Sermon transcription built for Baptist expository preaching

Yes. Our engines handle KJV English (thee, thou, hast, thine), older NASB phrasing, and modern ESV/CSB. Theological vocabulary that often trips general transcription tools (propitiation, justification, sanctification, hermeneutic, dispensation, supralapsarian, ekklesia) is recognized correctly without manual cleanup in the majority of Baptist expository sermons we see.

Verse references are spoken out loud in expository preaching and are captured at high accuracy. We see 'Romans 8:28-30,' 'Second Timothy 3:16,' and 'Ephesians chapter five verse twenty-five' all transcribed correctly. After transcription, you can run the output through our free Scripture density tool to validate every reference and get a count by book.

Most pastoral Greek and Hebrew word studies use the English transliteration (logos, agape, hesed, shalom, koinonia), which transcribes well. For more technical seminary-style word studies, expect to lightly proof Greek inflected forms. We recommend keeping a small glossary of recurring terms specific to your pastor's vocabulary and doing a quick find-and-replace before publishing.

Conference recordings transcribe fine — a two-hour pastor's conference session is included in the same flat plan as a Sunday sermon. Note that transcripts come back as continuous text without speaker labels, so for panel discussions and Q&A sessions most churches add the speaker names during a quick edit pass.

A 45-minute expository sermon typically takes 3-5 hours to manually type — that's 4-6 hours of volunteer time per week. AI transcription returns the same content in under 5 minutes on a flat $19/month plan — about $4.40 per sermon if you preach weekly, with midweek and Sunday-evening messages included at no extra cost. The volunteer time saved usually goes to lighter editing for theology and verse reference checks rather than typing from scratch.

Upload directly from the /transcribe page. Files up to 150MB are accepted on every plan, and longer sermons get split into chunks automatically. We support MP3, M4A, WAV, MP4, MOV, and most common audio/video formats. A typical 40-minute MP3 sermon at 96kbps is around 28-30MB — comfortably within the limit.

Yes — and Baptist churches see strong results because expository preaching produces dense, keyword-rich text on specific Bible passages. A sermon on Romans 8 becomes a page that ranks for long-tail Bible study queries — text a search engine can actually index, where before there was only an audio file. How much traffic that earns depends on your existing site, your topics, and how long you keep at it; anyone quoting you a guaranteed percentage in a fixed number of days is guessing.

Yes. Files are processed privately and are not used to train any third-party model. You retain full ownership of your sermon content. We do not publish or share transcripts unless you choose to do so.