Church Service Transcription
Upload a recording of the service and get the sermon, prayers, and readings as clean, timestamped text in minutes.
Accepts a recording of the service – MP3, M4A, WAV, MP4 (or any audio/video file) · returns a clean, timestamped transcript of the service.
60 min free · no card required · we never train on your audio
How do I transcribe a church service?
To transcribe a church service, upload the recording to Pepys and it returns a clean, timestamped, speaker-labeled transcript of the sermon, prayers, and readings in minutes, in 99+ languages, with an AI summary built in. Share the message in text and translate it for your congregation. Your first 60 minutes are free, no card required.
How church service transcription works
Upload the service recording
Drop in the audio or video of the sermon or full service – any format, any length.
Get the transcript
AI transcribes the message into clean, speaker-labeled text with timestamps in minutes.
Share or export
Read the AI summary, edit inline, then export to TXT, Markdown, DOCX, PDF, SRT, or VTT for the bulletin, blog, or archive.
A sermon reaches the room on Sunday, but the words can keep working all week. Upload your service recording and Pepys turns the message, the readings, and the prayers into clean, timestamped text – ready for the church blog, the weekly bulletin, social posts, or members who couldn't make it in person.
Transcribing also makes the ministry searchable and accessible: a deaf or hard-of-hearing member can read along, and a sermon archive becomes something you can quote and study. It works in 99+ languages so you can transcribe and translate for a multilingual congregation, and we never train on your audio. Pay only for what you transcribe; credits never expire.
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
RawTurn every sermon into shareable text for the bulletin, blog, or archive
Speaker labels and timestamps so quotes and readings are easy to find
Makes services accessible – members can read along or catch up later
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.
Church service transcription – questions, answered
How do I transcribe a church service?
Upload the recording of the service or sermon on this page and Pepys returns a clean, timestamped transcript in minutes. Your first 60 minutes are free, no card required.
Can it handle a full-length service?
Yes – there's no length limit. Long services are split and stitched back together automatically with correct timestamps, so a full hour comes back as one clean transcript.
Will it label the pastor and other speakers?
Yes – transcripts come speaker-labeled with timestamps, so the sermon, readings, and announcements are easy to tell apart and quote.
Can I translate the sermon for our congregation?
Yes. Pepys auto-detects 99+ languages and you can translate the finished transcript, which is handy for multilingual congregations and mission outreach.
Are our recordings kept private?
Yes. We never train AI on your audio or transcripts, and you can auto-delete the files after processing.
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