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Transcript to Markdown

Upload a recording or paste a link and get a clean Markdown transcript – speaker headings and timestamps, ready for your notes or repo.

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Accepts an audio or video file – or a link to one · returns a clean Markdown (.md) transcript with speaker headings and timestamps.

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How do I convert a transcript to Markdown?

To get a transcript in Markdown, upload a recording or paste a link to Pepys and it transcribes the audio, then exports a clean .md file with speaker headings and timestamps. Drop it into Obsidian, Notion, a wiki, or a Git repo, in any of 99+ languages. Your first 60 minutes are free, no card required.

How transcript to markdown works

01

Upload audio or paste a link

Drop in a recording or paste a link – we extract the audio for you.

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Get your transcript

AI transcribes it into clean, speaker-labeled text with timestamps in minutes.

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Export to Markdown

Download a tidy .md file with speaker headings and timestamps – or export TXT, Markdown, DOCX, PDF, SRT, VTT, or JSON.

A .md export drops the transcript straight into your notes or repo: each speaker turn becomes a heading, every turn carries its timestamp, and there's no formatting to clean up. Pepys transcribes your audio or link and lays the Markdown out ready to commit or paste into Obsidian, Notion, a wiki, or a static-site post.

Writers turn a recorded conversation into a draft, engineers archive a design call next to the code, and students fold a lecture into their knowledge base. It works in 99+ auto-detected languages, ships with an AI summary you can keep at the top, and we never train on your audio. Pay only for what you transcribe; credits never expire.

What the Markdown looks like

transcript.md
## Speaker 1  [00:00]

Welcome back to the show.

## Speaker 2  [00:04]

Glad to be here. Let's get into it.
  • Clean .md – speaker headings and per-turn timestamps, ready for Obsidian, Notion, or a repo

  • No cleanup – the Markdown is laid out and ready to commit or publish

  • AI summary included, so you can keep the takeaways at the top of the file

  • 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.

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

Export to any format

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

Most useful for your work: Markdown

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

Transcript to markdown – questions, answered

How do I convert a transcript to Markdown?

Upload a recording or paste a link on this page – the first 60 minutes are free, no card. Pepys transcribes it and lets you download a clean .md file with speaker headings and timestamps.

How is the Markdown formatted?

Speakers become headings and each turn is laid out with its timestamp, so the file reads well in any Markdown viewer and slots into a notes app or repo without reformatting.

Can I edit it before exporting?

Yes – fix names, punctuation, or wording inline in Pepys first, then download the cleaned-up Markdown. The same transcript also exports to TXT, Markdown, DOCX, PDF, SRT, VTT, or JSON.

Does it work for other languages and multiple speakers?

Yes. Language is auto-detected across 99+ languages and transcripts come speaker-labeled – you can also translate the finished transcript before exporting.

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