Turn Any Audio File into a Transcript
Upload any audio file and get back a clean, timestamped, speaker-labeled transcript in minutes.
Accepts any audio file – MP3, M4A, WAV, AAC, FLAC, OGG and more · returns a clean, timestamped, speaker-labeled transcript.
60 min free · no card required · we never train on your audio
How do I turn an audio file into a transcript?
To turn audio into a transcript, upload your recording to Pepys and it transcribes the audio into a clean, timestamped, speaker-labeled transcript in minutes, in 99+ languages, with an AI summary and built-in chat. Read it, edit it, and export it. Your first 60 minutes are free, no card required.
How audio to transcript works
Upload your audio
Drop in any audio file – any format, any language, no length limit to worry about.
Get your transcript
AI transcribes the recording into clean, speaker-labeled text with timestamps in minutes.
Read, edit, or export
Skim the text, fix anything inline, then export to TXT, Markdown, DOCX, PDF, SRT, VTT, or JSON.
A recording you can't read is hard to use – you can't search it, quote it, or skim it. Pepys fixes that: upload any audio file and it hands back a full transcript with timestamps and speaker labels, so an hour of audio becomes text you can scan in seconds and copy straight into your notes.
It works across 99+ languages with the language auto-detected, ships with an AI summary and built-in chat so you can ask questions instead of replaying, and chunks long files automatically. Your first 60 minutes are free, credits never expire, and we never train on your audio.
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
RawAny audio format in – a clean, readable transcript out
Timestamps and speaker labels so you can see who said what, when
AI summary and built-in chat included – not just a wall of text
99+ languages, auto-detected · we never train on your audio · credits never expire
Any language – 99+ detected automatically
- English
- 中文
- Español
- العربية
- हिन्दी
- Français
- 日本語
- Português
- Русский
- Deutsch
- 한국어
- Italiano
- বাংলা
- Türkçe
- فارسی
- Tiếng Việt
- தமிழ்
- Polski
- ไทย
- Українська
- Nederlands
- עברית
- Ελληνικά
- తెలుగు
- Bahasa Indonesia
- اردو
- Svenska
- मराठी
- Română
- Magyar
- Čeština
- ગુજરાતી
- Kiswahili
- ქართული
- Tagalog
- አማርኛ
Works with the platforms you live in.
Paste a link from YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts – or drop in any audio or video file. We transcribe it once, then you export it however your workflow needs.
- YouTube
- TikTok
- Spotify
- Apple Podcasts
- or any file
Export to any format
- TXT
- Markdown
- DOCX
- SRT
- VTT
- JSON
Timestamps, speaker labels, and subtitle timing carry through to every export.
Audio to transcript – questions, answered
How do I turn an audio file into a transcript?
Upload your audio on this page – the first 60 minutes are free, no card. Pepys transcribes it into clean, timestamped, speaker-labeled text in minutes, ready to edit and export.
Which audio formats can I upload?
MP3, M4A, WAV, AAC, FLAC, OGG and more – including video files, which we transcribe by the audio track. We prepare the file automatically before transcribing.
How long can my recording be?
There's no length limit. Long recordings are split and stitched back together automatically with correct timestamps, so a three-hour file comes back as one continuous transcript.
Can I get a transcript in another language?
Yes – language is auto-detected across 99+ languages, and you can translate the finished transcript into another language. We never train AI on your audio or transcripts.
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