Transcribe interviews for journalists
Upload your interview recording and get verbatim, speaker-labeled quotes with timestamps you can verify and cite – ready in minutes.
Accepts your interview recording – MP3, M4A, WAV, MP4 or any audio/video file · returns a verbatim, speaker-labeled transcript with timestamps for every quote.
60 min free · no card required · we never train on your audio
How do I transcribe an interview for a story?
To transcribe an interview for journalism, upload the recording to Pepys and it returns a verbatim, speaker-labeled, timestamped transcript in minutes, in 99+ languages, so you can lift exact quotes and jump to the moment to fact-check them. Your first 60 minutes are free, no card required.
How journalism transcription works
Upload your interview
Drop in the recording – phone memo, field audio, or call recording, any format.
Get verbatim quotes
AI transcribes it word-for-word into speaker-labeled text with timestamps in minutes.
Verify and pull quotes
Click a timestamp to hear the line, copy the exact quote, then export to TXT, Markdown, DOCX, PDF, or JSON.
A quote is only as good as the recording behind it, and re-listening to an hour of tape to find one line burns the deadline. Pepys turns your interview into a verbatim transcript you can scan: who said what, exactly, with a timestamp on every passage so you can jump back to the source and confirm a quote before it runs.
It handles a noisy café, a phone call, or a two-source sit-down, separating each speaker so attribution is unambiguous. Work in 99+ languages with auto-detected translation for foreign-language sources, keep your tape private – we never train on your audio – and pay only for the minutes you transcribe, with credits that 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
RawVerbatim, word-for-word text – the exact quote, not a paraphrase
Speaker labels and timestamps so attribution is clear and every quote is verifiable
Jump-to-audio on any line to fact-check a quote before you publish
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.
Journalism transcription – questions, answered
How do I transcribe an interview for a story?
Upload the interview recording on this page and Pepys returns a verbatim, speaker-labeled transcript with timestamps in minutes. Your first 60 minutes are free, no card required.
Is the transcript verbatim enough to quote from?
Yes – Pepys transcribes word-for-word, and every passage carries a timestamp so you can click back to the audio and confirm a quote exactly before it goes to print.
Will it separate two or more interviewees?
Yes. Transcripts come speaker-labeled, so a two-source interview or a panel reads as distinct speakers and attribution stays clear throughout.
Can I transcribe a foreign-language source?
Yes – language is auto-detected across 99+ languages, and you can translate the finished transcript so a non-English source is still quotable and verifiable.
Is my tape kept confidential?
Yes. We never train AI on your audio or transcripts, and you can auto-delete the recording after it's transcribed.
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