Transcribe a Facebook Live mass and give the homily a life after the stream.
To transcribe a mass or service streamed on Facebook Live, the page admin downloads the video and uploads it here: a 1-hour mass is ready in about 2 minutes and a 3-hour Holy Week service in about 6. The first 20 minutes are free, and the $6 pack of 500 minutes covers about eight 60-minute masses.
For parish media ministries
The stream reaches people on Sunday. The text reaches the bulletin, the prayer group and the parishioner who missed it.
The homily as one chapter
Chapters split the service into the readings, the homily, the prayers and the announcements, each with its start time, so the homily can be copied out whole.
Announcements you can paste
Dates, times, venues and contribution amounts said from the ambo are listed in the brief, which saves the media team from replaying the end of every mass.
Subtitles for the parish replay
Download SRT or VTT and add them to the replay, so older parishioners and anyone watching on mute can read along.
From the page to this site
WhipScribe has no connection to Facebook and nothing joins your stream. Download the video from the page, then drop it on the upload page.
Why the replay is not enough
A stream sits on the page for a week, then disappears under the next one.
✗ Leaving it on Facebook
The replay holds the whole service, but nobody can search a video for the line the priest said about forgiveness.
- No text of the homily for the bulletin
- Announcements heard once, then lost
- Auto captions that stumble on Tagalog
- Hymns and responses hiding the spoken parts
- A long Holy Week service nobody rewatches
- Typing up the homily by hand every week
✓ The same mass here
The downloaded video becomes text with the service's own structure drawn out of it.
- The homily as one chapter of text
- Readings and prayers with their times
- Announcements listed in the brief
- Tagalog and English homily parts together
- SRT captions for the parish page
- About eight 1-hour masses per $6 pack
Sample output
A homily that switches between Tagalog and English.
Composed for this page as an illustration; it is not from a real parish, priest or service.
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
Facebook Live masses and services, answered.
How do we get the video off Facebook?
A page admin can usually download a past live video from the video's menu or from the page's video library; check what your page's tools offer. It normally arrives as an MP4. If the same mass was also streamed on YouTube, skip the download and paste the YouTube link instead.
How long is the wait, and what do a season's masses cost?
About 2 minutes of processing per hour of service, so a 3-hour Seven Last Words is ready in roughly 6 minutes. Nine dawn masses of 60 minutes each come to 540 minutes, just past the $6 pack of 500 minutes, so the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes is the one to buy and it leaves room for the Holy Week services too. A media team that records every week can also use the $19 a month Workspace.
Our Holy Week video will not upload. Why?
Usually size. A video at 4 Mbps grows 1.8 GB per hour (4 × 3,600 = 14,400 megabits), so a 3-hour service passes the 5 GB limit. Before the first pack the ceiling is 2 GB. If the upload refuses the file, convert it to MP3 first, which brings a 3-hour service under 200 MB. Length is rarely the problem: a file can run up to 10 hours, and a longer vigil goes in as two files.
Does it transcribe the songs and the Mass responses?
Hymns, chanted parts and the choir are music, so they are not transcribed; the readings, homily, prayers spoken aloud and announcements are. Tagalog and Filipino are detected automatically and English parts come back cleanly. A mass said in Cebuano, Waray or Bikol is supported but returns a fast first draft, so plan one review pass on it.
Who is named in the transcript?
Speakers are named in the summary, key quotes and chapters, for example the presider and a lay minister giving the announcements, when their names are said in the recording.
Which exports do we get, and is the recording kept private?
The parish gets TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON files. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training, and the parish can delete a service and its text at any time.
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