Turn recorded sermons and services into text your congregation can read — searchable archives, accessibility captions, devotionals for your website, and 100+ languages. Private Whisper, and affordable for any ministry.
Built for churches & ministries
Every Sunday becomes searchable text. A member (or your staff) can find the message on a topic, a passage, or a phrase and jump to the exact moment in the recording — years of teaching, one search box.
Captions and a posted transcript welcome deaf and hard-of-hearing members and anyone watching with the sound low. Download the SRT/VTT for your video, or post the transcript beside the recording.
Preach in one language and reach members who speak another. Transcribe in the source language, or export an English translation track. Timing is preserved for captions either way.
A transcript is the raw material for a weekly devotional, a blog post, or study notes — turn one sermon into content that brings people to your website and keeps the message going all week.
Accurate on ordinary speech; a quick pass in the editor fixes an uncommon name, a place, or a verse citation. Far faster than a volunteer typing the whole message from the recording.
Private Whisper — no third-party service, no training on your recordings. Pay-as-you-go at about 0.6¢/min (Pro pack); a 45-minute sermon runs roughly $1.50. Delete anytime.
Side-by-side
Volunteers typing sermons is slow and hard to sustain. Here's the difference.
| Consideration | Whipscribe | Typing by hand |
|---|---|---|
| Time for a 45-min sermon | Under a minute to a full draft | 3–5 hours of volunteer time per message |
| Caption files | SRT · VTT · JSON, ready for your video | Extra manual work to time each line |
| Searchable archive | Every sermon indexed and searchable | Only what someone found time to type |
| Languages | 100+ languages; export a translation track | Needs a bilingual volunteer |
| Cost | ~$1.50 per 45-min sermon, PAYG | Hours of volunteer or staff time |
| Privacy | Private Whisper; no training on uploads; delete anytime | Depends on whatever tool the volunteer uses |
Publish the sermon as a podcast too? See Whipscribe for podcasting. Need caption files specifically? See captioning.
Questions ministries ask first
Yes. Upload the recording or paste a video URL — you get a timestamped, searchable transcript plus SRT/VTT captions. A 45-minute sermon transcribes in under a minute.
Accurate on ordinary speech; uncommon names and verse references sometimes need a quick fix in the editor, then re-export. Much faster than typing from scratch.
Yes. Download SRT/VTT captions for your video, or post the transcript beside the recording so anyone can read along.
100+ languages. Transcribe in the preached language or export an English translation track. Timing is preserved.
Yes. Private Whisper, no third-party service, no training on uploads. Delete audio and transcripts anytime.
PAYG at about 0.6¢/min (Pro pack) — a 45-minute sermon runs roughly $1.50. Start free; pay only for minutes transcribed.
Go deeper
Start free. About 0.6¢/min (Pro pack) pay-as-you-go after your free minutes — a full 45-minute sermon runs ~$1.50.
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