Transcribe a Cantonese church service for a Canadian congregation.
A Cantonese service at a Canadian church typically runs 90 minutes to 2 hours, and a 100-minute recording is turned into Chinese text in about 3 to 4 minutes, with Cantonese detected automatically and the first 20 minutes free. Five 100-minute services use exactly the 500 minutes of the $6 pack.
For Cantonese congregations
A Cantonese sermon you can read, quote and share, not only replay.
Cantonese, recognised as Cantonese
The language is detected from the audio, so a Cantonese sermon is not forced through a Mandarin setting. When an elder switches to English for a notice, or a guest preacher speaks English with a Cantonese interpreter, those switches are handled inside one file.
How the file gets here
Paste a YouTube replay link, or a Google Drive share link if the media team keeps the files there. A recording downloaded from Facebook goes in through the upload page, up to 2 GB before the first pack and 5 GB after.
Spoken and written Cantonese
Spoken Cantonese and standard written Chinese do not match word for word, and congregations have their own preference for how particles and colloquial words are written. Read the free first 20 minutes and see whether the text suits your bulletin before you buy a pack.
Five services on one pack
A 100-minute service takes 100 minutes of credit. The $6 pack of 500 minutes covers five of them, roughly a month of Sundays plus a special service, and the credits stay on the account until they are used. A church that also records Friday fellowship and Bible study can buy the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes and keep a running archive.
What happens to most Cantonese service recordings
The sermon was recorded, and the only way back into it is to listen again.
✗ Video on a shelf
Services are streamed, saved and forgotten. Older members who missed a Sunday, or a newcomer who prefers to read, have no way in except a 2-hour video. Newer arrivals who speak Mandarin, and second-generation members who read English best, are left out of a sermon they could not follow live.
- No text version of the sermon
- Tools that assume Mandarin for Chinese
- English notices garbled or skipped
- Hymn lyrics clogging the transcript
- Hours of rewinding to find one point
- Caption limits well below a service
✓ Every Sunday in writing
The service returns with chapters and a brief, and the sermon can be read on its own. A deacon preparing a study can search last month's preaching for the passage instead of replaying it. The text can also be the starting point for a translated summary, prepared by a volunteer who reads both languages.
- About 3 to 4 minutes per service
- Cantonese detected from the audio
- Notices and prayers as chapters
- Minister named in the summary
- Bible passages and dates in a list
- Hymns and organ music skipped
Sample
A Cantonese service, as it comes back.
This sample is illustrative and was written for this page; it is not from any congregation's recording. Role names stand in for the names a summary would carry.
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
- Unlimited AI chat per 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
- Priority queue
- All export formats
- Unlimited AI chat per transcript
Bulk pack
$24/5,000 min
83 hours of audio — $0.29 an hour. Credits never expire.
- 5,000 minutes of audio
- Priority queue
- API access for batch pipelines
- All export formats
FAQ
Cantonese services in Canada, the common questions.
How long does a 100-minute Cantonese service take?
Three to four minutes, because each hour of audio takes about 2. A 2-hour service with a members' meeting afterwards is usually done in about 5.
What would a full year of Cantonese Sundays cost?
Fifty-two 100-minute services total 5,200 minutes. The $24 pack of 5,000 minutes covers fifty of them, and the $6 pack adds the last two with 300 minutes left. Prices are shown in US dollars; your card converts them at checkout. Credits stay on the account between seasons, so minutes bought at Easter can still be used at Christmas.
Is Cantonese supported, or only Mandarin?
Cantonese is detected on its own, and so are Mandarin, English and the other languages among the 99 supported. A service that mixes Cantonese and English is detected on its main language, with the English parts kept.
How big can a service file be?
One file of up to 10 hours or 5 GB. Before the first pack, uploads go up to 2 GB, which a 100-minute recording almost always fits; a YouTube link needs no upload. Should the upload refuse a file, converting it to MP3 first usually solves it.
Our anniversary service ran almost four hours. Is that a problem?
No. Anything up to 10 hours goes in as a single file, and a 4-hour service takes about 8 minutes and 240 minutes of credit.
What can the church download, and who sees the service?
DOCX and TXT for the bulletin, SRT and VTT to caption the replay, JSON for a website. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training, and only the account that uploaded a service can open it.
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