Transcribe an English church service recorded in Japan and send the message to members who moved away.
An English-language church service recorded in Japan, typically 90 to 120 minutes, is transcribed at about 2 minutes per hour of audio, so a 100-minute service is text in roughly 3 to 4 minutes. The opening minutes are a free preview, and four 100-minute services, 400 minutes, fit the $18 pack of 3,000 minutes.
For media volunteers at international churches
Your congregation turns over every few years. A written sermon follows people home when their posting in Japan ends.
A sermon brief for the newsletter
The brief opens with the message's central point and the takeaways, which is most of a weekly email or a small-group handout already drafted. Volunteers edit instead of starting from a blank page.
Chapters a visitor can scan
Chapters mark the welcome, the readings, the sermon, the prayers and the notices, each with a timestamp, so a member who missed a week jumps straight to the message.
Captions for members who listen in a second language
Many members of an English service in Japan speak it as a second or third language. SRT and VTT captions on the replay let them read along at their own pace.
A camera file of several gigabytes
The upload box on this page takes files up to 500 MB. A full-resolution service video continues on the upload page, up to 5 GB, and a YouTube replay needs no upload at all.
Why the message stops at the door
A small media team, a two-hour service, and a replay nobody finds again.
✗ A typical Sunday afternoon
One or two volunteers handle the camera, the stream and the slides. Once the service ends, the recording sits on a drive and the sermon lives only in the pastor's notes.
- Replays watched once, then buried
- No written text for the church website
- Long services cut short to fit short upload limits
- Captions skipped because nobody has the hours
- Bible references hard to find inside the video
- New members unable to catch up on a series
✓ After one upload
The service comes back as English text with chapters and a brief before the team has packed the cables away.
- Full sermon text, ready to post
- Chapters from opening song to final blessing
- Scripture, dates and names listed with timestamps
- Preacher and guest speakers named in the summary
- SRT and VTT for the replay
- A chat that answers what the sermon said about any passage
Sample output
An English sermon from a Sunday in Japan, at the lines a volunteer would quote.
Invented lines for illustration only; they come from no real congregation, church or pastor in Japan.
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 $4 (300 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
$4/300 min
5 hours of audio — $0.80 an hour. One-time — credits never expire.
- 300 minutes of audio
- All export formats
- AI chat over the whole transcript
- Executive summary & key quote
Best value
$18/3,000 min
50 hours of audio — $0.36 an hour. Credits never expire.
- 3,000 minutes of audio
- Summary, chapters and key quotes
- All export formats
- AI chat over the whole transcript
Bulk pack
$32/6,000 min
100 hours of audio — $0.32 an hour. Credits never expire.
- 6,000 minutes of audio
- Summary, chapters and key quotes
- API access for batch pipelines
- All export formats
FAQ
English services in Japan, answered.
How long does a 100-minute English service take to transcribe?
About 3 to 4 minutes, at the usual pace of roughly 2 minutes of processing for each hour of audio. A two-hour service takes about 4. The text is usually ready before the coffee after the service is finished.
What does a month, a quarter and a year of services cost?
Four 100-minute services use 400 minutes, which fits the $18 pack of 3,000 minutes. Thirteen Sundays, a quarter, use 1,300 minutes and fit the $18 pack of 3,000. Forty-eight services in a year, 4,800 minutes, fit the $32 pack of 6,000. Packs are one-time purchases, credits never expire, and there is no subscription. Prices are in US dollars.
Some of the service is in Japanese. Does that matter?
The recording is detected on its main language, which is English for these services, and you never pick one from a menu; 99 languages are detected automatically. A Japanese greeting, a name or a short notice inside an English service stays part of the same transcript. If a service is mostly Japanese with English portions, the recording is detected as Japanese instead.
Our stream video is several gigabytes. Will it upload?
A single file can run up to 10 hours or 5 GB. Uploads go up to 5 GB per file, so even a long high-resolution file usually goes up as it is. A video at 5 Mbps uses about 2.25 GB per hour (5,000,000 bits per second times 3,600 seconds, divided by 8), so a 100-minute service is near 3.75 GB. Pasting the YouTube replay link avoids the upload entirely.
Are the worship songs transcribed?
No. Music, sound effects and crowd noise are not transcribed; the speech is. Readings, prayers, the sermon and the notices come through as text, and the worship sets leave a gap.
Who sees the recording, and what do we download?
Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training, so prayer requests spoken from the front stay with the church. You download TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT or JSON.
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