What is Pewbeam and How Does it Work?
Overview
Pewbeam is a desktop app that detects Bible verses in real time during sermons and displays them on screen. It listens to the sermon, identifies scripture references whether quoted directly or paraphrased and displays the matching verse on your screen via broadcast outputs (NDI, HDMI, or in-app preview).
How Pewbeam Works
Pewbeam combines speech-to-text transcription with AI-powered Bible verse detection. Here is what happens behind the scenes:
- Audio capture: Pewbeam captures audio from your selected microphone or audio device.
- Live transcription: The audio is transcribed in real time using Deepgram (online).
- Verse detection: The transcript is processed for Bible references using Direct reference detection and Semantic search across 31,000+ verses.
- Display: Detected verses appear in AI Detections, where you can stage them in Preview, send them live, or add them to the queue.
Direct references appear almost instantly. Semantic matches usually arrive within a few moments of the spoken words.