Transcribe a Brazilian Portuguese service at a congregation in the US.
Brazilian congregations in the US often hold services of 2 to 3 hours, and a 3-hour recording becomes Portuguese text in about 6 minutes, with the language detected automatically and the first 20 minutes free. A 3-hour culto uses 180 minutes, so the $6 pack of 500 minutes covers two of them with 140 minutes left.
For pastors, media teams and ministry leaders
A long culto, with the word preached easy to find inside it.
Built for the long service
A Brazilian service can run from the first worship set through testimonies, the preaching and a long time of prayer. Up to 10 hours goes in as one file, so a vigil or a conference night is not cut in pieces. At about 2 minutes per hour of audio, a 3-hour service is ready before the after-service lunch is over.
Worship is skipped, words are kept
Louvor, choir numbers and instrumental moments are not transcribed. What comes back is the speech: the welcome, the testimonies, the reading, the preaching and the notices, each as a chapter with its start time.
Portuguese with English in between
Some congregations add an English summary for children of the community or for visitors. The recording is detected on its main language, Portuguese, and the English segments stay where they were spoken.
From YouTube or the phone
Paste the YouTube replay link after the transmissão ends, or upload the file through the upload page. A phone recording of a 3-hour service is usually a few hundred megabytes, under the 2 GB limit that applies before your first pack.
Where the long service gets stuck
Three hours on video, and the message is somewhere in the middle.
✗ Searching by memory
The preaching started somewhere after the second hour. Members who want to revisit it, and leaders who want to quote it in a study, end up scrubbing a long video for one verse. A long service filmed for a YouTube transmission is also a big file, and many tools give up well before the third hour.
- Preaching buried inside three hours
- Tools tuned for European Portuguese
- English segments lost in the text
- Worship lyrics mixed into notes
- One-hour caps on free tools
- Testimonies impossible to locate
✓ The culto as a document
The service becomes text with chapters, a short brief and the verses and dates spoken. A cell group leader can take the preaching chapter for the week's study without rewatching anything. Testimonies get their own chapters too, which helps a church that collects them for an anniversary book or a ministry report.
- A three-hour culto back in six minutes
- Brazilian Portuguese recognised
- Preaching as its own chapter
- The pastor named in the summary
- Bible references in a list
- DOCX for a cell group study
Sample
A Brazilian service, as it comes back.
This sample is illustrative, written for this page and not drawn from any church's recording; role names replace 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
Portuguese services in the US, the common questions.
How long does a 3-hour Portuguese service take to transcribe?
About 6 minutes. A 2-hour service is ready in about 4, and the length makes no difference to how it is sent: one file, start to finish.
What does a quarter of cultos cost?
Thirteen Sundays at 2.5 hours each come to 1,950 minutes, inside the $12 pack of 2,000 minutes. Prices are in US dollars, the credits never expire, and no subscription is needed.
Does it understand Brazilian Portuguese?
Portuguese is one of the 99 languages detected automatically, and the Brazilian accent is transcribed as spoken. A sermon that switches into English, or into Spanish for visitors, is detected on its main language with the switches handled. Names of people and places mentioned from the pulpit are listed for you to check, since spellings of family names vary.
Our culto video runs to several gigabytes. What do we do?
A culto file can be 2 GB before the first pack, then 5 GB or 10 hours. If the upload refuses the file, convert it to MP3 first, or paste the YouTube link so nothing needs uploading.
Can we split a long vigil into parts?
Only when the vigil runs past 10 hours. Anything shorter is better as one file, so the chapters and the brief cover the whole night.
What comes back from a culto, and is it private?
TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and JSON, plus the brief, chapters and a chat over the text. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training; deleting a culto removes it from the account. DOCX is the easiest export to adapt into a printed study guide for células or small groups.
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