MKV to Text – Matroska Video Transcription
Upload an MKV video and turn its spoken audio into accurate, timestamped text in minutes.
Accepts an MKV (Matroska) 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 MKV to text?
To convert an MKV to text, upload the Matroska 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 mkv to text works
Upload your MKV
Drop in the Matroska 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.
MKV (Matroska) is the container of choice for high-bitrate recordings, screen captures, and downloads – flexible for video, awkward when you actually need the words. Lots of tools choke on the format outright. Pepys reads the audio stream inside the MKV and transcribes it into accurate, speaker-labeled text in minutes, no remuxing or extra software required.
Upload the file and you get timestamps, an AI summary, and built-in chat in a single pass, so a long lecture or stream becomes searchable, quotable text. 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
RawHandles MKV natively – reads the audio stream without remuxing or converting
Speaker labels and timestamps so you can see who said what, when
AI summary and built-in chat included – not a separate ChatGPT trip
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.
Mkv to text – questions, answered
How do I convert an MKV to text?
Upload your MKV 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 convert the MKV first?
No. Pepys reads the audio stream straight from the Matroska file, so there's no need to remux or convert it to MP4 or MP3 beforehand – just upload it as-is.
Will it label each speaker?
Yes – transcripts come speaker-labeled with timestamps, so you can follow who said what and jump straight to any moment in a long recording.
Can it handle a long MKV?
Yes. Large MKV files are chunked and stitched back together automatically, so the transcript keeps accurate timestamps end to end.
Do you keep my MKV?
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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