Turn a Lecture into Study Notes
Upload a class recording or paste a link and let AI turn it into structured study notes you can actually revise from.
Accepts a lecture, class, or seminar recording – any audio/video file, or a link · returns structured AI study notes plus the full timestamped transcript.
60 min free · no card required · we never train on your audio
How do I turn a lecture into study notes?
To turn a lecture into study notes, upload the class recording or paste a link to Pepys. It transcribes the audio and writes structured notes – main topics, key terms, and takeaways – in minutes, in 99+ languages, grounded in a full timestamped transcript. Skip the re-listen and revise from the page. Your first 60 minutes are free, no card.
How study notes generator works
Upload the lecture or paste a link
Drop in your class recording or paste a link – any format, any language, no length limit.
Get your study notes
AI transcribes the lecture, then organizes it into structured notes with key terms and takeaways in minutes.
Revise, quiz, or export
Skim the notes, ask the lecture questions in chat, then export the notes and transcript to TXT, Markdown, DOCX, or PDF.
Re-watching a lecture to make notes is the slowest way to study. Hand the recording to Pepys instead: upload the file or paste a link and get back organized study notes – the main topics broken out, the key terms defined, and the takeaways you'd actually be tested on – so a 90-minute class collapses into a page you can revise from.
The notes are grounded in a full, timestamped transcript, so when something doesn't click you can jump to exactly where the lecturer explained it, or ask the lecture a question in built-in chat. It works across 99+ languages, we never train on your recordings, and you pay only for the minutes you process; 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
RawStructured notes – topics, key terms, and takeaways – not a raw transcript dump
Ask the lecture questions in built-in chat and jump to the timestamp behind any point
Grounded in a full timestamped transcript, so nothing is paraphrased away
99+ languages, auto-detected · we never train on your audio · credits never expire
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.
Study notes generator – questions, answered
How do I turn a lecture into study notes?
Upload the class recording or paste a link on this page. Pepys transcribes it and organizes it into structured study notes in minutes – your first 60 minutes are free, no card required.
What's in the notes versus the transcript?
The transcript is the full word-for-word text; the notes distill it into main topics, key terms, and takeaways. You get both, so you can revise from the notes and drop into the transcript whenever you need the exact wording.
Can I ask the lecture questions?
Yes. Built-in chat lets you ask things like "explain this concept again" or "what was the formula?" and the answers cite where in the lecture it was said.
Does it work for a lecture in another language?
Yes – Pepys auto-detects 99+ languages and writes notes in the spoken language, and you can translate the finished notes afterward.
Do you keep or train on my recordings?
No. We never train AI on your audio, transcripts, or notes, and you can auto-delete your files after processing.
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