How to add automatic captions to sermon videos

Updated September 20, 2026 · 5 min read

Most people watch video in the feed with the sound off. Without captions, your message simply is not read. Captioning by hand is slow and tiring — but AI transcription now does it in seconds, with high accuracy.

Why captions are not optional

• The large majority of feed video is watched without audio.
• Captions raise retention time, and retention drives reach.
• They make your content accessible to deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers.

How automatic transcription works

Modern speech recognition models such as Whisper convert audio into text with punctuation and word-level timing. That is what allows captions to appear exactly as each word is spoken.

FeedChurch uses that approach to burn styled captions into every clip, with no manual typing — and with handling for religious vocabulary, where generic transcription usually stumbles.

Step by step

• Paste the link of the sermon video.
• The AI transcribes the speech automatically.
• Captions are burned into each generated clip, already in sync.
• Download the finished, captioned video in high resolution.