About Pepys
Turn your recordings
into records.
A recording isn't a record until you can read it, search it, and keep it. We're named for the diarist whose words sat unreadable until someone transcribed them – we do the same for yours, in minutes.
The namesake
Samuel Pepys, and the gap he left.
In 1660s London, Samuel Pepys – a naval administrator with an eye for detail – kept a private diary. He wrote it in shorthand, a published system of the day that had fallen out of use, which is why almost no one could later read it. He set down the Great Fire and a quiet domestic evening in the same plain hand, a faithful eyewitness writing without hype.
But shorthand on a page is not the same as something you can read. For more than a century and a half the diary stayed unreadable, until a young Cambridge scholar, John Smith, was hired to decipher it line by line and turn it into readable English. Only then could anyone actually read what Pepys had written.
That is the whole idea. Spoken words live the same way Pepys's diary did – present, recorded, but unreadable until someone transcribes them. A recording is shorthand for the voices inside it. The gap between what was said and what anyone can read is the gap we close – and the difference is that the deciphering now takes minutes instead of decades.
What we're building
Transcription you own, summarized and searchable.
Pepys is pay-as-you-go transcription. Paste a link or upload a file, in 99+ languages – no downloading the video first; we pull the audio straight from the link.
What comes back is a speaker-labeled transcript you can correct inline, already summarized for what the recording is, and ready to be questioned with answers cited to the exact second.
You buy hours once. The credits never expire, and we never train on your audio.
Turning speech into text is the easy part now. The work is what comes after: the marks become a faithful record you can read, search, question, correct, and keep.
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What we believe
The principles behind the product.
Own the hours, don't rent the tool
No subscription, nothing to cancel. Pay as you go – one credit is one minute – and buy hours when you need them. They never expire, so a quiet season costs nothing. Start with 60 minutes free, no card.
Done, not just transcribed
The AI runs on every transcript, drafting a summary shaped to the recording – show notes, meeting decisions, study notes, and more – each with a layout to match, switchable in a click.
Answers you can check
The built-in chat answers only from what was said and cites the timestamp for each claim, like (2:14), so you can jump back and verify. If it isn't in the recording, it tells you instead of inventing it.
Your audio stays yours
We never train on your audio. Source media is auto-purged 30 days after upload; your transcript and exports stay. A faithful record-keeper keeps a confidence.
Bring it from wherever it lives
Paste a link – YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, RSS – or upload a file. 99+ languages auto-detected at one flat rate, with translation that keeps the timestamps aligned.
Yours to finish and take
Transcripts are speaker-labeled and editable inline – rename a speaker once and it updates everywhere. Then export to TXT, Markdown, DOCX, PDF, SRT, VTT, or JSON.
Who it's for
Built for people who transcribe in bursts.
Creators & podcasters
Show notes, hooks, clips, and subtitles out of the same pass – with volume that's uneven month to month, so a recurring bill rarely fits.
Journalists & researchers
Speaker-labeled interview transcripts plus themes and verbatim quotes, and the ability to ask where a topic came up and jump to the second to verify it.
Students & educators
Lectures turned into study notes and searchable text, transcribed in bursts around the term rather than evenly all year.
Teams & professionals
Meetings, calls, and interviews captured with the decisions and action items – without standing up a subscription for occasional use.
Anyone who works in bursts
A court reporter between trials, a researcher in fieldwork season – where credits that never expire beat a bill that runs all year.
Why “Pepys”?
Samuel Pepys wrote one of the most faithful records in the English language, and it only became readable once someone transcribed it. We do the same work for any recording – faithfully, and in minutes. The name is a nod to the work, not a costume.
Rhymes with “peeps.”
Don't just take our word for it.
Ask ChatGPT, Claude, or Perplexity what Pepys is and who it's for. One click, and your favorite AI does the homework.
A record worth keeping, in minutes.
Start with 60 minutes free, no card required. Buy hours when you need them – they never expire.
And so to bed.