How do you turn a sermon into a blog post? Transcribe it, then edit from the outline it gives you.
Transcribe the sermon first: one file can run up to 10 hours or 5 GB (2 GB before your first pack), and a 45-minute message is ready in about 90 seconds, at roughly 2 minutes per audio hour, with a thesis, takeaways, chapters and key quotes that become the post's outline. The first 20 minutes are free, and the $6 pack of 500 minutes covers eleven 45-minute sermons.
Pulpit to page
What the transcript hands the writer, and what the writer still adds.
Bring in Sunday's recording
Paste the YouTube replay of the livestream, or upload the MP3 from the sound desk. For a whole service on video, the music is skipped and only speech is transcribed. The box on this page accepts files up to 500 MB; a larger one continues on the upload page with the same 10-hour, 5 GB ceiling.
Use the brief as the skeleton
The brief states the thesis in a sentence and lists the takeaways. That is the post's opening paragraph and its three or four main points. Chapters, each with a start time, mark where the preacher moved from one point to the next, which is where your subheadings go.
Lift the lines people remember
Key quotes collect the sentences that carried the message. Use one as a pull quote and another as the post's closing line. The names, numbers and dates said are gathered too, so a scripture reference or a date mentioned in passing is easy to find and check.
Edit speech into reading
Spoken sermons repeat, circle back and pause for effect; a blog post should not. Cut the repetition, turn asides into a sentence or remove them, and check every scripture quotation against the text before publishing. The chat helps: ask it where the illustration about the harvest began.
Writing it from memory
The post that never gets written.
✗ Starting from a blank page
Monday comes, and the sermon only exists as a video nobody has time to rewatch.
- Rewatching the whole service for one point
- Paraphrasing a line that was better spoken
- Losing the illustration that landed
- Typing a 45-minute message by hand
- Free tools that stop at 30 minutes
- A blog that falls months behind
✓ Starting from the transcript
The words, the outline and the best lines are already on the page.
- About 90 seconds for a 45-minute sermon
- Thesis and takeaways as the outline
- Chapters as subheadings
- Key quotes ready for pull quotes
- DOCX to edit in the church office
- A post a week without a rewatch
Sample
A Sunday message, as the transcript reads.
These lines are illustrative and written for this page, not taken from a real sermon or congregation.
Export
One transcript. Five clean formats.
Every pack exports all five — no format is held back for a higher tier.
Plain text
De-ummed paragraphs. Ready to paste.
SRT captions
Timed to the speech. Every video editor reads this.
WebVTT
HTML5 player + YouTube uploads.
Show notes
Formatted with chapters and pull-quotes.
Machine-readable
Timestamped text for your own tools.
Pricing
Honest pricing, no surprises.
A pack from $6 (500 minutes) opens the full transcript. After that, no subscription and no auto-renew — every tier is a one-time minute pack, and credits never expire. Buy once, use the minutes whenever you need them.
Casual pack
$6/500 min
8 hours of audio — $0.72 an hour. One-time — credits never expire.
- 500 minutes of audio
- All export formats
- AI chat over the whole transcript
- Executive summary & key quote
Best value
$12/2,000 min
33 hours of audio — $0.36 an hour. Credits never expire.
- 2,000 minutes of audio
- Summary, chapters and key quotes
- All export formats
- AI chat over the whole transcript
Bulk pack
$24/5,000 min
83 hours of audio — $0.29 an hour. Credits never expire.
- 5,000 minutes of audio
- Summary, chapters and key quotes
- API access for batch pipelines
- All export formats
FAQ
Sermons into posts, answered.
Should the blog post be the full transcript?
Usually not. A transcript of 45 minutes is roughly 6,000 spoken words, while a readable post is often 800 to 1,500. Publish the full transcript as a separate page if your congregation wants it, and write the post from the brief and chapters.
What does a year of sermons cost?
Fifty-two sermons of 45 minutes are 2,340 minutes. The $24 pack of 5,000 minutes covers the year with 2,660 left for midweek studies or guest speakers. A single season of thirteen weeks is 585 minutes, which goes on the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes.
Is the worship music transcribed too?
No. Music, sound effects and crowd noise are not transcribed; the speech is. A full 2-hour service still comes back with the sermon, the readings and the announcements.
Our sermons are in Spanish or Tagalog. Does it work?
Yes. 99 languages are detected automatically, and a message that switches between two languages is detected on its main one. Scripture names and English phrases inside the speech are handled.
We only have old sermons on cassette. Can those be used?
Yes, once they are digital. Digitise the tape with a cassette player and a USB audio interface or recorder, save the result as MP3 or WAV, then upload it. Each tape side becomes one file.
What happens to our recordings?
Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training. You can delete a sermon and its transcript at any time.
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