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Big Charlie Author

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How to convert an mp4 audio file to text on my macbook pro

How can I convert an mp4 audio file to text on my macbook pro? I use Mojave MacOS 10.14.5

MacBook Pro 15", 10.14

Posted on Jul 12, 2019 11:10 AM

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Tesserax

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Jul 12, 2019 11:50 AM in response to Big Charlie

A MP4 (or MPEG-4) is a digital audio container typically used to store video and audio, but can also contain other data. Audio-only MPEG-4 containers typically have a .m4a extension, especially without digital rights. Whereas, .m4p files are protected.

Regardless, even if you can convert either an .m4a or .m4p file to text, it would appear as gibberish in a text editor. Is there some reason you want or need to do this? Are you trying to do text transcriptions of a video or audio file? If so there are a number of online sites that offer this service.

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