Transcription for pastors sermons and teaching series, as text.
A 45-minute sermon comes back as text in under 2 minutes, with chapters for each point and the scripture references gathered in a brief. A month of four Sunday sermons and four hour-long midweek studies is 420 minutes, inside the $6 pack of 500 minutes, and the first 20 minutes are free.
What a pastor's week produces
You preach every week. The words should not vanish on Monday.
Where the recording lives
A sermon streamed and archived on YouTube or Vimeo can be pasted as a link, as can a podcast feed of past sermons. The sound desk's recording uploads as a file; the box here takes up to 500 MB and a long service video continues on the main upload page, up to 10 hours or 5 GB.
From sermon to study guide
The brief gives the main thesis and takeaways, chapters mark each point of the message, and the scripture references said aloud are gathered in one place. That is the skeleton of a small-group guide, a blog post or the notes page in next week's bulletin.
The caution: check the verse text
When you quote from memory or paraphrase from the pulpit, the transcript records what you said, not the printed translation. Before a quote goes into a handout or a book chapter, check the reference and the wording against the translation you preach from. Worship music is not transcribed; the spoken parts are.
A series, a year, an archive
Fifty-two Sunday sermons of 45 minutes are 2,340 minutes, and fifty-two midweek studies of 50 minutes add 2,600, for 4,940 minutes. That fits the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes. Credits never expire, so a year's pack can sit on the account.
Where sermon archives stall
Years of preaching, and none of it searchable.
✗ The usual archive
Hundreds of files that only the pastor remembers the contents of.
- Sermons that exist only as video
- Volunteers typing notes on Monday
- Auto-captions with names of books garbled
- No way to find 'the sermon on Ruth'
- Free tiers that end before the altar call
- A subscription for a weekly file
✓ A searchable teaching archive
Every message as text, with the structure already marked.
- Under 2 minutes for a 45-minute sermon
- Chapters for each point
- Scripture references in the brief
- A chat across the series
- $6 for 500 minutes covers a month
- Captions for the posted video
Sample
Part of a sermon, as text.
Illustrative only: written for this page and not from any church's recording.
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
Pastors' questions, answered.
How long does a sermon take to transcribe?
About 2 minutes per hour of audio. A 45-minute sermon is ready in under 2 minutes, and a full 2-hour service in about 4.
What does a year of sermons cost?
Fifty-two 45-minute sermons are 2,340 minutes, which fits the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes; add a weekly 50-minute study and the year totals 4,940 minutes, still inside it. A single month of 420 minutes fits the $6 pack of 500 minutes. Credits never expire.
Will the worship songs be in the transcript?
No. Singing and instrumental music are not transcribed. The text moves from one spoken part to the next, and the timestamps show where the songs sat.
Can I turn a teaching series into a book?
Yes, as raw material. Export each message to DOCX, use the chapters as section breaks and the brief as an outline, then edit spoken style into written prose.
Our church preaches in Spanish or Korean. Does that work?
99 languages are detected automatically. A sermon with an interpreter on stage switches language every sentence and is detected on its main language, so a recording of the interpreter's channel alone gives the cleanest text in that language.
Is the recording kept private?
Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training. A sermon can be deleted from the account whenever you choose.
Related
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