Indonesian Audio to Text
Upload Indonesian audio or paste a link and get a timestamped transcript – formal baku, casual gaul, and the English code-switching in between.
Accepts Indonesian audio or video – MP3, M4A, WAV, MP4 and more, or a link · returns a clean, timestamped Indonesian transcript.
60 min free · no card required · we never train on your audio
How do I turn Indonesian audio into text?
To turn Indonesian audio into text, upload your file or paste a link to Pepys. It listens for both formal baku Indonesian and the loose, slang-heavy Jakarta register, follows the constant switching into English and regional words, and returns a clean, timestamped transcript in minutes. Indonesian is auto-detected among 99+ languages, and AI summaries come built in. Your first 60 minutes are free, no card.
How indonesian audio to text works
Upload or paste a link
Drop in an Indonesian recording or paste a link – any format, nothing to install.
Get your transcript
Pepys writes the Indonesian speech out as clean, timestamped text in minutes.
Edit and export
Fix a slang spelling or loanword inline, then export to TXT, Markdown, DOCX, PDF, SRT, VTT, or JSON.
For roughly 270 million people, Bahasa Indonesia is the shared tongue stretched over more than 700 mother languages – so what you actually record is rarely textbook Indonesian. A lecture leans formal and baku; a podcast or voice note slides into Jakarta gaul, with "gue" and "lo" instead of "saya" and "kamu," and an English or Javanese word dropped in mid-sentence. Pepys is tuned for that whole range. Upload an interview, a kuliah, a podcast episode, or a WhatsApp voice note and get back accurate, timestamped text you can search, quote, and translate.
The thing that throws off generic speech models here isn't the script – Indonesian writes cleanly in Latin letters – it's the code-switching and the casual contractions that never make it into a dictionary. Pepys is built to ride that. It's a quiet favourite of students grinding through skripsi interviews and transcribing fieldwork, where every "nggak," "udah," and "kayak" needs to land right. Indonesian is auto-detected among 99+ languages, 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
RawAccurate across registers – formal baku, everyday gaul, and the English mixed in
Timestamps and per-chunk speaker labels · export to TXT, Markdown, DOCX, PDF, SRT, VTT, or JSON
Translate the finished Indonesian transcript into another language in one click
99+ languages including Indonesian, auto-detected · we never train on your audio · credits never expire
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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.
Indonesian audio to text – questions, answered
How do I turn Indonesian audio into text?
Upload your Indonesian audio or paste a link on this page – the first 60 minutes are free, no card. Pepys returns a clean, timestamped Indonesian transcript within minutes.
Does it cope with slang and gaul, not just formal Indonesian?
Yes. It transcribes both baku Indonesian and the casual Jakarta register – "gue," "lo," "nggak," "banget" – and you can tidy any spelling inline before you export.
Why is Indonesian tricky to transcribe?
Mostly the constant code-switching into English and regional languages, plus contractions that aren't in any dictionary. Pepys handles it, and inline editing lets you perfect anything the model wasn't sure of.
What can I export?
TXT, Markdown, DOCX, PDF, SRT, VTT, or JSON, with timestamps preserved throughout.
Is my Indonesian audio private?
Yes. We never train AI on your audio or transcripts, and you can set files to auto-delete after processing.
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