Upload a file
Open the transcribe page and drop a file in, or press the upload button and choose one. Pepys takes audio and video – MP3, WAV, M4A, MP4, MOV, and the formats a phone or a recorder produces – and pulls the audio out of a video file itself.
A free account accepts files up to 1 GB, which is comfortably more than an hour of lossless audio. Once you have bought credits the limit rises to 5 GB, and a single recording can be up to 10 hours long.
Or paste a link
If the recording is already online, paste the link instead. YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts links are resolved directly, as are podcast RSS feeds and Zoom, Google Drive, and OneDrive files.
Pasting a link means nothing has to be downloaded and re-uploaded by hand. For Drive and OneDrive it doubles as the import route – see Google Drive for how the permission step works.
What you get back
Transcription runs in the background rather than blocking the page, so you can start a long recording and come back to it. When the job finishes, the transcript opens with speaker-labeled, timestamped segments you can click to jump to that moment in the audio.
An AI summary and the key moments are generated alongside it, and you can translate the transcript into another language. The transcript chat answers questions about the recording with cited timestamps.
Taking the transcript with you
Every transcript exports in TXT, Markdown, DOCX, PDF, SRT, VTT, and JSON. SRT and VTT carry the timings, so they are the ones to reach for when the transcript is going onto a video or into a player; DOCX and PDF are the readable documents.
Transcripts stay in your account, so you can come back for another export later instead of keeping a local copy of every format. Your account holds them along with the credit balance.
Good to know
Everything is billed per minute against your credits at 1 credit = 1 minute, including the 60 free minutes from signup. See credits and free minutes.
Speaker labels (diarization) come with any credit purchase rather than a subscription, as do whole-feed podcast batches and word-level export. See pricing.