Speech to Text
Convert recorded speech into accurate, timestamped, speaker-labeled text online – upload the file and read it in minutes.
Accepts any audio or video file with speech – MP3, M4A, WAV, MP4 and more · returns a clean, timestamped transcript.
60 min free · no card required · we never train on your audio
How do I convert speech to text?
To convert speech to text, upload your recording to Pepys and it transcribes the spoken words into a clean, timestamped, speaker-labeled transcript in minutes, in 99+ languages, with an AI summary built in. No app to install. Your first 60 minutes are free, no card required.
How speech to text works
Upload your recording
Drop in the audio or video file – we extract and prepare the speech for you.
Get your text
AI converts the speech into clean, speaker-labeled text with timestamps in minutes.
Edit and export
Polish anything inline, then export to TXT, Markdown, DOCX, PDF, SRT, VTT, or JSON.
Typing out a recording by hand is slow and error-prone. Pepys does the speech-to-text for you: upload any file with people talking and it returns an accurate, speaker-labeled transcript in minutes – ready to search, quote, and share. It's a free online converter, so there's no download and no setup.
Behind it sits a modern speech recognition model that handles accents, crosstalk, and long recordings, splitting big files and stitching them back together with correct timestamps. It works in 99+ languages, auto-detected, with an AI summary and built-in chat. Your first 60 minutes are free, 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
RawFree to start – your first 60 minutes are on us, no card
Accurate across accents and crosstalk, with speaker labels and timestamps
Handles long recordings – we chunk and stitch big files automatically
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.
Speech to text – questions, answered
How do I convert speech to text?
Upload your recording on this page – the first 60 minutes are free, no card. Pepys converts the speech into clean, timestamped text in minutes, which you can edit and export.
Is this speech to text really free?
Yes – you can try it with no signup, and your first 60 minutes are free with a free account, no card required. After that it's pay-as-you-go and credits never expire.
How accurate is the speech recognition?
Pepys uses a modern speech recognition model that copes well with accents, background chatter, and overlapping speakers. You can edit any word inline before exporting.
Does it work in other languages?
Yes – language is auto-detected across 99+ languages, and you can translate the finished transcript into another language afterward.
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