Pull Exact Quotes from an Interview
Upload an interview recording and get the verbatim, timestamped quotes you can drop straight into your article – with the source moment attached.
Accepts your interview recording – audio or video (MP3, M4A, WAV, MP4…) · returns a verbatim transcript with timestamped, speaker-attributed quotes.
60 min free · no card required · we never train on your audio
How do I pull exact quotes from an interview?
To pull exact quotes from an interview, upload the recording to Pepys and it transcribes the audio into a verbatim, timestamped, speaker-labeled transcript and surfaces the notable quotes for you, in 99+ languages. Every quote links back to where it was said, so you can cite it with confidence. Your first 60 minutes are free, no card.
How quote transcription works
Upload the interview
Drop in the audio or video recording of your interview – any format, any length.
Get the transcript and quotes
AI transcribes it verbatim with speaker labels and timestamps, then surfaces the strongest quotes.
Verify and copy
Click any quote to hear the exact moment, copy it word for word, or ask chat to find more.
When you're writing it up, you need the exact words – not a paraphrase you'll have to scrub the recording to verify. Pepys gives you a verbatim, speaker-labeled transcript of the interview and pulls out the notable quotes, each pinned to the timestamp where it was said, so you can lift a line and trust it's right.
Need a quote on a specific topic? Ask built-in chat and it returns the passages with timestamps you can jump to and check against the audio. It works in 99+ languages, every quote traces back to the source moment, 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
RawVerbatim, speaker-attributed transcript – copy quotes exactly as they were said
AI surfaces the strongest quotes, each pinned to its timestamp for fast fact-checking
Ask chat for quotes on any topic and jump straight to the moment to verify
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.
Quote transcription – questions, answered
How do I pull exact quotes from an interview?
Upload the recording on this page and Pepys transcribes it verbatim with timestamps and speaker labels, then surfaces the notable quotes. Click any quote to verify the exact moment. Your first 60 minutes are free, no card.
Are the quotes word for word?
Yes – the transcript is verbatim, and each surfaced quote links back to the timestamp where it was said, so you can confirm the exact wording against the audio before you publish.
Can I find quotes about a specific topic?
Yes. Ask the built-in chat and it returns the relevant passages with timestamps you can jump to, so you can find the right line without scrubbing the whole recording.
Will I know which speaker said it?
Yes – the transcript is speaker-labeled, so every quote is attributed to a speaker and a timestamp.
Does this work for non-English interviews?
Yes. Language is auto-detected across 99+ languages, and you can translate the finished transcript afterward while keeping the original quotes intact.
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