Transcribe Mandarin church services in Singapore.
A Mandarin church service in Singapore, usually 90 to 120 minutes with the sermon at its centre, is transcribed in about 3 to 4 minutes. Mandarin is detected from the audio, hymns are not transcribed, the first 20 minutes are free, and a two-hour service uses 120 of the 500 minutes on a $6 pack.
For the Mandarin congregation
Sunday's sermon in text by Sunday afternoon, for the cell groups that meet during the week.
Ready after lunch
At about 2 minutes per hour of audio, a two-hour service is text in roughly 4 minutes. The media team can post the sermon text the same day, and members who were serving in the nursery or on the media desk can read what they missed.
Mandarin, with English where it is used
Mandarin is detected from the audio. A sermon preached in English with Mandarin interpretation, or in Mandarin with English phrases, is transcribed on its main language with the switches handled.
The sermon, without the songs
Hymns and worship songs are not transcribed; the welcome, readings, prayers, sermon and announcements are. A service that opens with twenty minutes of singing simply begins its text at the welcome. Chapters with timestamps mark each part, and a full service video goes through upload page.
Questions for cell groups
The brief lists the sermon's main points, the Bible passages cited and the questions it answers. Cell group leaders can ask the chat for the sermon's three points and get them with times, then build the week's discussion questions from the passages the pastor actually read.
Why Mandarin sermons stay locked in video
The service is streamed and archived, but nobody can search what was preached.
✗ A video archive
Recordings are kept, but finding a sermon point means watching the whole service. Members who missed a Sunday have nothing to read.
- Two hours to find one illustration
- Auto-captions that struggle with Mandarin
- Hymns turned into nonsense text
- Upload limits below a service's length
- A monthly plan for weekly work
- Sermon notes typed out by volunteers
✓ Every service as text
Each Sunday becomes a searchable document with chapters. Cell group leaders, translators and members who prefer reading all work from the same text.
- Two hours of service in about 4 minutes
- Mandarin detected automatically
- Hymns left out of the text
- Chapters for readings and sermon
- Sermon points listed in the brief
- Sixteen services on one $12 pack
Sample
A Mandarin service, as the text comes back.
These lines are illustrative and written for this page; no real church or pastor is quoted. In English: a welcome, the day's reading, a sermon point about patience, and an announcement.
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
Mandarin service recordings, answered.
How quickly is a two-hour service ready?
In about 4 minutes, and a 90-minute service in about 3. The text is saved in your Library while you get on with Sunday.
What does half a year of services cost?
Sixteen two-hour services are 1,920 minutes, inside the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes. Half a year of weekly two-hour services is 3,120 minutes, which the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes covers with 1,880 left. A church media team that records several services every week can consider the $19/month Workspace.
The service video is big. What are the limits?
A service file may be up to 10 hours or 5 GB; before the first pack, uploads stop at 2 GB. If the service is on YouTube, including a live replay, paste the link and skip the upload.
Should the sermon be cut out of the service first?
No. Upload the whole service; hymns are left out of the text and chapters mark where the sermon begins and ends.
What about English interpretation, or a bilingual service?
Mandarin is detected automatically. A service that switches between Mandarin and English is transcribed on its main language, and the switches are handled. Check the names of people and places before posting.
What comes back, and does the recording stay private?
TXT and DOCX for sermon notes, SRT and VTT for captions on the service video, JSON for the church website. Sunday recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training.
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