n8n.io/t/telegram-transcribe-voice-messages/26239 "2023-05-16T06:45:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![albert](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/n8n/user_avatar/community.n8n.io/albert/32/25434_2.png) [@albert](https://community.n8n.io/u/albert)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2023, 6:45am UTC](https://community.n8n.io/t/telegram-transcribe-voice-messages/26239/1 "2023-05-16T06:45:59Z")

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## The idea is:

Add the ability to transcribe voice messages in Telegram

## My use case:

I am recording an voice memo and want to transcribe it into text for further processing

## I think it would be beneficial to add this because:

This is a very popular use case, I notice in the community that people have to build big systems to translate ogg to other formats, transcribing using other api. Although telegram does provide that capability.

## Any resources to support this?

> **[Voice message transcription](https://core.telegram.org/api/transcribe)**
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> How to transcribe voice messages.

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**Author:** ![pooria](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/n8n/user_avatar/community.n8n.io/pooria/32/14482_2.png) [@pooria](https://community.n8n.io/u/pooria)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2023, 12:06am UTC](https://community.n8n.io/t/telegram-transcribe-voice-messages/26239/2 "2023-08-29T00:06:51Z")

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Very useful feature indeed as it does the work of 3-5 nodes.

Now we have to get the voice message, download it, convert it to mp3 from ogg…run operations…then to send it back we have to convert to ogg again and send

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**Author:** ![pooria](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/n8n/user_avatar/community.n8n.io/pooria/32/14482_2.png) [@pooria](https://community.n8n.io/u/pooria)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2023, 3:30am UTC](https://community.n8n.io/t/telegram-transcribe-voice-messages/26239/3 "2023-09-08T03:30:25Z")

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@albert does telegram natively support voice message transcription (and detect the language of transcription)?

and without charge?

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**Author:** ![pooria](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/n8n/user_avatar/community.n8n.io/pooria/32/14482_2.png) [@pooria](https://community.n8n.io/u/pooria)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2023, 3:31am UTC](https://community.n8n.io/t/telegram-transcribe-voice-messages/26239/4 "2023-09-08T03:31:59Z")

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@albert it seems this is not a feature for a telegram bot but only personal accounts