Interview audio → article quotes
Upload your interview recording and get a speaker-labeled transcript you can mine for exact, citable quotes.
Accepts your interview recording – MP3, M4A, WAV, MP4 and other audio/video files · returns a speaker-labeled, timestamped transcript you can mine for quotes.
60 min free · no card required · we never train on your audio
How do I transcribe an interview for an article?
To turn an interview into article quotes, upload the recording to Pepys and it returns a speaker-labeled, timestamped transcript in minutes. Search any line, copy quotes verbatim with the timestamp, or ask built-in chat to surface the best lines on a topic – in 99+ languages. Your first 60 minutes are free, no card required.
How transcribe interview for article works
Upload your interview
Drop in the recording – phone memo, recorder file, or call capture, any format, any language.
Get a speaker-labeled transcript
AI transcribes it into clean text with speaker labels and timestamps, so you can tell source from interviewer.
Pull your quotes
Copy lines verbatim with the timestamp, or ask chat to find the best quote on a theme – then drop it into your draft.
Writing the piece is fast; finding the line is what eats the afternoon. You remember the source said something perfect about the deadline, but it's somewhere in 70 minutes of tape. Pepys turns the recording into a speaker-labeled, timestamped transcript you can read in one pass – so the quote is searchable text, attributed to the right person, with the exact timecode for fact-checking.
Built-in chat works on top of the transcript: ask "what did she say about funding?" and it pulls the passage with its timestamp, grounded in what was actually said – never invented. Copy it word-for-word into your draft, in 99+ languages. We never train on your audio, and you pay only for the minutes you transcribe; 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
RawSpeaker labels keep source and interviewer apart – attribute every quote correctly
Search the whole interview and copy quotes verbatim, with timestamps for fact-checking
Ask chat to surface the best line on a topic – grounded in the transcript, never invented
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.
Transcribe interview for article – questions, answered
How do I transcribe an interview for an article?
Upload your interview recording on this page and Pepys returns a speaker-labeled, timestamped transcript in minutes. Search it, copy quotes verbatim, or ask chat to find the right line. Your first 60 minutes are free, no card.
Are the quotes accurate enough to publish?
Quotes are transcribed word-for-word with a timestamp, so you can play back the exact moment to confirm before you publish. Edit any line inline if the audio was unclear.
Can it tell the interviewer from the source?
Yes – transcripts are speaker-labeled, so you can see who said what and attribute each quote to the right person across the whole conversation.
Can I find a specific quote without reading the whole thing?
Yes. Search the transcript for a keyword, or ask built-in chat for the best quote on a theme and it returns the passage with its timestamp, grounded in the recording.
What about an interview in another language?
Language is auto-detected across 99+ languages, and you can translate the finished transcript – useful for quoting a source in your article's language.
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