Voice Memo to Text (iPhone .m4a)
Upload an iPhone Voice Memo (.m4a) and get an accurate, timestamped transcript you can search, edit, and share.
Accepts an iPhone Voice Memo (.m4a) file (and other audio/video formats) · returns a clean, timestamped transcript with an AI summary.
60 min free · no card required · we never train on your audio
How do I convert an iPhone Voice Memo to text?
To turn an iPhone Voice Memo into text, share the .m4a file to Pepys and it transcribes the recording into a clean, timestamped transcript in minutes, in 99+ languages, with an AI summary built in. Search it, quote it, or paste it into your notes. Your first 60 minutes are free, no card required.
How voice memo to text works
Export your Voice Memo
In the Voice Memos app, tap Share and save or send the .m4a file to where you can upload it.
Upload it to Pepys
Drop the .m4a in and AI transcribes it into clean, timestamped text in minutes.
Read, edit, or export
Skim the text and AI summary, fix anything inline, then export to TXT, Markdown, DOCX, PDF, or SRT.
Voice Memos are perfect for capturing a thought, a meeting, or an interview on the spot – but a folder of .m4a files you can't search is a graveyard. Upload one to Pepys and it becomes text in minutes: every word transcribed, timestamped, and ready to search, quote, or drop into your notes.
It reads the .m4a iPhone records natively, so there's nothing to convert, and works in 99+ languages with an AI summary built in. Your first 60 minutes are free, you pay only for what you transcribe, credits never expire, and we never train on your audio.
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
RawReads the iPhone .m4a natively – no converting before you upload
Timestamps and an AI summary built in, so a rambling memo becomes a tidy note
Long memos handled automatically – we chunk and stitch large recordings
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.
Voice memo to text – questions, answered
How do I convert an iPhone Voice Memo to text?
Share the .m4a from the Voice Memos app and upload it here – the first 60 minutes are free, no card. Pepys transcribes it into clean, timestamped text in minutes, which you can edit and export.
Do I need to convert the .m4a first?
No – Pepys reads the .m4a format iPhone Voice Memos use directly, so you can upload the file straight from your phone without any conversion.
Can I transcribe a memo in another language?
Yes – language is auto-detected across 99+ languages, and you can translate the finished transcript into another language.
Will it work for a long recording?
Yes – long memos are split and stitched back together automatically with correct timestamps, so even a multi-hour recording comes back as one transcript.
Do you keep my recording?
Only as long as needed to transcribe it, and you can auto-delete it after. We never train AI on your audio or transcripts.
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