Notta is a polished AI transcription tool, popular with sales teams and meeting-heavy knowledge workers. For most churches it's priced for a use case you don't have — a monthly subscription with file-length caps, vocabulary trained on Zoom calls instead of expository preaching. Sermon-transcription.com is per-minute, no subscription, scripture-aware, and ready to use in two minutes.
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Sermon Transcription
Notta is a polished meeting tool. We're a focused sermon pipeline. Different fits, different prices.
| Feature | Notta | Sermon Transcription |
|---|---|---|
| Starting paid price | $8.25/mo (Pro annual) | $0.006/min Standard |
| Pricing model | Monthly/annual subscription | Per-minute, pay as you go |
| Monthly minimum | $8.25–$13.99 (Pro) | $0 |
| Cost of 45-min sermon | Counts against monthly cap | $0.27 |
| Annual cost (4 sermons/mo) | ~$99/yr (Pro annual) | ~$13/yr |
| Per-file length cap | 3 min Free / 90 min Pro | None |
| Monthly minute cap | 120 (Free) / 1,800 (Pro) | No cap |
| Credit expiration | Resets monthly, unused expires | Never expires |
| AI engine | Proprietary (meeting-tuned) | OpenAI Whisper + ElevenLabs Scribe |
| Accuracy on clean audio | ~98–99% | 99% Standard, 99.5% Premium |
| Speaker diarization | Yes (Pro+) | Premium tier |
| Real-time meeting capture | Yes (strong feature) | No (upload-only) |
| Mobile app | Yes (polished iOS + Android) | Mobile web |
| AI translation | Yes (58 languages) | No (transcript only) |
| Scripture auto-formatting | No | Yes |
| Sermon vocabulary defaults | No — meeting tuned | Yes |
| Custom glossary | Yes (paid) | Yes (included) |
| Output formats | TXT, SRT, DOCX, PDF | TXT, SRT, VTT, JSON |
Four reasons we hear from media volunteers and pastors who tried it.
Notta Free promises 120 minutes a month, but caps each individual upload at 3 minutes. A 45-minute sermon gets truncated. To test on real audio you have to upgrade first — exactly the opposite of how a volunteer media lead evaluates a new tool on a Sunday night. We give 10 free minutes you can spend on any file length, no card required.
Notta Pro at $8.25/month annual ($99/year) is meant for steady daily usage. If your team skips weeks (holidays, summer schedule, building-project Sundays), unused minutes just expire. Our credits never expire — buy $10 once, transcribe whenever, even if it's next year.
Notta's model is tuned on Zoom calls, sales meetings, and student lectures. It performs well on those domains. For sermons, scripture references stay spelled out, Bible book names occasionally get autocorrected, and theological terms need manual cleanup. We bias toward sermon-specific corrections out of the box.
Notta Pro caps each file at 90 minutes — fine for a Sunday morning sermon, tight for a Good Friday service, a conference session, a youth retreat recording, or a two-hour worship night. To transcribe longer events you upgrade to Business at significantly higher cost. We have no per-file cap.
Where Notta still wins, and where pay-per-minute is the right call.
Volunteer media lead uploads the recording Sunday night, posts a clean transcript to the church blog Monday for accessibility and SEO. No staff meetings, no podcast, no translation.
Notta Pro (annual)
$99/year. Roughly 180 minutes used out of 21,600 included — you're paying for a meeting tool you're not using.
Sermon Transcription
$0.27 per 45-minute sermon. Roughly $14/year for ~50 sermons. 7× cheaper.
Daily elder calls, donor video meetings, board sessions, plus one Sunday sermon a week. AI summaries of meetings are part of the workflow.
Notta
Honestly the right tool. Real-time meeting capture and AI meeting notes earn the subscription when meetings dominate the workflow.
Sermon Transcription
Cheaper for sermons, but no real-time meeting bot. You'd use us for sermons and something else for meetings.
Six campuses, weekly sermons plus occasional 2-3 hour conference sessions, Good Friday services, and youth retreats. Shared glossary of campus pastors.
Notta
90-minute file cap forces splitting long sessions, or upgrading to Business at $15–$19/user/month per active editor.
Sermon Transcription
No file cap. Pay per minute across all six campuses, shared glossary, 90+ languages. No per-seat tax.
Meeting-grade transcription tools beat per-minute pipelines in specific cases.
If your church staff lives in Zoom — daily elder calls, donor video meetings, leadership board sessions, capital campaign calls — Notta's real-time meeting bot and AI summaries genuinely earn the subscription. We don't replicate that meeting workflow; we're an upload-and-transcribe pipeline.
If your pastoral team needs mobile-first transcription on the go — recording counseling visits, hospital prayer notes, voice memos from a leadership retreat — the Notta mobile app is more polished than ours. We work fine on mobile web but don't ship a native app.
If your ministry publishes translated transcripts at scale, Notta's bundled AI translation across 58 languages simplifies the workflow. We give you a clean transcript in 90+ languages but assume you bring your own translation step.
Four 45-minute sermons per month, full year.
Including when Notta is the right call.
10 free minutes, no card, no email gate, no 3-minute file cap. Upload a real sermon, see real accuracy on your own audio, decide whether per-minute beats the monthly subscription for your team.
Start free transcriptionNo card. No subscription. No file-length cap.