Paste the link of the livestream replay on YouTube or Facebook, or drop the recording, and download an SRT or VTT caption file. Correct a name or a verse reference on its line first, and the file carries the correction.
How it works
Public YouTube and Facebook links are fetched for you. A file from the sound desk or the camera works too; the audio alone gives the same captions and uploads faster.
Read through the names of people and places and every Bible reference, and correct them on their lines. Sung worship is harder to transcribe than speech, so check those passages.
Download .srt for YouTube or Facebook, or .vtt for a player on your own website, and attach it to the video.
The sermon or the whole service
Cue times count from the start of the file you transcribe. That matters for church video, because one Sunday often ends up in two places: the full livestream replay and a sermon-only video cut from it.
Where the file goes
sunday-service.en_US.srt. The naming rule and the fixes are on subtitles for Facebook video.Captions serve members who are deaf or hard of hearing, people watching with the sound low or off, and people following the message in their second language. Searchable sermon text and devotionals from the same transcript are covered on the sermons use case.
Where the errors are
Before you rely on it
Each cue holds at most two lines of about 42 characters and stays on screen for one to seven seconds, breaking at the end of a sentence or clause where it can. The words are exactly the transcript's; only the breaks are chosen for the screen.
Cue times are taken from the recording itself, so the file lines up with the video or audio you uploaded. If you trim the start of the video afterwards, shift the cues by the same amount in your editor.
On public test recordings, about 7 words in 100 differed from the reference for clean English read speech, between 4 and 9 in 100 for Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, French and German, and about 21 in 100 for Hindi. Noisy rooms, music and crosstalk do worse. Method and every number: the benchmark.
Open the transcript, correct a misheard name or number on its line, and the SRT and VTT you download carry the correction with the timing unchanged.
You get the subtitle file. Fonts, colours, position and captions drawn into the picture are done in your video editor or player, which reads this file.
Up to 10 hours or 5 GB per recording. The box on this page takes files up to 500 MB; larger ones continue on the upload page. 99+ languages, detected automatically.
Pricing
The preview is free. When the full transcript needs a pack, one-time packs are $6 for 500 minutes, $8 for 1,000 minutes, $12 for 2,000 minutes, $24 for 5,000 minutes. Credits never expire, which comes to about $0.29 to $0.72 per hour of audio. Fifty-two 40-minute sermons are 2,080 minutes, which fits the $24 pack of 5,000 minutes.
| Recording | $6 or $8 pack | $12 pack | $24 pack |
|---|---|---|---|
| 40-minute sermon | $0.32 | $0.24 | $0.19 |
| 90-minute service replay | $0.72 | $0.54 | $0.43 |
| A year of weekly 40-minute sermons | $16.64 | $12.48 | $9.98 |
Figures are the share of a pack each recording uses. A button opens secure checkout for that pack. Every export format is included; full details on the pricing page.
FAQ
Paste the video's YouTube link here, correct the transcript, and download the SRT. In YouTube Studio open the video, choose Subtitles, add the language, then Upload file with timing and select the SRT.
Yes. Transcribe the sermon video you publish rather than the full livestream, because cue times count from the start of the file. A caption file made from the full service would run ahead of a clip cut from it.
Usually close, not always in your house style. Chapter and verse can come back written as words or punctuated differently, so read through them and correct each one on its line before downloading.
Yes, in the language preached: 99+ languages are detected automatically. The captions are in that language; they are not translated.
Up to 10 hours or 5 GB per file. A two-hour service is well inside that; files over 500 MB continue on the upload page.
Usage is per minute of audio. A 40-minute sermon uses 40 minutes, so the $6 pack of 500 minutes covers 12 sermons, and credits never expire.
Every page in this set uses the same upload box and the same export. All subtitle pages
Free preview. SRT and VTT from one upload; packs from $6, credits never expire.