Transcribe recordings made in a cathedral the sermon, the lecture, the spoken word.
A recording made in a cathedral, such as an 80-minute Sunday service or a 75-minute lecture, is transcribed at about 2 minutes per audio hour, so it is text in under 3 minutes. Packs start at $4 for 300 minutes, and credits never expire.
Stone, echo and a sound desk
A cathedral is built to carry sound for seconds. That is lovely for a choir and hard for a microphone at the back.
Record from the desk, not the nave
The reverberation that makes the building beautiful blurs speech on a phone in the pews. If the cathedral has a PA system, take the feed from its desk into a recorder or laptop: the voices from the pulpit and lectern arrive close and clean. A streamed service on YouTube can be pasted as a link, live replays included.
Choir and organ are left out
Anthems, hymns, psalms that are sung and the organ voluntary are music, and music is not transcribed. The sermon, the readings, the prayers that are spoken, the notices and a lecture's question time come back. A concert returns only its spoken introductions.
Lecture series and talks
Packs start at $4 for 300 minutes, and credits never expire. Each lecture returns chapters with timestamps and the questions it answers.
A year of services, costed
Packs start at $4 for 300 minutes, and credits never expire. Files up to 500 MB go in the box above; longer recordings continue on the upload page, up to 10 hours or 5 GB each.
Why the spoken word gets lost
The service was streamed and archived. The sermon the dean wants for the magazine is still at minute 37 of a video.
✗ Recordings only
Hours of services and lectures in a stream archive.
- Sermons retyped for the website
- Lectures available only as video
- Visitors who cannot hear in a long echo
- No text for people who read rather than listen
- Talks nobody can search by subject
- Notices repeated because they were missed
✓ Recordings with text
Every service and lecture kept in writing.
- 80 minutes back in under 3
- Chapters for readings, sermon and notices
- Speakers named in the summary
- SRT and VTT captions for the stream
- A brief of each lecture
- DOCX for the magazine and website
Sample
A Sunday service recorded from the PA desk.
Illustrative lines written for this page; no real cathedral, clergy or congregation is represented.
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
Cathedral recordings: common questions.
How long does a service take to transcribe?
About 2 minutes per audio hour, so an 80-minute service comes back in under 3 minutes and a three-hour festival service in about 6.
What will a year of services cost?
Fifty-two services of 80 minutes, 4,160 minutes, fit the $32 pack of 6,000 minutes. Packs start at $4 for 300 minutes, and credits never expire.
Will the choir and hymns appear?
No. Singing and organ music are not transcribed. The spoken parts of the service come back, so a choral evensong will produce far less text than a sermon.
The echo is strong on our phone recordings. Will they work?
Speech that you can follow when listening usually comes through, but a phone far from the pulpit loses words in the echo. The sound desk feed, or a phone placed near a loudspeaker, gives better results.
Can we paste the link to our streamed service?
Yes. YouTube links work, live replays included, as do Vimeo links. Stream replays over 6 hours start once a pack is on the account.
Where is the recording processed?
Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training. You can delete the file and transcript once the text is saved.
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