Audio Lectures: Turn Reports into 15-Minute Spoken Bible Studies
Convert devotional, teaching or scholarly reports into 15-minute audio lectures with phonetic fixes for biblical terms—fast MP3s attached to reports for travel.
Any completed Devotional, Teaching, or Scholarly report can now be converted into an audio lecture. Generate a report, click the audio button, and within a few minutes you have a roughly 15-minute spoken lecture based on that study. It costs 3 credits and is permanently attached to the report — listen as many times as you want.
How It Works
The system takes the full content of a completed report and uses it to write a lecture script in natural spoken prose. Not a summary, not a reading of the report. A lecture — written to be heard, with spoken transitions and a coherent arc from opening to close.
The voice adapts to the report type. A Scholarly report gets a seminar register — precise vocabulary, engagement with multiple interpretive traditions. A Teaching report sounds more homiletical — exegesis balanced with sermon applicability. A Devotional report is slower and more meditative.
The Phonetics Problem
Text-to-speech engines are genuinely bad at biblical vocabulary. Transliterated Hebrew and Greek, Latin theological terms, pericope names, place names with unusual stress patterns — a TTS engine will confidently mispronounce all of them.
Before synthesis, the script goes through a second AI pass that identifies words the engine is likely to get wrong and rewrites them as phonetic approximations in plain English. Not IPA — just normal-looking text that happens to sound right when read aloud. "Pericope" becomes "peh rickopee." "Lectio difficilior" becomes "lekteeoh difficileeor." Common names the engine already handles well are left alone.
It's not a perfect system, but it's dramatically better than sending raw theological text straight to synthesis.
The Audio
The final script is synthesized into an MP3 and linked permanently to the report. The transcript is saved separately, so if you want to read along or pull a quote, it's there.
What It's For
The obvious use case is commute and travel study. A 15-minute lecture on a passage fits naturally into a drive or a walk. If you're preaching through a book and generating scholarly reports as you go, you can listen to the lecture version while the full written report stays open for reference.
It also works well for anything you've already generated and want to revisit. Reports sitting in your collection are now a single click away from being something you can put on while doing something else.
If you haven't generated a report yet, the community gallery has shared examples to browse. Generate one from the report creation page, then look for the audio button once it's complete. Audio lectures are also available in the iOS app, with full lock screen playback controls.
God bless, everyone.
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