Burmese and Chin Church Translation for English Sermons

For Chin and Burmese families in English-speaking churches

Many Chin and Burmese believers worship in their own churches, and many others attend English-speaking congregations, especially the older generation who never learned English well. Captions in Hakha Chin, Mizo or Burmese let them read the whole sermon rather than catching a few words.

• Hakha Chin (Laiholh) captions
• Mizo captions
• Burmese captions in the Myanmar script

What works in each language today

Taken from the app's own language settings, so it matches what the app does now. Verse popups can show Bible text in English, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, Farsi / Persian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French, German and Filipino / Tagalog.

• Burmese: reading language only, the app cannot yet listen to preaching in it; no built-in church vocabulary yet; no verse popup text in this language yet.
• Hakha Chin: reading language only, the app cannot yet listen to preaching in it; no built-in church vocabulary yet; no verse popup text in this language yet.
• Mizo: reading language only, the app cannot yet listen to preaching in it; no built-in church vocabulary yet; no verse popup text in this language yet.

Honest about the limits

These languages are less common in translation engines than Spanish or Korean, so accuracy is lower, and there is no built-in church vocabulary for any of them. Ask a native reader to check the first services and add the words that come out wrong to the church glossary. Other Chin languages such as Falam, Tedim or Zomi are not supported.

Reading on a phone

Elders often prefer a phone held close to a projector across the room. With QR Code Join, included in every plan, anyone can scan a code and read the live captions in their browser without an account.

How to set it up 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 the reading language or languages your members need, 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

Can a Chin pastor preach in Hakha Chin with English captions?

Not yet. Hakha Chin, Mizo and Burmese are reading languages only; the app cannot listen to sermons preached in them.

Are Falam, Tedim or Zomi supported?

No. Of the Chin languages, only Hakha Chin and Mizo are supported today.

How accurate is it?

Less accurate than for widely used languages such as Spanish or Korean. Test with the free monthly hour and a native reader before relying on it.

What does it cost to run this 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.