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A workshop, a season of episodes, an interview round, or forty short clips. Bring the work as it actually arrives.
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We auto-detect the spoken language on the way in, 99+ of them, then translate the finished transcript into any other, with timestamps and subtitles intact. Every language is the same flat rate – no language tiers.
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Transcribe anything.
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Native, per-format AI
AI notes built for what you actually make.
One upload, output shaped to what you made. Pick your format and watch your recording come back as the notes that format actually needs – not one generic summary, not a bolt-on chatbot you re-prompt.
The hook
“Stop posting your best idea in the first three seconds.”
Core message
A hook should open a curiosity loop rather than give away the answer; you sustain watch time by paying that loop off in installments, editing the transcript before the footage, and closing on an open question to drive rewatches.
Call to action
If you want the transcript-first checklist I run on every video, comment the word LOOP and I'll send it over. And follow, because tomorrow I'm breaking down the one caption mistake that's tanking your reach.
Retention structure
- 1
Pattern-interrupt hook that negates accepted advice and names the stakes (watch time)
- 2
Reframe: redefines what a hook actually is ('the moment you open a loop the viewer needs to close')
- 3
Proof / credibility beat using personal data ('I pulled the retention graphs on my last forty Reels')
- 4
Payoff with a concrete, stealable framework (name the mistake, raise stakes, promise the fix, deliver in installments)
- 5
Tactical escalation: edit the transcript with no audio or visuals, then end on an open question to trigger rewatches
- 6
Recap of the four moves followed by a two-part CTA (comment 'LOOP' + follow with a next-video tease)
Topics
Suggested hashtags
Every persona gets notes built for their format, from the same upload.
Ask, don’t scrub
Ask the transcript anything.
An hour-long recording? Don’t skim it – ask. Every answer stays grounded in your transcript and cites the exact timestamp, so you can jump to the moment and check it yourself.
What's the main claim about memory?
That memory is a reconstruction, not a recording – every time you recall something you rebuild it from fragments and quietly edit it. The guest's blunt version: confidence is the worst possible witness.
Any technique I can actually use today?
Yes – retrieval practice: close the book and force yourself to recall instead of rereading. The struggle to recall is the workout that builds the memory. And protect your sleep – that's when the brain files the day.
Grounded in your transcript – if the answer isn’t in the audio, it says so instead of guessing.
Clean paragraphs. No more um's and ah's.
The left is what Pepys hands back – logical paragraphs with the filler stripped out, punctuated and readable. The right is the raw, one-line-per-segment dump most transcribers leave you with.
um so yeah everyone keeps telling you to like lead with your best line right but uh honestly if you give away the whole answer in the first second you know there's basically no reason for anyone to keep watching so the hook isn't kind of the smartest thing you say it's like a loop you open that they need to close and um that's the part that actually keeps people around
RawWho said what
Speaker labels that survive cross-talk
Automatic speaker diarization. Two people, four people, cross-talk and interruptions – interviews, panels, messy meetings. Pepys keeps each voice on its own line instead of blurring them into one, so you never rewind to figure out who was talking.
So the festival nearly didn't happen this year–
–it almost didn't. We lost the venue three weeks out.
Three weeks? How do you even start to–
You call everyone you know. The whole town pitched in.
And that's how it ended up in the park.
Works with the platforms you live in.
Paste a link from Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, Box, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Rumble, Kwai, a Twitch or Kick clip, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts, or drop in any audio or video file. We transcribe it once, then you export it however your workflow needs.
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Export to any format
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Timestamps, speaker labels, and subtitle timing carry through to every export.
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AI tuned to your format
Hooks for short-form, show notes for podcasts, decisions for meetings, study notes for lectures – built into the editor, not a bolted-on chatbot you re-prompt.
And the tools built in:
Accurate & timestamped
Word- and segment-level timestamps on every line.
Speaker labels when you need them
Every voice on its own line, automatically.
99+ languages, in and out
Auto-detected in; translate the result on the way out.
Every export format
TXT, SRT, VTT, DOCX, PDF, JSON in one click.
From file to finished, in three steps
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Any audio or video. You record it – no bot ever joins your call – and we do the rest.
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Timestamps, speaker labels, and AI tuned to your format – show notes, hooks, or a summary. Ready in minutes.
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Loved by people who’d rather not type
Creators, podcasters, students, journalists, and researchers turn hours of audio into searchable text – with the AI notes to go with it.
Sunday night used to be show notes night. Now I upload the episode, skim the pull-quotes, and I am done before dinner.
Adam M.Podcast producer · Got Sunday backI had one of those awful deadline moments where I knew the source had said the line, but I could not remember where. Searching the transcript got me there in seconds, with the timestamp right next to it. That changed the whole afternoon from panic-scrubbing audio to writing the story.
Tomás H.Investigative journalist · Found the quote Honestly? I use it because I miss things in lectures. Having the transcript plus practice questions makes studying feel way less chaotic.
Hannah W.Graduate student · Less exam panic Depositions come back accurate and properly speaker-separated, and crucially nothing I upload is used to train a model. For client work that point is non-negotiable, and it is the reason I trust this above anything else I have tried.
Ravi P.Solo legal practitioner · Private depositions I used to tell myself I would repurpose long videos and then absolutely not do it. Pepys gives me the transcript, chapters, and hook ideas, which means the clips actually happen instead of living forever on my to-do list.
Daniel K.YouTube creator · Long video to shortsI record review sessions for students who miss class, then export a transcript and captions. The best part is that it helps the students who need text, captions, or a second pass without making me rebuild the lesson from scratch.
Naomi L.High school teacher · Students got support faster
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