Built for the church teams nobody's building for

Sermon Transcription exists because church communications teams kept getting handed enterprise tools at enterprise prices, or duct-tape free tools that hallucinated half the message. We wanted something that worked on a 35-minute expository sermon, named the right pastor, recognized ‘Habakkuk’, and cost less than a Sunday-morning donut.

What we believe

• The sermon shouldn't die at the doors. Every preached message should be searchable, shareable, captioned, and translatable — by Tuesday morning at the latest.
• Accessibility isn't an upsell. Captions are baseline, not premium.
• Honest pricing beats slick marketing. We charge what the API providers charge plus a thin margin. No tier games, no 'contact sales'.
• Church tech should respect church time. If a volunteer can't finish the workflow before the coffee gets cold, we built it wrong.

How our pricing actually works

OpenAI charges $0.006 per minute for Whisper. ElevenLabs charges roughly $0.018 per minute for Audio Intelligence. Our Standard tier is $0.006/min and our Premium tier is $0.02/min — meaning we add roughly $0.002/min on top of API cost, just enough to keep the lights on and the servers running. There are no hidden fees, no minimum spends, no signup discounts that quietly disappear at month two.

We don't require a credit card to start. The first 10 minutes per signup are free. If we can't convince you in 10 minutes, we don't deserve your $0.27.

The team

Sermon Transcription was built and is maintained by a small team of software engineers who have spent years working with churches, pastors, and ministry organizations on production-grade audio pipelines. We've worked behind the scenes on podcast transcription stacks, broadcast captioning workflows, and multilingual church livestreams.

We test every release on real sermon audio — expository, narrative, charismatic, liturgical — before shipping. We don't move fast and break ministries.

Privacy & data handling

• Audio uploaded is processed once and deleted within 24 hours of completion.
• Transcripts are retained on your account until you delete them.
• We don't use your sermon audio to train AI models.
• We never sell or share your transcripts with third parties.
• OpenAI and ElevenLabs (our underlying providers) operate under their own no-training-by-default API terms.

Talk to us

We read every email. We answer faster than most enterprise SaaS companies. We're especially interested in:

• Feature requests from working church communications teams
• Use cases we haven't thought of (academic, archival, foreign language)
• Bugs or accuracy issues on your specific sermon audio
• Partnership ideas with seminaries, denominations, and church tech vendors