Arabic Church Sermon Translation with Right to Left Captions

For Arabic-speaking churches and the churches that host them

Arabic-speaking believers come from many countries and church traditions, and many join English-speaking congregations. Sermon Translate lets them read the sermon in Arabic in the same room, and lets an Arabic-speaking pastor preach to a congregation where the young people read English more comfortably.

• Arabic preaching with English captions for the second generation
• English preaching with Arabic captions, written right to left
• Arabic and English lines can share the projector screen

What Sermon Translate does in Arabic

Arabic works in both directions: a preacher can speak Arabic into the app, and members can read the sermon in Arabic.

• The 66 Bible book names are built in for Arabic, taken from a published Arabic Bible, so a spoken book name comes out the way that Bible writes it. Other church vocabulary is general translation guided by church context, and your church glossary fixes the terms that matter to you.
• Verse popups cannot show the passage in Arabic yet, because the Bible editions connected today cover only English, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, Farsi / Persian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French, German and Filipino / Tagalog.
• Arabic captions are laid out right to left.

Arabic and Farsi ministry side by side

Churches that serve both Arabic and Persian speakers can show both caption languages at once: the Subtitles screen projects up to 5 languages together, and Farsi has the full built-in church vocabulary. Free and Basic include one reading language, Standard includes two and All Languages includes every language. Each language beyond that uses another hour of plan time for every hour of the service.

Check it with your own sermon

Arabic is spoken very differently from region to region, and a preacher's own dialect affects recognition. Use this month's 1 free hour on a recording of your own preacher and a native reader before you rely on it for a whole service.

How a church sets up Arabic captions for a service

One laptop, tablet or phone near the pulpit does the work. Give it clean sound from the sound desk or a microphone close to the preacher, sign in, choose the language being preached and Arabic as a reading language, and start. The room reads the captions on the projector through the Subtitles screen, online viewers see them in the livestream through the OBS overlay, and members who prefer their own phone scan a QR code with QR Code Join, included in every plan, and read with no account.

• Before the service: add names, ministries and church terms to the glossary, and choose a Bible version for verse popups
• During the service: keep the device on power and online; captions follow the preaching sentence by sentence
• After the service: the transcript is saved to the account, and the Standard plan turns it into AI sermon notes

Which Arabic Bible do the book names come from?

The 66 book names were taken from the New Arabic Version (Ketab El Hayat), so a spoken book name comes out the way that Bible writes it.

Does it handle Arabic dialects?

The app hears Arabic and translates what it recognizes, but clarity and dialect affect accuracy. Test with your own preacher using the free monthly hour.

Can a verse popup show the Arabic Bible text?

Not yet. The Bible editions connected to verse popups today cover English, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, Farsi / Persian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French, German and Filipino / Tagalog.

What does it cost to show Arabic captions every Sunday?

Every account gets 1 free hour every month of live translation, enough to test a full service. Basic is $19.99 a month for 12 hours and Standard is $34 a month for 30 hours. Free and Basic include one reading language, Standard includes two and All Languages includes every language. Each language beyond that uses another hour of plan time for every hour of the service.

Can an English sermon be translated into Arabic live?

Yes. Choose English, or the language your pastor preaches in, as the speaker language and Arabic as the reading language. Arabic can also be preached into the app, so a Arabic sermon can be read in English or another language.