Temi is Rev.com's consumer AI transcription brand — $0.25/min, English only, single-speaker focused. For a 45-minute sermon you'll pay $11.25 and get a serviceable but generic transcript. Sermon-transcription.com is a flat $19/month for unlimited sermons, 90+ languages, scripture-aware, with your first full sermon free.
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Metered billing vs a flat plan. Different price and a very different fit for sermon teams.
| Feature | Temi | Sermon Transcription |
|---|---|---|
| Per-minute price | $0.25/min | No per-minute charge — $19/mo flat |
| Pricing model | Prepaid per-minute | Flat monthly subscription |
| Cost of 45-min sermon | $11.25 | ~$4.40 effective at weekly volume |
| Annual cost (4 sermons/mo) | ~$540/yr | $228/yr flat ($192/yr on quarterly billing) |
| Free trial | 1 × 45-min file | First full sermon, up to 90 min |
| Credit expiration | Prepaid, generally rolls over | No credits — flat plan |
| AI engine | Rev proprietary (consumer tier) | Three engines with automatic failover |
| Accuracy on clean audio | ~95% | 99% |
| Languages supported | English only | 90+ |
| Speaker diarization | Basic speaker markers | Not offered |
| Scripture auto-formatting | No | Yes |
| Sermon-specific vocabulary | No — generic model | Yes |
| Custom glossary | No | Yes (included) |
| YouTube URL ingest | No | Yes |
| In-browser editor | Yes (consumer-focused) | Yes |
| Output formats | TXT, DOCX, PDF, MP3 sync | TXT, SRT, VTT, JSON |
| Turnaround | ~5 min typical | ~1–5 min |
| Target audience | Journalists, students, general | Churches, sermon teams |
Four things worth knowing before you commit a sermon archive to it.
One sermon a week at 45 minutes = $11.25 each, ~$540/year on Temi list pricing. The same volume here is a flat $228/year ($192 on quarterly billing) — well under half of Temi, with every extra upload included. Temi meters every minute; we don't.
Temi doesn't support Spanish, Korean, Mandarin, Portuguese, or any non-English language. For multi-ethnic congregations with even one Spanish or Korean service, Temi can't transcribe it. We run Whisper across 90+ languages with strong dialect coverage.
Temi is a general-purpose consumer tool. Scripture references stay spelled out ("John three sixteen"), Bible book names occasionally get autocorrected to common words ("Acts" becomes the verb), and theological vocabulary needs hand-cleanup every week. We bias toward sermon-specific behavior by default.
Easter week, Christmas services, a conference weekend — every extra recording drains the Temi balance at $0.25/min, and someone has to keep topping it up. A flat $19/month absorbs the busy seasons: December's fourteen services cost the same as July's four.
Where Temi is fine, and where the price gap pays for itself in a month.
Volunteer media lead uploads Sunday night, posts to the church blog Monday morning for accessibility and SEO. No translation, no panel discussions, no podcast.
Temi
~$540/year list pricing. Works, but you're paying premium for a generic transcription tool that needs sermon cleanup.
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$228/year flat ($192 on quarterly billing) — well under half of Temi, unlimited uploads. Scripture auto-formats. Custom glossary for preacher names.
Two Sunday services, one English and one Spanish, transcribed weekly for the website. Same media team handles both.
Temi
English only. Spanish service can't be transcribed at all. You'd need a second tool for Spanish, splitting workflow and billing.
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Both services in one tool. Spanish dialects are handled accurately. One flat $19/month covers both. Custom glossary covers Spanish ministry terms.
Four campuses, weekly sermons, monthly Q&A panels, and an annual conference with 12 sessions across two days.
Temi
No true diarization. Q&A and panel transcripts need manual speaker labeling. Annual cost across all sessions: $2,000+ at list price.
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One flat $19/month covers all four campuses and every conference session — $228/year total. Shared glossary. (Like Temi, no named speaker labels on panels.)
Honest cases where switching isn't worth the friction.
If you already have a Temi account with prepaid credits and you transcribe one English sermon a month from clean studio audio, the friction of switching saves real but small dollars. Use up the credit balance, then revisit.
If you have multiple non-church use cases — journalist interviews, focus groups, voice memos for personal notes — and want a single transcription tool across all of them, Temi's general-purpose positioning is a defensible choice. We're sermon-tuned by design, so non-sermon audio still works on us but the brand is awkward.
If your church has a paid Rev.com subscription for human transcription and you use Temi as the AI fallback inside that ecosystem, consolidating into Rev's product is reasonable.
Four 45-minute sermons per month, full year. List pricing.
Including when Temi is the right call.
One complete sermon free, no card, no email gate. Upload a real sermon, check accuracy on your own audio, run the math against your Temi balance.
Start free transcriptionNo card. No meter. No language limits.