Korean Audio to Text
Drop in Korean audio or paste a link and get back clean, timestamped Hangul – honorifics, fast speech, and satoori included.
Accepts Korean audio or video – MP3, M4A, WAV, MP4 and more, or a link · returns a clean, timestamped Korean transcript in Hangul.
60 min free · no card required · we never train on your audio
How do I convert Korean audio to text?
Upload your Korean recording or paste a link, and Pepys turns the speech into a timestamped transcript written in Hangul, usually in minutes. It follows the shift between 존댓말 and 반말, holds up against rapid-fire delivery, and auto-detects Korean among 99+ languages. Your first 60 minutes are free, no card.
How korean audio to text works
Upload or paste a link
Add a Korean recording or paste a link – any format, nothing to install.
Get your transcript
Pepys writes the speech out in correctly-spaced Hangul, with timestamps down to the minute.
Edit and export
Fix a name or a particle inline, then export to TXT, Markdown, DOCX, PDF, SRT, VTT, or JSON.
Korean has roughly 80 million speakers, and almost none of them talk the way a textbook reads. A Seoul standard (표준어) podcast, a Busan voice memo full of Gyeongsang pitch accent, a lecture that drops particles and contracts everything in casual 반말 – they are all Korean, and Pepys writes them all out in Hangul. Feed it an interview, a class recording, a phone call, or a quick voice note, and you get timestamped text you can search, quote, and translate, instead of replaying the file three times to catch one sentence.
The thing that breaks ordinary speech models on Korean is not the alphabet – it is everything layered on top. Speakers slide between honorific levels (해요체, 하십시오체) mid-conversation, fire syllables off faster than English, and trust spacing (띄어쓰기) rules that change a word's meaning entirely. Pepys is tuned for exactly that, which is why teams lean on it for meeting minutes (회의록) and researchers for interview coding. Korean 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
RawTranscribes Hangul with proper spacing, even through honorific shifts and rapid delivery
Timestamps and per-chunk speaker labels · export to TXT, Markdown, DOCX, PDF, SRT, VTT, or JSON
Translate the finished Korean transcript into another language in one click
99+ languages including Korean, 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.
Korean audio to text – questions, answered
How do I convert Korean audio to text?
Drop your Korean file on this page or paste a link – the first 60 minutes are free, no card. Pepys writes the speech out as timestamped Hangul, usually within minutes of upload.
Does it handle satoori and regional accents?
Yes. Beyond Seoul standard, it copes with Gyeongsang pitch accent, Jeolla and other regional satoori. Where a dialect word is unusual, you can correct it inline before exporting.
What actually makes Korean hard to transcribe?
Honorific speech levels that switch mid-sentence, fast casual delivery with dropped particles, and 띄어쓰기 spacing that decides where one word ends and the next begins. Pepys is built around those quirks, then hands you inline editing for the rest.
Does it write proper Hangul with spacing?
Yes – output is native Hangul with sensible word spacing applied, not a romanized or run-together approximation. Adjust any spacing or term inline before you export.
Is my Korean audio private?
Yes. We never train AI on your audio or transcripts, and you can set files to auto-delete after they finish processing.
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