Community guide
How to make a weekly audio church bulletin (with AI)
Your weekly bulletin, read aloud — announcements, a reflection, and the schedule in one warm edition.
Turn this Sunday's bulletin — announcements, a short reflection, and the week's schedule — into a warm spoken edition your parish can listen to anywhere, in minutes.
Plenty of parishioners never pick up the printed bulletin — they're hurrying out after Mass, watching online, or simply can't read small print anymore. An audio church bulletin meets them where they are: a few warm minutes they can play in the car, on a walk, or over Sunday coffee, covering the same announcements, reflection, and schedule you already write each week.
The Church Bulletin template does the production for you. You drop in this week's bulletin text — or just the highlights — and Pollinator Studio shapes it into a friendly spoken edition with a welcoming host, an optional second voice for the reflection, a gentle music bed, and an intro and outro that sound like your parish. No recording booth, no editing software, no asking a volunteer to read it perfectly in one take.
How to make one with Pollinator Studio
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Start from the Church Bulletin template
Open Templates and click Church Bulletin to start in one tap. It comes preset for a weekly parish edition — a warm welcome, an announcements segment, a short reflection, and the week's schedule — so you can use it exactly as-is or customize any part before you generate.
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Add this week's bulletin
Paste your bulletin text, drop in the highlights as a short list, or point it at the URL of your online bulletin. You don't need polished prose — note the Mass times, the second collection, the funeral and the food drive, and let the AI script smooth it into something listenable.
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Choose your voices
The template defaults to a warm pastoral host (Vindemiatrix) with Sulafat as an optional second voice for the reflection. Preview any of the 73 voices and pick one that sounds like your parish — then set each host's delivery and pace so announcements feel brisk and the reflection feels unhurried.
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Generate and review the script
Pollinator Studio writes the full edition — greeting, announcements, reflection, and schedule read-out. Read it through and edit freely: fix a name, drop an event that was cancelled, or adjust the intro and outro prompts so it always opens with your parish name and closes with the next Sunday's date.
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Set the mood and the cover
Pick a soft instrumental bed from the 83-track music library — light under announcements, quieter under the reflection — and add cover art: generate one with AI or upload your parish crest or a photo of the church. Add pronunciation rules for tricky saints' names, your pastor's name, or local place names so they're spoken correctly every week.
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Render, publish, and save your template
Render to a clean MP3 in a couple of minutes. Download it to attach in your weekly email or embed on the parish site, or submit your built-in RSS feed once to Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Amazon Music so every future edition publishes automatically. Save your tweaks as a custom template and next week's bulletin is a one-click job.
Make it your own
The Church Bulletin template is ready to use as-is — one click and you're generating. But every part is editable: swap any of the 73 AI voices and set each host's delivery and pace, change the background music, edit the AI script and intro/outro prompts, set the length, and add your own or AI-generated cover art. Use it exactly as-is, or make it yours: swap in a voice that sounds like your parish, soften the background music for the reflection, rewrite the intro to greet your community by name, set the length to match a typical bulletin, add your parish crest as cover art — then save it as your own template so next Sunday is a one-click job.
Prefer to start from scratch? Build your own custom template and save your setup to reuse for every future episode.
Tips for a great community episode
- Keep it to one focused edition per week — lead with the most important announcement (a special Mass, a death in the parish, a deadline) rather than burying it.
- Read times and dates the way people say them: 'this Saturday the fourteenth at five-thirty' lands better in audio than '5:30 PM 6/14'.
- Use a slightly slower pace and a quieter music bed under the reflection so it has room to breathe — it's the part people will replay.
- Add pronunciation rules for saints' names, liturgical terms, and your clergy's names once; they'll be spoken correctly in every future edition.
- Always close by naming the next weekend's Masses and any holy day of obligation — it's the most-used part of the bulletin.
What you can do with Pollinator Studio
- 100+ ready-made templates — one click to start
- 73 AI voices — preview + per-host delivery & pace
- AI script from a URL, pasted text, or a topic
- 83-track licensed music + transition library
- AI-generated (or upload your own) cover art
- One-click RSS distribution to Spotify, Apple & Amazon
Try the Church Bulletin template free
30 minutes of audio per month. No credit card, no microphone.
Start freeFrequently asked questions
Do I need recording equipment or a volunteer to read it?
No. The hosts are AI voices, so there's no microphone, no editing, and no scheduling a reader. You paste the bulletin and Pollinator Studio voices it, mixes the music, and renders the MP3 for you.
Can I just paste our existing bulletin?
Yes — paste the full text, drop in the URL of your online bulletin, or list just the highlights. The AI script turns rough notes and a schedule into a warm, listenable edition you can edit before generating.
How do I get saints' names and our pastor's name pronounced right?
Add them to your workspace or project pronunciation rules once. From then on, every weekly edition pronounces them correctly without you re-checking.
How long should a weekly audio bulletin be?
Three to six minutes is the sweet spot — long enough for announcements, a short reflection, and the schedule, short enough that people finish it on the drive home. You can set the target length in the template.
Can parishioners subscribe instead of getting a file each week?
Yes. Submit your built-in RSS feed once to Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Amazon Music, and every new edition appears automatically — or just download the MP3 to email out and embed on your parish website.
