Click a sentence and the sermon plays from there
The whole sermon as text, tied to the recording sentence by sentence, so reading it and hearing it are the same act.
On the sermon page
Reading and listening at once
- Click a line to hear it
- The whole width of a paragraph is a seek target, and a click inside the prose starts the recording at the sentence under the pointer. Nobody has to hunt for a scrubber and guess at a minute.
- Every paragraph has an address
- A link to a paragraph opens the sermon there, with the audio cued to that spot. Someone can send a friend the part that mattered instead of a forty-minute file.
- The page keeps up with the sermon
- While it plays, the current paragraph is marked, and the page turns with it while you’re following along. Scroll off to read something else and one tap in the player at the bottom brings you back.
- Searchable to the word
- Your library searches the whole transcript, not only titles and summaries, so a phrase somebody half remembers finds the sermon it came from.
- Readable without JavaScript
- If the script never loads, the transcript is still there in full and the browser’s own audio player still plays. A phone on a weak signal in the church parking lot still gets the sermon.
An example link to one paragraph. The church and its sermon are invented.
The home page plays the opening of a Spurgeon sermon with the transcript our pipeline made of it. Press play there and follow the text.
Inside the transcript
We restore what the transcription misheard, and leave the preaching as it was said
24:02Then heard as Nebakanezer clarified as Nebuchadnezzar was full of fury, and the form of his face was
changed, and the three of them still wouldn’t bow.
Nebuchadnezzar“Nebakanezer” isn’t a word in any dictionary, so it’s safe to clarify it everywhere it appears.An example clarification
Names are the most common clarification, and they aren’t the only one. A transcription also mishears the old wording of a passage read aloud, the authors a preacher quotes, and plain words, and each is clarified the same way. A misheard word that’s also an ordinary word, a letter or two, or more than one word is riskier, so the engine clarifies it only at the exact places where it can verify what was said. Anywhere it can’t, the word is left as it was heard and flagged, so the worst case is a missed fix and never a changed sentence.
The summary, the tags, the citations, and the quotes live beside the transcript, never inside it. A person at your church reads the whole sermon before it publishes, with every clarification listed on the review screen, and your export carries the original transcription data exactly as it arrived, so anyone can check the transcript against it.
The edits we make, from real sermons
- Biblical names
- “Ishbasheth” heard, “Ishbosheth” written
- Scripture’s wording
- “lieth weight” heard, “lieth in wait” written
- Other names
- “Weirs” heard, “Wiersbe” written
- Misheard words
- “paper purpose” heard, “proper purpose” written
- God and Lord
- Capitals where the transcription wrote them lowercase, off until you turn them on
- Anything else
- None
- Original
- Kept as it arrived, and in your export
Tell us about your church
Once your account is set up, your first upload comes back as a transcript, ready for someone at your church to read over and publish.