Transcribe Sermons Free
Upload a sermon recording and get an accurate, timestamped transcript with an AI summary – ready to archive, publish, or study.
Accepts your sermon recording – audio or video (MP3, M4A, WAV, MP4…) · returns an accurate, timestamped transcript with an AI summary.
60 min free · no card required · we never train on your audio
How do I transcribe a sermon?
Pepys transcribes sermons free: upload the recording and it returns an accurate, timestamped transcript in minutes, in 99+ languages, with an AI summary built in. Keep a searchable sermon library, post the text for members, or pull study notes from the message. Your first 60 minutes are free, no card – then pay-as-you-go, nothing to cancel.
How sermon transcription works
Upload the recording
Drop in the sermon audio or video – any format, any length, no install.
Transcribe the message
AI transcribes the full sermon into accurate, timestamped text, ready in minutes.
Study or publish
Read the AI summary, ask questions in chat, then export to TXT, Markdown, DOCX, PDF, SRT, or VTT.
A weekly sermon is a growing archive of teaching that's locked inside audio nobody can search. Pepys frees it: upload each recording and get back an accurate, timestamped transcript, so a year of messages becomes a library you can search by topic, scripture, or phrase – and members can read instead of re-listening.
Beyond the full text, every sermon comes with an AI summary and built-in chat, so you can draft a recap, build a study guide, or find where a theme was preached in seconds. It works in 99+ languages, there's no subscription, 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
RawFree to start, no subscription – build a searchable sermon archive over time
Accurate, timestamped text members can read instead of replaying the audio
AI summary and chat built in – draft recaps or study notes from any message
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.
Sermon transcription – questions, answered
How do I transcribe a sermon?
Upload the sermon recording on this page and Pepys returns an accurate, timestamped transcript in minutes. Your first 60 minutes are free, no card required.
Is it really free?
Your first 60 minutes are free with a free account, no card. After that it's pay-as-you-go with no subscription, and credits never expire – so you only pay for the sermons you transcribe.
Can I build a searchable sermon library?
Yes. Each transcript is full, searchable text with timestamps, so a season of messages becomes a library you can search by topic, phrase, or scripture and revisit any time.
Can I get a summary or study notes?
Yes. Every sermon includes an AI summary, and built-in chat lets you ask for the main points or draft a study guide from the message.
Does it handle non-English sermons?
Yes – language is auto-detected across 99+ languages, and you can translate the finished transcript into another language afterward.
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Pay as you go – credits never expire, nothing to cancel. Or start free with 60 minutes, no card.