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M4A to WAV Converter

Convert M4A to WAV

Drop an .m4a file and download a 16-bit PCM WAV. Sample rate and channel count are preserved, so a 48 kHz mono voice memo becomes a 48 kHz mono WAV.

iPhone voice memos, meeting recordings, and screen-capture audio tracks all arrive as AAC in an MP4 container. Editors, forced-alignment tools, and older transcription software often want PCM instead.

What the WAV contains

The AAC decoder output is written straight to PCM. Whatever the encoder discarded when the recording was made stays missing, so the WAV is a working copy rather than an upgrade.

Mono recordings stay mono

Voice memos are usually single-channel. The channel count is carried through rather than expanded, which keeps the file at half the size of a stereo export and avoids duplicating identical samples across two channels.

Frequently Asked Questions

No. It holds the decoded AAC audio without compression. The size grows; the content is identical.

16-bit PCM in a RIFF WAVE container, at the source sample rate and channel count.

PCM needs no decoder and has a fixed byte offset per sample, so a pipeline can seek and window the audio without container parsing.

About 10 MB per minute of 44.1 kHz stereo audio. A 30-minute voice memo lands near 150 MB in mono.

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