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Extract the vocals from a song (a cappella)

Isolate the singing from any song as a clean vocal track for remixes, covers or learning lyrics, separated by an AI model on your device with no upload.

Drop a song or a videoMP3, WAV, M4A, FLAC, OGG — or the sound of an MP4, MOV, WebM · free up to 10 min
Choose a songProcessed on your device — never uploaded
Runs in your browser · no uploadHow it works

How to use Acapella extractor

  1. 1

    Add the song

    Choose the best-quality copy you have: a WAV, FLAC or high-bitrate MP3 gives a cleaner a cappella than a clip ripped from a phone recording. Music videos work too.

  2. 2

    Separate

    Keep the 2-stem mode, the model pair trained on voice against accompaniment, and press Separate. The first time, a 39 MB model is fetched and stored in the browser.

  3. 3

    Check the vocal on its own

    The result opens with the vocal soloed. Scrub through choruses and quiet verses, the parts where leftover drums or guitar are easiest to spot.

  4. 4

    Download the a cappella

    Save the vocals as WAV to edit in a DAW, or as MP3 to share with your band; the instrumental is right below if you need both.

Limits and Pro

10 minutes and 500 MB per song; longer files keep their first 10 minutes. Phones and other devices with 4 GB of memory or less process 5 minutes at a time.

Songs up to 20 minutes on a computer. See Pro

About Acapella extractor

An a cappella (acapella) is the vocal part of a song with the band taken away. Producers build remixes and mash-ups on it, cover singers study the original phrasing and breathing, teachers use it to show harmonies, and anyone writing down lyrics hears every word more easily without the drums underneath.

This page opens the vocal remover in vocal mode: the stem you hear first and the main download are the vocals. It uses Deezer's Spleeter model, which decides for every moment and frequency how much of the sound is voice, keeps that share and drops the rest.

What ends up in the vocal track is everything the model hears as singing: the lead, harmonies, backing vocals, ad-libs and spoken parts, all in one stem. Reverb and delay that were added to the voice usually stay with it, which sounds natural on its own but can smear a remix at a different tempo. Very breathy or whispered lines can come out quieter than in the original, and sustained synth pads or a lead guitar in the same range sometimes bleed through. Mono recordings are harder than stereo ones, because the voice and the band share one channel.

The vocal keeps the original key and tempo, so it lines up sample for sample with the source and with the instrumental stem. To change the key or the speed, load the WAV into an audio editor afterwards; this tool only separates.

Privacy

The vocals are isolated on your own device: the song is read and processed by a worker in this browser tab and is never uploaded. The Spleeter model comes once from huggingface.co and the runtime from jsDelivr; neither request contains your music.

Acapella extractor: frequently asked questions

Are backing vocals included in the a cappella?
Yes. The model separates voice from instruments, not one singer from another, so harmonies, doubles, choirs and ad-libs all land in the vocal stem together with the lead. If you only want the lead, that needs manual editing: in a DAW you can often cut the backing parts where they sit in gaps, or use the stereo position when they are panned wide.
Why do I hear faint drums or guitar in the vocal track?
Sounds that share the voice's frequencies at the same moment can't be pulled apart perfectly. Snare hits and cymbal splashes may leave a soft tick, and a lead guitar or saxophone in the vocal range can bleed in. These traces are quiet; under a new beat in a remix they usually disappear. A cleaner, higher-bitrate source file helps more than anything else.
Which format should I download for a remix?
Take the WAV. It is uncompressed 16-bit audio at 44.1 kHz, imports into any DAW, and has no encoder delay, so it starts on exactly the same sample as the original song and the instrumental stem. MP3 at 320 kbps sounds the same to most ears and is about a fifth of the size, which is handier for sending to a singer or a phone.
Can I publish a remix made with the vocals?
Only with permission. The voice on the recording is still the artist's and the label's work, so posting a remix, a mash-up or the a cappella itself normally needs a licence, although some artists release official stems for remix contests. Private practice, study and DJ sets you don't record or publish are a different case.
Does the vocal stay in time with the original song?
Yes. Nothing is stretched, shifted or resampled except to 44.1 kHz, so the vocal lines up sample for sample with the source and with the instrumental stem. Drop both into a DAW at zero and they play back as the original mix. A key or tempo change has to be done afterwards in an audio editor.

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