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To transcribe a media mention, upload the broadcast, radio, or podcast clip or paste its link and Pepys returns a speaker-labeled, searchable transcript in minutes, plus an AI summary, key points, and the verbatim quotes your report needs. It is pay-as-you-go with no subscription, and credits never expire.
Made for media monitoring teams
A mention is worthless until it's text. Every clip your team captures off TV, radio, or a podcast is locked inside audio you have to sit through in real time, and the part that matters, the exact words, the sentiment, the named brand, is buried somewhere in the middle. Media monitoring teams live and die by turnaround: the client wants to know who said what, in what tone, and whether it helps or hurts, before the next news cycle buries it. You can't scrub a timeline for a quote when a coverage report is due at nine.
Media monitoring transcription has to do more than spit out a wall of words. Speaker labels keep the anchor apart from the correspondent and the soundbite, so your clip log credits the right voice instead of pinning the brand line on the wrong person. Word-level timestamps let you click straight to the moment a claim is made and confirm it before it lands in the brief, and full-text search means a six-month-old mention surfaces by a phrase, not a timecode you forgot.
Coverage reports & briefs
A drafted summary and key points pulled straight from the clip, ready to paste into the client brief that's due before the next cycle.
Exact quote pulls
The verbatim soundbites surfaced and timestamped, so you cite the line word-for-word without rewinding the tape.
A searchable mention archive
Every TV, radio, and podcast clip becomes full-text searchable, so you can find an old mention by a phrase instead of a timecode.
Foreign-language mentions
Coverage in another language detected automatically and turned into text you can read and quote in your working language.
Built in, not bolted on
A summary, the key points, and verbatim quotes, pulled for you
Every clipis analyzed automatically the moment it’s transcribed. Here’s a real sample, run through it.
Broadcast Mention: Harbor & Vale Sparkling Water Recall
An evening news segment covers beverage maker Harbor & Vale recalling about 200,000 cases of sparkling water over a labeling error, not a contamination of the drink. Correspondent Dana Whitfield credits the company's speed: it recalled voluntarily before any illness was reported, and the CEO's quote, 'we would rather lose a quarter than lose your trust,' is the line traveling across coverage. Early sentiment was harsh but turned sympathetic once people learned no one was hurt, and the stock recovered most of an early 3% dip by midday.
Key points
- The recall covers about 200,000 cases of sparkling water and was triggered by a labeling error, not a safety defect in the drink itself, after some cans shipped without listing a milk-based additive that poses a risk to people with a dairy allergy.
- The company recalled voluntarily before a single illness was reported, and the CEO put her name on the statement within hours.
- Sentiment is split but improving: the early coverage was harsh, then the tone shifted once people learned no one was hurt and the recall was voluntary, leaving a sympathetic next-day story.
- Financial impact was limited, with the stock down about three percent at the open and clawing most of it back by midday, which analysts attribute to the speed of the response.
- The named brand is Harbor & Vale, the on-air quote driving coverage is 'we would rather lose a quarter than lose your trust,' and the correspondent's takeaway is that brands should report it before a reporter does.
Clean, speaker-labeled, click-to-seek
Ask, don’t scrub
Ask the transcript anything.
An hour-long recording? Don’t skim it – ask. Every answer stays grounded in your transcript and cites the exact timestamp, so you can jump to the moment and check it yourself.
Was the sparkling water actually contaminated, or is this something else?
It wasn't a contamination of the drink. The correspondent says the recall was triggered by a labeling error, not a safety defect in the drink itself, after some cans shipped without listing a milk-based additive that's a real risk for someone with a dairy allergy. The recall covers about two hundred thousand cases of the sparkling water.
How did the market and the public react to the recall?
The stock dipped about three percent at the open and clawed most of it back by midday, which analysts credited to the speed of the response. Public sentiment was split: the early coverage was harsh, then the tone shifted once people learned no one was hurt and the recall was voluntary, leaving a sympathetic next-day story.
Grounded in your transcript – if the answer isn’t in the audio, it says so instead of guessing.
Who said what
Speaker labels that survive cross-talk
Automatic speaker diarization. Two people, four people, cross-talk and interruptions – interviews, panels, messy meetings. Pepys keeps each voice on its own line instead of blurring them into one, so you never rewind to figure out who was talking.
So the festival nearly didn't happen this year–
–it almost didn't. We lost the venue three weeks out.
Three weeks? How do you even start to–
You call everyone you know. The whole town pitched in.
And that's how it ended up in the park.
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How media monitoring transcription works
Upload or paste a link
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Edit and export
Fix anything inline, then export to SRT, VTT, TXT, DOCX, PDF, or JSON.
Why media monitoring teams pick Pepys
No subscription, no seat licenses, pay per clip, and credits never expire.
The summary and quote pulls are built in, not a second copy-paste into another tool.
Paste a YouTube, podcast, or direct media URL, no downloading the broadcast first.
Speaker labels keep the anchor, the correspondent, and the soundbite apart.
What media monitoring teams say
had ~2 hrs of interviews to get through on deadline. uploaded the lot, got it back speaker-labeled and fully searchable, so i could jump straight to the quote i half-remembered instead of scrubbing the timeline for twenty minutes. genuinely saved the story.
Tomás H.Investigative journalist · Reddit Every user interview comes back as a clean, searchable transcript I can tag and quote directly in my reports. Synthesis used to be the slowest part of my week and now it's an afternoon. The speaker labels alone are worth it for me.
Sofia L.UX researcher · G2 Every customer call lands in my notes the same day and nothing slips through anymore. I buy minutes when I need them, with no recurring charge to forget about. Simple, and it works.
Caleb S.Sales lead · G2
Media monitoring transcription – questions, answered
How do I transcribe a broadcast or podcast mention?
Paste the clip's link (YouTube, a podcast URL, or a direct media URL) or upload the file. Pepys returns a speaker-labeled, searchable transcript in minutes, plus an AI summary, key points, and the verbatim quotes you need for a coverage report.
Can it separate the anchor from the correspondent and the soundbite?
Yes. Speaker diarization splits each voice, so a news segment with an anchor, a correspondent, and a quoted clip comes back labeled rather than as one block of text. You can rename a speaker and it updates everywhere.
Will the quotes come back word-for-word?
Yes. The transcript is verbatim and timestamped, so the exact soundbite you need to cite is right there, and you can click any line to jump to that moment in the audio to confirm it.
Can it handle mentions in other languages?
Yes. It auto-detects the spoken language across 99+ languages, so foreign-language coverage comes back as readable text, and you can translate it into the working language your report is written in.
What can I export for a clip?
A verbatim transcript as DOCX, SRT and VTT captions, plain text, and a PDF. One click each, ready to attach to a brief or drop into your archive.
Is my client's coverage kept private?
Yes. We never train on the audio or text you upload, and you can delete a clip and its transcript at any time, which matters when the mention is under embargo or tied to a client account.
Do I have to subscribe?
No. Pepys is pay-as-you-go, buy a block of minutes, use them whenever a story breaks, and the credits never expire. You can start free with 60 minutes, no card.
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