Daily allowances
Fifteen grounded study generations and eight audio transcriptions per signed-in account per day, resetting at 00:00 UTC. The remaining count is shown in the create view.
sermon transcription service
A sermon transcription service with its limits printed on the tin
Most transcription services quote a price and a turnaround. This one publishes the quotas, the storage model, and the deletion path before you sign in.
You are comparing options for a church or teaching ministry and need to know the operating limits before committing a week of recordings to a tool.
What HomilyForge actually does here
Commercial workflow, quotas, editing, export, and current limits.
Private by default
Studies live in an owner-scoped Firebase library. Firestore access is server-only and every path is derived from the verified identity, never from the browser.
Leave whenever
Export the whole account as JSON, or permanently delete every study, source version, usage record, profile, and the sign-in identity itself.
A worked example
The service produces this shape of output for every message. The example below is generated from original demonstration material by the same engine the product uses.
Preparation begins long before the room fills. Notes made in a hurry rarely survive the week. Listening well is slower than agreeing quickly.
Preparation begins long before the room fills
A message becomes useful when someone has already sat with it, argued with it, and written down the part they still do not understand. Philippians 4:6-7 keeps surfacing in this kind of preparation, because anxiety is usually the first thing that crowds out attention.
Source paragraph §1
Preparation begins long before the room fills. A message becomes useful when someone has already sat with it, argued with it, and written down the part they still do not understand. Philippians 4:6-7 keeps surfacing in this kind of preparation, because anxiety is usually the first thing that crowds out attention.
Notes made in a hurry rarely survive the week
They record what was said without recording where it was said, so no later review can check a single claim. A paragraph number is a small thing, and it is what separates a quotation from a memory.
Source paragraph §2
Notes made in a hurry rarely survive the week. They record what was said without recording where it was said, so no later review can check a single claim. A paragraph number is a small thing, and it is what separates a quotation from a memory.
Listening well is slower than agreeing quickly
A talk that moves fast invites us to keep the conclusions and quietly drop the reasoning that produced them. Psalm 34:18 was read twice here, and attention to that repetition changes how the middle of the argument should be weighed.
Source paragraph §3
Listening well is slower than agreeing quickly. A talk that moves fast invites us to keep the conclusions and quietly drop the reasoning that produced them. Psalm 34:18 was read twice here, and attention to that repetition changes how the middle of the argument should be weighed.
- Philippians 4:6-7
- Psalm 34:18
Demonstration material written for HomilyForge and processed by the same engine the product uses. No supplied recording or transcript is ever published as an example.
How the workflow works
Step 1
Supply the message
Paste a transcript or upload a supported audio file for transient transcription in a private workspace.
Step 2
Structure the source
Number paragraphs and derive summaries, outlines, explicit references, questions, and applications with visible source links.
Step 3
Review and export
Edit the material, verify interpretation and permissions with a qualified human, then export Markdown or a print-ready view.
Limits that apply before you start
Useful search results begin with an accurate promise. These are the current bounds on this job.
- Payments are disabled and absent from the interface. There is no paid tier, invoice, or per-minute rate to compare.
- An account holds up to 40 studies, each keeping its ten most recent source versions.
- There is no turnaround guarantee, managed queue, or support SLA. Transcription happens while you wait, or it fails and tells you why.
Questions about sermon transcription service
What does the HomilyForge transcription service cost?
Nothing today. Payments are disabled and the interface has no billing step. The trade is the published daily allowance rather than a price.
Can a whole church team share one library?
Not yet. Libraries are owner-scoped to a single signed-in account. Shared libraries, roles, and approval history are on the backlog, not in the product.
How do I remove everything if we stop using it?
The account page deletes every cloud study, source version, usage record, profile document, and the Firebase identity in one action.