MP4 to Text
Turn an MP4 video into accurate, speaker-labeled text – we strip the video and transcribe the audio, so you get a clean transcript in minutes.
Accepts MP4 video files – or a link · returns a clean, timestamped transcript you can edit and export.
60 min free · no card required · we never train on your audio
How do I convert an MP4 to text for free?
Pepys converts MP4 to text by extracting the audio from your video and transcribing it with AI. Upload an MP4 file or paste a link, and you get a clean, timestamped, speaker-labeled transcript in minutes, in 99+ languages, with AI summaries built in. Your first 60 minutes are free, no card.
How mp4 to text works
Upload your MP4 or paste a link
Drop in an MP4 video or paste a link – we read the audio track, so the picture doesn't matter.
Get your transcript
AI transcribes the audio into clean, speaker-labeled text with timestamps, ready in minutes.
Edit and export
Fix anything inline, then export to TXT, Markdown, DOCX, PDF, SRT, or VTT.
An MP4 is a video container, but most of the time it's the words you're after – the talk from a webinar, the dialogue in a screen recording, the speech in an interview. Pepys pulls the audio out of the MP4 and transcribes it, so you skip the screen-recorder workarounds and get text you can search, quote, and repurpose in minutes.
Because we only need the sound, file size and resolution don't slow you down – upload the MP4 or paste a link and Pepys returns a speaker-labeled, timestamped transcript with AI summaries and chapters built in. We never train on your video or audio, and credits 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
RawWe strip the video and transcribe only the audio – resolution doesn't matter
Speaker labels and timestamps on every transcript
AI summaries, chapters, and chat built in – not a separate ChatGPT trip
99+ languages, auto-detected · we never train on your video
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.
Mp4 to text – questions, answered
How do I convert an MP4 to text for free?
Upload your MP4 video or paste a link on this page – your first 60 minutes are free, no card required. Pepys reads the audio track and returns a clean, timestamped transcript in minutes that you can edit and export.
Do I need to convert the MP4 to audio first?
No. Pepys extracts the audio from the MP4 for you, so there's no need to rip out an MP3 or run any converter beforehand. Just drop in the video file.
Does the video quality or file size matter?
No – we only use the audio, so 4K, 1080p, or a tiny screen recording all transcribe the same way. Clear speech matters far more than picture quality.
Do you train on my video?
Never. We don't train AI on your video, audio, or transcripts, and you can auto-delete your files after processing.
Can I get subtitles for my MP4 (SRT/VTT)?
Yes – export the transcript as an SRT or VTT subtitle file with correct timestamps, ready to load back onto the video.
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