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Sermons, full services and years of teaching turned into searchable text — including messages preached in Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa or Pidgin with English running right through them.

A media director or a church administrator, almost always the person who feels it. The release comes from the general overseer's or the resident pastor's office, and for a multi-branch ministry it goes through headquarters rather than the branch that raised it.

What this looks like today

  • Two or three services every week are recorded and archived, and the archive is unusable — nobody can find what was taught on a subject two years ago
  • Messages move between Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa or Pidgin and English in the same sentence, which is exactly where the tools the media team already tried give up
  • Sunday's message has to become devotionals, social clips, subtitles and a study guide, and the people doing it are volunteers with jobs on Monday
  • Quotes for graphics and the bulletin get typed out by hand, scrubbing back and forth through a recording to get one line right
  • A ministry with several branches has no shared record of what was preached where, so teaching cannot be reviewed, reused or built into a series

What changes

  • A full service comes back as text with speakers separated, so the preacher, the worship leader and a testimony stay distinguishable instead of running together
  • Messages preached in Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa or Pidgin are transcribed in the language they were preached in, code-switching intact, rather than flattened into an English paraphrase written afterwards
  • Translation renders a mixed-language message in one language when a branch or a diaspora congregation needs to read teaching they could not otherwise follow
  • AI notes pull the summary, the main points and the quotable lines out of a message, so the devotional and the social copy start from something instead of a blank page
  • Chat with the transcript to ask what was said about a subject, rather than re-listening to the whole message to find it
  • SRT and VTT exports caption the YouTube or Facebook upload, which reaches members watching on mute, members who are hard of hearing, and members abroad
  • Every message becomes searchable text, so a study series or a member's question can be answered from what was actually preached rather than from memory

Procurement, data and contracts

  • Invoiced annually, in Naira, against a purchase order or your internal finance request — no card on file, and no per-seat licence to reissue every time the media team changes
  • Congregational audio — testimonies, prayer and counselling included — is never used to train AI models. Text corrections are used only where an account has explicitly opted in, and a ministry account can have that off entirely
  • One account covers every branch off a pooled allowance, set to your real volume, so a convention week or a camp meeting does not need a plan change
  • View-only links let members, branch pastors or a study group read a transcript without an account and without occupying a seat
  • Recordings and transcripts belong to the ministry, and deleting one removes the data derived from it, not just the audio file
  • We are CAC-registered in Nigeria and invoice in Naira, so none of this needs a domiciliary account, a forex card or a foreign vendor registration

Frequently asked questions

Our pastor preaches in Yoruba and English in the same sentence. Does that work?

Yes, and that is the case AuTrans was built for rather than an edge case we tolerate. Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa and Nigerian Pidgin are first-class alongside Nigerian-accented English, and a message that switches language mid-sentence is handled as one recording — you do not have to cut the service into pieces first.

Can we get Sunday's service back in time to do anything with it?

Transcription takes minutes rather than hours; the exact time depends on the recording and on load at that moment. The practical change is that the notes, the clips and the captions get started on Sunday afternoon instead of Wednesday, when the week has already moved on.

We have several branches. How does that work?

One account holds a pool of hours that every branch draws from, and headquarters is invoiced once a year. There is no per-branch licence to administer. Tell us roughly how many hours of service audio a year the whole ministry records and we will quote against that, rather than against a published tier that would not fit you.

Are recordings of our services private?

Audio is never used to train AI models, under any plan, and that includes testimonies, prayer and counselling. Text corrections can be used to improve the product only where an account has explicitly opted in, and a ministry account can simply have that off. Nothing is public unless you deliberately share a view-only link, and anything can be deleted on request along with the data derived from it.

We are one congregation, not a large ministry. Is this for us?

Yes. Start on the free plan — 30 minutes every month — and run your own service audio through it before anyone commits anything. Per-file pricing from $0.20 covers a church that records one service a week and would rather not hold a plan at all. When your volume grows past that, or you add branches, an annual arrangement becomes cheaper and we will tell you when you get there.

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Tell us your volume and we'll quote

Roughly how many hours of audio a year, and in which languages. We price against that rather than a published tier. You can also start on the free plan first and run your own recordings through it before anyone raises a purchase order.

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