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To transcribe a podcast, upload the episode audio or paste its link and Pepys returns a speaker-labeled transcript in minutes – plus AI-generated show notes, key topics, and pull-quotes. It's pay-as-you-go with no subscription, and credits never expire.
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Show notes, topics, and pull-quotes – drafted for you
Every episodeis analyzed automatically the moment it’s transcribed. Here’s a real sample, run through it.
Ship the Small One: A Solo Dev on Finishing a Game That Reached a Million Players
Indie developer Sofia Marsh spent four years building a hit game alone – after abandoning three others. Her core lesson is counterintuitive: the projects she lost all failed by growing, and the one she shipped survived because she halved its scope twice. Marsh explains the ten-minute test she uses to decide which features live or die, why she treats solo development as a scheduled job rather than a passion project to outlast burnout, and why the finishable version of any idea is hiding inside the ambitious one.
Guests
Key topics
Pull-quotes
- “The hardest skill in solo development isn't coding – it's deleting your own ideas.”
- “Does the player feel this in the first ten minutes?”
- “I treated it like a job with hours, not a passion I bled for.”
- “A schedule shows up on the bad days.”
- “The game you can actually finish is hiding inside the game you wish you could make.”
Show notes
- Sofia's track record: three abandoned games before the one that crossed a million players
- The core pattern – every project she lost failed by growing; the one she shipped had its scope halved twice
- The cut test – “does the player feel this in the first ten minutes?” – and the crafting system she deleted because nobody would miss it
- Beating burnout by treating solo dev as a scheduled job, not a passion project, and shipping on low-motivation days
- Closing advice: halve the scope twice and ship the small version first; build the ambitious one second
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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.
What's her main advice for finishing a project?
Make it smaller. She cut the shipped game's scope in half, twice, and says the hardest skill in solo development isn't coding, it's deleting your own ideas. Her closer: the game you can actually finish is hiding inside the game you wish you could make.
How did she avoid burning out over four years?
She treated it like a job with hours, not a passion she bled for – a schedule shows up on the bad days, so she shipped even when she didn't feel like it. She also ran a 'does the player feel this in the first ten minutes?' test to cut anything that didn't earn its keep.
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Who said what
Speaker labels that survive cross-talk
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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.
Show notes & descriptions
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Timestamped chapters
Jump-to markers so listeners can skim to the part they came for.
Pull-quotes & audiograms
The most quotable lines surfaced for you, ready to cut into social clips.
A searchable transcript page
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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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Most useful for podcasters: Chapters · Show notes (DOCX) · SRT · VTT · TXT
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Why podcasters pick Pepys
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Speaker labels keep host and guest from blurring together.
What podcasters say
Sunday night used to be show notes night. Now I upload the episode, skim the pull-quotes, and I am done before dinner.
Adam M.Podcast producer · Got Sunday backI used to tell myself I would repurpose long videos and then absolutely not do it. Pepys gives me the transcript, chapters, and hook ideas, which means the clips actually happen instead of living forever on my to-do list.
Daniel K.YouTube creator · Long video to shortsI had hours of interviews and that horrible feeling that the story was somewhere in there, but I could not see it yet. Reading the transcripts made the shape of the film visible. I could search, highlight, pull quotes, and start building the cut before opening the timeline.
Giulia F.Documentary filmmaker · The edit got unstuck
Podcast transcription – questions, answered
How do I transcribe a podcast episode?
Paste the episode's link (YouTube, Spotify, or a direct audio URL) or upload the file. Pepys returns a speaker-labeled transcript in minutes, along with AI-drafted show notes, key topics, and pull-quotes.
Can it tell the host and guests apart?
Yes. Speaker diarization separates each voice, so a two- or three-person episode comes back labeled rather than as one block of text. You can rename “Speaker 1” to the guest's name and it updates everywhere.
Does it generate show notes and chapters automatically?
Yes. The podcast analysis drafts a summary, key topics, pull-quotes, and show notes from the transcript, and timestamps let you export chapters for Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
What can I export for an episode?
Plain text, a DOCX of the show notes, SRT and VTT captions, and timestamped chapters. One click each.
How accurate is it with crosstalk and accents?
It auto-detects the spoken language across 99+ languages and handles overlapping speech and a range of accents. Anything it gets wrong you can fix inline in the editor.
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