Transcribe German Video
Point Pepys at a German video – upload it or paste a link – and get a timestamped transcript plus subtitle files in minutes.
Accepts a German video (MP4, MOV, MKV and more) or a link · returns a timestamped German transcript, with SRT/VTT subtitle export.
60 min free · no card required · we never train on your audio
How do I transcribe a German video?
Hand Pepys the file or a link, and it pulls the audio, writes the German speech out as a timestamped transcript, and exports SRT or VTT subtitles to load alongside the video. It is built for Hochdeutsch and for the Austrian and Swiss German (Schweizerdeutsch) that strays well off standard, keeps long compound nouns and end-of-clause verbs whole, and auto-detects German among 99+ languages. First 60 minutes free, no card.
How transcribe german video works
Add your German video
Upload the file or paste a link – Pepys strips the audio for you, nothing to convert.
Get transcript & subtitles
The German speech comes back as timestamped text plus caption cues, ß and umlauts intact.
Export
Download the transcript (TXT, Markdown, DOCX, PDF, SRT, VTT, or JSON) or grab an SRT/VTT subtitle file with the timing already set.
From a Tagesschau-style news clip to a university Vorlesung to a Reel shot in Zurich, German video runs the full range, and the speaker decides which German you get. A presenter in Cologne is one thing; a vlogger speaking broad Swiss German is close to a different language, the kind even Germans watch with captions on. Pepys handles that range, so your video comes back as an accurate, timestamped transcript – with SRT or VTT subtitles you can load right alongside it.
The catch with German video is that the speech itself is dense: nouns pile up into single long words and the decisive verb often waits until the clause is nearly over, both of which generic captioners chop apart. Pepys is built to keep them intact and to spell ß, ä, ö and ü correctly, even when the room is loud. German is one of 99+ auto-detected 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
RawGerman video to timestamped text · plus SRT/VTT subtitles you load alongside the video
Built for Hochdeutsch, Austrian and Swiss German (Schweizerdeutsch), and noisy, real-world room audio
Compound nouns and verb-final clauses kept whole; ß and ä/ö/ü spelled correctly
99+ languages including German, 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 german video – questions, answered
How do I transcribe a German video?
Upload the video or paste a link – first 60 minutes free, no card. Pepys extracts the audio and returns a timestamped German transcript plus subtitle files in minutes.
Can I get German subtitles from the video too?
Yes – alongside the transcript you can export German captions as a downloadable SRT or VTT sidecar file with the timing already matched to the video.
What about Swiss or Austrian speakers on camera?
Pepys is built for them. Hochdeutsch is straightforward; Austrian German and the further-flung Swiss German (Schweizerdeutsch) are exactly the harder cases it targets, and you can correct any line inline.
Which video formats work?
MP4, MOV, MKV, WEBM, AVI and more, plus links. Pepys extracts the audio track and transcribes the speech – you never have to convert anything first.
Is my video private?
Yes. We never train on your video or transcripts, and you can auto-delete files after processing.
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