import telebot TOKEN = 'YOUR BOT TOKEN' CHAT_ID = 'YOUR CHAT ID' bot = telebot.TeleBot(TOKEN) ret_msg = bot.send_voice(CHAT_ID, open('tests/test_data/record.ogg', 'rb')) file_info = bot.get_file(ret_msg.voice.file_id) downloaded_file = bot.download_file(file_info.file_path) with open('new_file.ogg', 'wb') as new_file: new_file.write(downloaded_file)