Sermon Transcriptions
Turn every sermon into something readable, searchable, and shareable.
Your preaching, in text, without anyone typing it.
A recorded sermon reaches the people who have time to listen to it. A written one reaches everyone else. Transcription takes the audio you are already uploading and turns it into formatted text, automatically.
The transcript is generated from the recording and formatted into readable paragraphs rather than an undifferentiated wall of words. This is a per-sermon operation, so you decide what gets transcribed. A visiting speaker’s lesson, a series you want to publish as a study guide, or every sermon you preach. There is no all-or-nothing commitment.
What text does that audio cannot.
Text is searchable, and that changes the value of your archive completely. Five years of audio is a collection nobody can navigate. Five years of transcripts is a resource where someone can find the lesson on a passage they are studying, and where search engines can find you at all. Audio is invisible to search. Text is not.
It also makes your teaching accessible to people who cannot use the audio: members who are deaf or hard of hearing, members whose first language is not English and who read more comfortably than they listen, and anyone in a situation where playing audio is not practical.
Highlights
- Automatic transcription of uploaded sermon audio
- Formatted into readable paragraphs, not raw text
- Attached to the sermon it belongs to in your archive
- Choose which sermons to transcribe, one at a time
- Indexable by search engines, unlike audio
- Accessible to deaf and hard of hearing members
- Download and reuse in bulletins, study guides, and printed collections
Who This Feature Helps
Members
They can read a sermon they missed in ten minutes instead of listening for forty, and search the archive for the lesson they half remember.
Leaders
An archive that can actually be used, and a body of written material for study guides and bulletins that costs nobody a Saturday.
Visitors
If you choose to post it publicly, search engines can read text. A transcribed archive is how people looking for teaching on a subject find your congregation at all.