A searchable study library for Pillar Baptist Church sermons, combining audio, time-synchronized transcripts, structured summaries, topic discovery, and an AI-assisted Librarian that retrieves relevant sermon excerpts.
A long-running sermon archive contains years of teaching, but audio by itself is hard to scan. Someone looking for a topic, passage, or remembered idea may not know which recording contains it or where in the recording it appears.
The approach
Pillar Archive adds a study layer around the original sermons. Each processed message can be searched, read through a synchronized transcript, explored through a structured summary, and rediscovered through themes or the Librarian's retrieved excerpts.
What it does
Searchable sermon library
Browse and search sermon metadata, topics, transcript text, and prepared summaries from one interface.
Read while listening
Time-aligned transcript highlighting keeps the written passage connected to the original audio.
Structured study material
Summaries organize the sermon into major ideas and supporting sections without replacing the source recording.
The Librarian
Ask a theological or topical question and retrieve relevant excerpts from the sermon collection for further listening and reading.
Design decisions
The choices that shaped how the project works.
Keep the source in view
Search results and AI-assisted discovery lead back to sermon material instead of presenting an answer detached from the archive.
Process once, explore many ways
A background pipeline prepares transcripts, seek timing, summaries, topics, and search data for a lightweight web experience.
Support quick lookup and deeper study
The interface offers direct browsing for known sermons as well as richer discovery when the user only remembers an idea.
