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OPUS to WAV Converter

Convert OPUS to WAV

Drop a .opus file and download a 16-bit PCM WAV. Sample rate and channel count are preserved.

Transcription pipelines, forced aligners, and older editors frequently want PCM. Opus is efficient but not universally supported, so decoding it is the usual first step in any speech workflow.

Expect a large jump in size

A 30-second voice note at 32 kbps is roughly 120 KB. As mono 48 kHz PCM the same audio is about 2.8 MB. Nothing was added; uncompressed storage is simply that much less efficient.

Sample rate reporting

Because Opus decodes at 48 kHz, that is the rate written into the WAV header. Tools expecting 44.1 kHz will resample it themselves, and for speech recognition the rate rarely matters as long as it is declared correctly.

Frequently Asked Questions

16-bit PCM in a RIFF WAVE container.

Opus works internally at 48 kHz and reports that rate. The WAV is written at the rate the source declares rather than resampled to something else.

Yes. Those files are Opus in an Ogg container and decode here.

About 5 MB per minute for a mono 48 kHz recording, or double that in stereo, no matter how small the .opus file was.

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