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Transcribe Japanese Video

Upload a Japanese video or paste a link and walk away with a timestamped transcript and ready-to-load subtitles.

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Accepts a Japanese video (MP4, MOV, MKV and more) or a link · returns a timestamped Japanese transcript, with SRT/VTT subtitle export.

60 min free · no card required · we never train on your audio

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How do I transcribe a Japanese video?

Upload a Japanese video or paste a link, and Pepys pulls the audio, writes the speech into a timestamped transcript in mixed kanji and kana, and exports SRT or VTT captions you load alongside the file. It reads spaceless Japanese, sorts out homophone kanji from context, and auto-detects the language. Your first 60 minutes are free, no card.

How transcribe japanese video works

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Add your Japanese video

Upload the video or paste a link – Pepys strips the audio track for you.

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Get transcript & subtitles

The Japanese speech comes back as timestamped kanji-kana text and caption cues.

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Export

Download the transcript (TXT, Markdown, DOCX, PDF, SRT, VTT, or JSON) or grab the SRT/VTT captions with timing intact.

Video is where the hardest Japanese lives: a fast-talking YouTuber, a variety segment crowded with cross-talk, a lecture recording, a customer interview shot on a phone. Pepys strips the audio and writes it out the way it would be typed – kanji for the meaning, hiragana for the particles, katakana for the loanwords – instead of one undifferentiated kana stream. Because spoken Japanese carries no word boundaries, the model has to segment before it can spell, and because so many words are homophones, it leans on context to land on 機械 rather than 機会. That is the difference between captions you can ship and captions you have to rewrite.

It stays steady when a speaker slips into Kansai-ben or a regional accent, keeps polite keigo from collapsing into plain forms, and copes with the music beds and room noise of real footage. Out the other side you get a clean transcript plus an SRT or VTT file you load over the video – nothing burned into the picture. Japanese is auto-detected among 99+ languages, you can translate the result for an overseas audience, 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.

reel-voiceover.mp4

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

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  • Japanese video turned into timestamped, properly written kanji-kana text – plus SRT/VTT captions

  • Holds up against fast speech, cross-talk and the background noise of real footage

  • Follows regional dialects and keeps keigo intact instead of flattening it

  • 99+ languages including Japanese, auto-detected · we never train on your audio · credits never expire

Any language – 99+ detected automatically

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.

  • YouTubeYouTube
  • TikTokTikTok
  • InstagramInstagram
  • FacebookFacebook
  • SpotifySpotify
  • Apple PodcastsApple Podcasts
  • or any file

Export to any format

  • TXT
  • Markdown
  • DOCX
  • PDF
  • SRT
  • VTT
  • JSON

Timestamps, speaker labels, and subtitle timing carry through to every export.

Transcribe japanese video – questions, answered

How do I transcribe a Japanese video?

Upload the video or paste a link – first 60 minutes free, no card. Pepys extracts the audio and returns a timestamped Japanese transcript plus captions in minutes.

Can I get Japanese subtitles too?

Yes – alongside the transcript you can export Japanese captions as a downloadable SRT or VTT sidecar file with the timing already in place.

Does it cope with fast speech and dialects?

It is built for messy, real-world footage: rapid delivery, some cross-talk, background music, and regional speech like Kansai-ben. You can still fine-tune any line inline before exporting.

Which video formats work?

MP4, MOV, MKV, WEBM, AVI and more, plus links. Pepys pulls the audio out and transcribes the speech.

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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