Malayalam Church Sermon Translation for Malayali Congregations

Malayalam preaching, English for the next generation

Malayali congregations abroad, across many church traditions, often hear the same request from their youth: we love the church, but we do not follow the Malayalam sermon. Malayalam preaching with English captions on the screen answers it without splitting the service.

What Sermon Translate does in Malayalam

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

• The 66 Bible book names are built in for Malayalam, taken from a published Malayalam 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 Malayalam 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.

What is built in

The 66 book names come from the Malayalam Old Version, so a spoken book name is written the way that Bible writes it. Doctrinal terms and titles are general translation, so add your church's Malayalam and English wording to the church glossary.

• Malayalam to English captions
• English to Malayalam for guest speakers
• Transcripts saved in the spoken language, and AI sermon notes on the Standard plan

Conventions and special meetings

For a convention with a visiting English speaker, reverse the direction and put Malayalam captions on the screen. The livestream can carry the same captions through the Copy OBS URL button.

How a church sets up Malayalam 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 Malayalam 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 Malayalam Bible do the book names follow?

The Malayalam Old Version.

Can members read on their phones?

Yes, with their own account (a plan once its free monthly hour is used), or with no account at all by scanning the church's QR code (QR Code Join, included in every plan).

Can a verse popup show the Malayalam 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 Malayalam 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 Malayalam live?

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