WAVs in Apple’s Voice Memos app (macOS)

If I’m sent WAVs—for example over WhatsApp—I sometimes I want to transcribe them rather than listen. Apple’s Voice Memos can do transcription on device, but not WAVs.

As usual, because I forget, the shell command to create a Voice Memo compatible file is:

ffmpeg -i downloaded.wav transcribe-able.m4a

And if you can’t be bothered to drag and drop:

open -a VoiceMemos transcribe-able.m4a