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Segment summaries, topics, and pull-quotes, drafted for you
Every showis analyzed automatically the moment it’s transcribed. Here’s a real sample, run through it.
Flash-Flood Watch on the Morning Drive: A Live Weather and Traffic Segment
A community-radio morning-drive segment turns a flash-flood watch into actionable guidance. County meteorologist Dale Okonkwo reports two inches of overnight rain on already-saturated ground, with river gauges climbing fast, and tells listeners the heavy band should push east by about eleven before easing to scattered showers. His core message is blunt: turn around, don't drown, and treat even familiar roads as untrustworthy because low spots like Cedar Crossing and the Fifth Street underpass flood first and fastest. The host then hands to traffic reporter Priya Vance, who confirms standing water on the southbound 9 and a closed Fifth Street underpass.
Guests
Key topics
Pull-quotes
- “Turn around, don't drown.”
- “Especially the road you drive every day, because you assume you know how deep it gets.”
- “The danger window is really the next three or four hours, so the morning is when we want everybody being careful.”
- “A weather alert nobody hears is just noise.”
- “Give yourself an extra fifteen minutes and stick to the higher routes if you can.”
Show notes
- The setup: a flash-flood watch posted for the whole valley, opening the seven-eighteen segment on the Morning Drive
- The conditions: two inches of rain overnight on saturated ground east of town, with river gauges climbing faster than the meteorologist would like this early
- The core safety message - 'turn around, don't drown' - and why about a foot of moving water can float a car you can't judge by sight
- The trap of familiar roads: low spots at Cedar Crossing and the Fifth Street underpass flood first and fast, sometimes in under ten minutes
- The timeline: the heavy band pushes east by about eleven, leaving scattered showers and a wet-but-driveable evening commute
- The traffic hand-off: standing water on the southbound 9 near Cedar Crossing and the Fifth Street underpass closed both directions, with advice to add fifteen minutes and take higher routes
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What did the meteorologist say drivers should do this morning?
His one message was "turn around, don't drown." He warns it takes about a foot of moving water to float most cars, and you can't tell six inches from two feet when it's brown and rushing over a road, so if a road's covered, find another way around. He stresses this even for a road you drive every day, because the low spots at Cedar Crossing and the Fifth Street underpass flood first and fast.
When is the rain expected to clear, and which roads are already closed?
He says the heavy band should push east by about eleven, leaving scattered showers and a wet-but-driveable evening commute, with the danger window the next three or four hours. In the traffic hand-off, Priya reports standing water on the southbound 9 near the Cedar Crossing exit and the Fifth Street underpass barricaded and closed both directions.
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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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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.
Web recaps and show pages
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Soundbites for the news desk
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Logging and compliance archive
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Why radio stations pick Pepys
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The segment summary and pull-quotes are built in, not a separate paste into another tool.
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What radio stations 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 had one of those awful deadline moments where I knew the source had said the line, but I could not remember where. Searching the transcript got me there in seconds, with the timestamp right next to it. That changed the whole afternoon from panic-scrubbing audio to writing the story.
Tomás H.Investigative journalist · Found the quote I 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 shorts
Radio transcription – questions, answered
How do I transcribe a radio broadcast?
Upload the recording (a WAV, MP3, or M4A air-check) or paste a link to it. Pepys returns a speaker-labeled transcript in minutes, along with an AI-drafted segment summary, key topics, and pull-quotes you can post or archive.
Can it separate the host, a call-in guest, and the traffic reporter?
Yes. Speaker diarization separates each voice, so a segment with a host, a phone guest, and a hand-off to the traffic center comes back labeled rather than as one block. You can rename a speaker to the person's real name and it updates everywhere.
Does it draft a web recap and pull soundbites automatically?
Yes. The analysis drafts a segment summary, key topics, and pull-quotes straight from the transcript, so a recap for the station site and a soundbite for the news desk are ready the moment you're off air.
Can I use it for station logging and public-file requirements?
Many stations do. Each transcript is timestamped and fully searchable, which makes logging aired content and keeping a record far faster than listening back in real time. Keep your own copies; we never train on your audio.
What can I export for a segment?
Plain text, a DOCX of the segment summary, SRT and VTT captions for a simulcast or web player, and timestamps. One click each.
How accurate is it with call quality, crosstalk, and station idents?
It auto-detects the spoken language across 99+ languages and handles phone-line call-ins, overlapping speech, and a range of accents. Anything it gets wrong - a misheard call letter or place name - you can fix inline in the editor.
Do we have to subscribe?
No. Pepys is pay-as-you-go - buy a block of hours, use them across whatever shows you record, and the credits never expire. You can start free with 60 minutes, no card.
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