Paste Any Link, Get a Transcript
Drop in almost any podcast, video, or audio URL and read it as clean, timestamped text in minutes.
Accepts almost any media link – a podcast, video, or audio URL (or upload a file) · returns a clean, timestamped transcript you can read and export.
Paste links to media you have the right to transcribe, and respect each source site's terms of use. For private or unsupported links, upload the file directly instead.
60 min free · no card required · we never train on your audio
How do I turn a link into a transcript?
To turn a link into a transcript, paste a podcast, video, or audio URL into Pepys and it transcribes it into a clean, timestamped, speaker-labeled transcript in minutes, in 99+ languages, with an AI summary built in. It recognizes most common sources automatically. No signup is needed to try it, and your first 60 minutes are free.
How link to transcript works
Paste your link
Drop in a podcast, video, or audio URL – Pepys figures out the source automatically.
Get the transcript
It fetches the media and transcribes it into clean, timestamped, speaker-labeled text in minutes.
Read or export
Skim the text, read the AI summary, edit inline, or export to TXT, Markdown, DOCX, PDF, SRT, VTT, or JSON.
You've got a link – an episode, a talk, a recording someone sent over – and you'd rather read it than sit through it. Pepys takes the URL and does the rest: it works out where the media lives, pulls it in, and hands back a clean, timestamped transcript you can search, quote, and share, no downloading or converting on your end.
One catch-all box covers most of what you'll throw at it, and if a link won't resolve you can always upload the file directly. It runs in 99+ languages with an AI summary built in, you pay only for what you transcribe, 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
RawOne box for most links – podcast, video, or audio URL, no converting first
Falls back to upload – paste a link or drop the file, whichever you have
AI summary and built-in chat – ask the transcript questions, get cited answers
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.
Link to transcript – questions, answered
How do I turn a link into a transcript?
Paste the media URL on this page – a podcast, video, or audio link – and Pepys transcribes it into clean, timestamped text in minutes. No signup is needed to try it, and your first 60 minutes are free.
What kinds of links work?
Most common podcast, video, and direct audio or video URLs. If a particular link won't resolve, just upload the file instead and Pepys transcribes it the same way.
Do I need to download or convert the media first?
No. Paste the link and Pepys fetches and prepares the media for you – including extracting audio from video – so there's nothing to download or convert by hand.
Can I transcribe a link in another language?
Yes – language is auto-detected across 99+ languages, and you can translate the finished transcript into another language.
Is it private?
Yes. We never train AI on your audio, transcripts, or summaries, and you can auto-delete your files after processing.
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