M4V to Text Transcription
Upload an M4V video and turn its spoken audio into accurate, timestamped text in minutes.
Accepts an M4V video file (and other video/audio formats) · returns a clean, timestamped transcript.
60 min free · no card required · we never train on your audio
How do I convert an M4V to text?
To convert an M4V to text, upload the M4V video to Pepys and it extracts the audio and transcribes it into a clean, timestamped, speaker-labeled transcript in minutes, in 99+ languages, with an AI summary built in. Your first 60 minutes are free, no card required.
How m4v to text works
Upload your M4V
Drop in the M4V file – Pepys pulls out the audio track and prepares it automatically.
Get your transcript
AI transcribes the speech into clean, speaker-labeled text with timestamps in minutes.
Edit and export
Edit inline, then export to TXT, Markdown, DOCX, PDF, SRT, VTT, or JSON.
M4V is Apple's video container, the format your iTunes and QuickTime exports often land in – great for playback, useless when you need to search, quote, or caption what was said. Pepys reads the audio inside the M4V and turns it into accurate, speaker-labeled text in minutes, no conversion or extra software needed.
Upload the file and you get timestamps, an AI summary, and built-in chat in one pass. Your first 60 minutes are free, 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
RawReads the audio inside the M4V directly – no separate extraction step
Speaker labels and timestamps so you can jump to any moment
Subtitle-ready – export SRT or VTT to caption the same video
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.
M4v to text – questions, answered
How do I convert an M4V to text?
Upload your M4V on this page – the first 60 minutes are free, no card. Pepys extracts the audio and transcribes it into clean, timestamped text in minutes, ready to edit and export.
Do I need to extract the audio first?
No. Pepys reads the audio track straight from the M4V, so you don't need to convert it to MP3 or M4A beforehand – just upload the video as-is.
Can I get subtitles for the M4V?
Yes – export the transcript as an SRT or VTT file with correct timestamps to use as a subtitle sidecar for the same video.
Can it handle a long video?
Yes. Long M4V files are chunked and stitched back together automatically, so the transcript keeps accurate timestamps end to end.
Do you keep my M4V?
Only as long as needed to transcribe it, and you can auto-delete it after. We never train AI on your video, audio, or transcripts.
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