Sessions & Transcript History
Every service Kairos runs is saved end-to-end, full transcript, every detection, every queued verse, all media. Browse, rename, export.
Kairos records each service automatically. When you start a session, everything that happens, the live transcript, every detected verse, every verse you queued, the media you sent on-air, is captured into a session record you can come back to later.
Where sessions live
Open the sessions view from the dashboard chrome (clapperboard icon). The left rail lists every recorded session, newest first, with its title, date, and run length. The right pane shows the selected session's contents.
Each session has four tabs:
- Transcript: the full sermon transcript, segmented by speaker turn with timestamps.
- Verses: every verse that went to the live overlay during the service, in order.
- Detections: every candidate Kairos surfaced, including the ones you didn't end up queueing. Each entry shows the strategy that caught it (direct, semantic, quotation, or reading mode) and the confidence score.
- Media: any background images, theme assets, or other media that appeared on-air during the service.
Renaming and deleting
By default a session is named after the service date. Click the pencil icon next to a session name to rename it ("Easter Sunday 2026, Pastor James"). Click the trash icon to delete.
Deletes are permanent
Deleting a session removes its transcript, detections, queue, and media from the local store. There is no undo. If you might want it later, export it first.
Exporting
Each session can be exported in three formats:
- JSON: the complete machine-readable record. The same shape Kairos stores internally. Good for archiving or feeding into another tool.
- Markdown: a human-readable document with the transcript, the list of verses shown on-air, and detection details. Good for sharing with the pastor or the teaching team after a service.
- Plain text: just the transcript and the verses, no formatting. Good for pasting into a notes app.
Export from the actions row at the top of the detail pane. The exported file lands in your Downloads folder.
What sessions are good for
- Post-service review: what got cited, what got missed, what the pastor pivoted to.
- Teaching teams: share the markdown export so the team has the exact references for follow-up notes.
- Sermon archive: every service searchable, even months later.
- Quality improvement: see which detection strategies are firing most and tune your confidence threshold accordingly.