Russian Church Sermon Translation, Live

Sermon Translate listens to a sermon preached in Russian or English and shows it in the other language as captions while the pastor speaks. It serves Slavic churches whose children grew up in English and English-speaking churches with Russian-speaking members.

Parents in Russian, children in English

Many Slavic churches run into the same gap: the older generation worships in Russian, and the young people who grew up here think and read in English. Instead of splitting into two services, the pastor can preach in Russian while English captions run on the sanctuary screen, or preach in English while Russian captions help the grandparents follow.

  • Russian preaching with English captions for the second generation
  • English preaching with Russian captions for older members and new arrivals
  • The Subtitles screen can show the preacher's own line and the translated line together

What Sermon Translate does in Russian

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

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

Russian and Ukrainian readers in the same service

Ukrainian is also supported in both directions, so a church that welcomes both communities can show Russian and Ukrainian captions side by side. The Subtitles screen projects up to 5 caption languages at once, and Multiple mode shows up to 5 languages side by side on one device. 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.

Getting ready for Sunday

Give the laptop a clean feed from the sound desk or a microphone near the pulpit, choose Russian or English as the speaker language, and choose the reading language. Add the names of your pastors, deacons, ministries and any Russian terms your church uses in a particular way to the church glossary once, and every service uses the same wording.

How a church sets up Russian 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 Russian 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

Can the pastor preach in Russian and the screen show English?

Yes. Choose Russian as the speaker language and English as the reading language, then put the captions on the projector with the Subtitles screen.

Where do the Russian Bible book names come from?

The 66 book names were taken from the Russian Synodal translation, so a spoken book name is written the way that Bible writes it.

Will a verse popup show the Russian 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. The reference itself still comes through in the Russian captions.

What does it cost to show Russian 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 Russian live?

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