Sermon Audio to Text
Upload a sermon recording and get a clean, readable transcript in minutes – ready to share with the congregation or save to your archive.
Accepts your sermon recording – audio or video (MP3, M4A, WAV, MP4…) · returns a clean, timestamped, readable transcript.
60 min free · no card required · we never train on your audio
How do I convert a sermon to text?
To convert a sermon to text, upload the audio recording to Pepys and it returns a clean, timestamped transcript in minutes, in 99+ languages, with an AI summary built in. Share the message in writing, build a searchable sermon archive, or repurpose it for a newsletter. Your first 60 minutes are free, no card required.
How sermon to text works
Upload the sermon
Drop in the audio or video recording of the message – any format, any length.
Get the transcript
AI transcribes the whole sermon into clean, timestamped text in minutes.
Share or export
Read the AI summary, edit anything inline, then export to TXT, Markdown, DOCX, PDF, SRT, or VTT to post or print.
Not everyone can be in the room, and a recording sitting on a phone is easy to lose. Pepys turns a sermon into text: upload the audio and you get the whole message as a clean, timestamped transcript you can email to members who missed it, post on the church site, or keep in a searchable archive.
Every transcript comes with an AI summary, so a 45-minute message becomes a short recap for the bulletin or a midweek email, and the full text is there when someone wants to revisit a passage. It works in 99+ languages, you pay only for the minutes you transcribe, 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
RawUpload any recording – build a readable, shareable text version of every message
Clean, timestamped text ready for the website, an email, or a printed handout
AI summary built in – turn a long sermon into a short recap for the bulletin
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 Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, Box, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Rumble, Kwai, a Twitch or Kick clip, 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
- Rumble
- Kwai
- Twitch
- Kick
- Spotify
- Apple Podcasts
- Dropbox
- Box
- or any file
Export to any format
- TXT
- Markdown
- DOCX
- SRT
- VTT
- JSON
Timestamps, speaker labels, and subtitle timing carry through to every export.
Sermon to text – questions, answered
How do I convert a sermon to text?
Upload the sermon recording on this page and Pepys returns a clean, timestamped transcript in minutes. Your first 60 minutes are free, no card required.
Can I transcribe a long sermon?
Yes – there's no length limit. Long recordings are chunked and stitched back together automatically with correct timestamps.
Can I share or print the transcript?
Yes. Export to TXT, Markdown, DOCX, PDF, SRT, or VTT to post on the church site, email to members, or print as a handout.
Does it work for sermons in other languages?
Yes. Language is auto-detected across 99+ languages, and you can translate the finished transcript into another language afterward.
Do you keep the recording?
Only as long as needed to transcribe it, and you can auto-delete it after. We never train AI on your audio or transcripts.
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