Transcribe French Video
Upload a French video or paste a link – Pepys pulls the audio and gives you a timestamped transcript plus matching subtitle files.
Accepts a French video (MP4, MOV, MKV and more) or a link · returns a timestamped French transcript, with SRT/VTT subtitle export.
60 min free · no card required · we never train on your audio
How do I transcribe a French video?
Feed Pepys a French video or a link and it lifts the audio, writes the speech out as a timestamped transcript, and exports SRT or VTT captions alongside it – in minutes. Whether the video is Parisian, Québécois, Belgian, Swiss or West African French, it auto-detects the language and works through real-world room noise and music beds. Your first 60 minutes are free, no card.
How transcribe french video works
Drop in the French video
Upload the file or paste a link – Pepys strips the audio track for you, no separate export step.
Transcribe the speech
The French dialogue comes back as timestamped text and ready-to-time caption cues.
Export what you need
Take the full transcript (TXT, Markdown, DOCX, PDF, SRT, VTT, JSON) or just the SRT/VTT captions with timing aligned to the video.
A French video carries more than clean studio dialogue. A vlog has street noise behind the voice, a webinar has a music sting on every transition, a conférence has someone half off-mic at the back of the room. Pepys works through that: drop in a clip or paste a link, and it separates the speech from the mess to give you an accurate, timestamped French transcript – plus SRT or VTT subtitles you can load straight onto the video.
And the speech itself shifts with the speaker. A Montréal creator, a Brussels presenter, a Dakar interviewee and a Lyon journalist each pronounce French differently, and casual delivery chains words together with liaisons while swallowing syllables outright. Pepys is tuned for the whole range and for that run-together speech. French is auto-detected among 99+ languages, your first 60 minutes are free, credits never expire, and we never train on your video.
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
RawPulls clean French text out of noisy, real-world video – street, music beds, off-mic voices
Reads Metropolitan, Québécois, Belgian, Swiss and West African French, not one default accent
Get the full transcript and a matching SRT/VTT caption file from the same pass
99+ languages including French, auto-detected · we never train on your audio · credits never expire
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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.
Transcribe french video – questions, answered
How do I transcribe a French video?
Upload the video or paste a link – the first 60 minutes are free, no card. Pepys extracts the audio and returns a timestamped French transcript plus subtitle files within minutes.
Will it cope with background noise and music in the video?
Yes. It's built for real-world footage – traffic, room tone, a music bed under the talking – and isolates the French speech to transcribe it accurately.
Can I get French subtitles from the video too?
Yes – alongside the transcript you can export French captions as a downloadable SRT or VTT sidecar file, timed to the video.
Which video formats does it take?
MP4, MOV, MKV, WEBM, AVI and more, plus links. Pepys handles the audio extraction itself – you never have to convert anything first.
Is my video kept private?
Yes. We never train on your video or transcripts, and you can auto-delete the file after it's done.
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