Live Church Translation for Every Language in Your Congregation

Translate Sunday services across English, Traditional Chinese, Cantonese, Fuzhounese, Korean, Japanese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese and 115 more, with live captions and Bible verse popups.

One sermon translated into three languages at once

One English source feeds live Traditional Chinese, Korean and Spanish translations in the real Multiple Languages screen.

Screen recording from the real app, with captions and a written description.

  1. Multiple Languages opens with English listening and three target panels: Traditional Chinese, Korean and Spanish.
  2. The pastor says, "Good morning, church. Open your Bibles with me, to John chapter 3, verse 16."
  3. All three panels fill from the same microphone at the same time, without changing the source language.
  4. The pastor quotes John 3:16 in full.
  5. Traditional Chinese, Korean and Spanish each carry the finished verse, translated from one source.

Put the captions into OBS, and drag them under the video

Copy OBS URL gives you one web link. Add it to OBS as a Browser Source, set the size, and drag it wherever you want it, including underneath the video. Here it captions a Korean sermon into English while it moves.

Screen recording from the real app, with captions and a written description.

  1. Step 1. In OBS, add a new source and choose Browser.
  2. Step 2. Paste the link the app's Copy OBS URL button gave you into the URL field. The session code is blurred here.
  3. Step 3. Set the size of the source: 1500 by 260.
  4. Step 4. Press OK.
  5. The captions are now a source in the scene, waiting for the Subtitles page to start.
  6. Live in OBS: the captions translate a Korean sermon into English and are dragged down to sit underneath the video, still updating.

Built for multilingual churches

Sermon Translate is used in multilingual and bilingual congregations to translate the full Sunday service (sermon, announcements, prayer and Bible reading) into every language the pew needs at once.

What's included

Live translation, automatic Bible verse popups, recorded transcripts, a custom glossary for church-specific names, and large-text captions so members with weaker reading skills can still follow.

  • Low-latency captions, anywhere with internet
  • Bilingual Bible (native + target side-by-side)
  • No headsets, no extra hardware, no interpreter booth
  • Plans start at $19.99/month

You choose the speaker language and the translation language

Nothing is locked to one language or direction. Before the service, choose the language being spoken and the language, or languages, the congregation reads. English, Traditional Chinese, Cantonese, Korean, Japanese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Vietnamese and 53 more can be set as the source, and English, Traditional Chinese, Cantonese, Fuzhounese, Korean, Japanese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese and 115 more are available as targets.

  • Speaker language picker: choose whatever the pulpit is preaching in
  • Translation language picker: choose the reading language for the screen, and members using the app on their own phone pick their own
  • 61 languages can be spoken from the pulpit, and all 123 can be read as captions
  • The full list, and which ones have built-in Bible book names, is on the languages page

How do churches translate sermons live with this app?

The speaker opens Sermon Translate on a phone, tablet or laptop, selects the spoken language and the translation language, and starts listening. Transcripts and translations appear on that device, and the whole room can read them as captions on a projector or livestream. No headsets, no interpreter booth, no extra hardware.

Which languages are supported?

Sermon Translate supports 123 languages. 61 of them can be spoken from the pulpit, including English, Traditional Chinese, Cantonese, Korean, Japanese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Vietnamese and 53 more, and all 123 can be read as captions. Every listener can pick their own reading language. The full list is on the languages page.

How is this different from Google Translate or generic AI translation apps?

Google Translate is a powerful general-purpose translator. Sermon Translate is designed around the workflow of a Christian service: church vocabulary, hymn titles, proper names, Bible book names, and verse-reference popups that appear when the speaker clearly references a passage.

Do we need to install anything?

No. It runs in a modern browser on iPhone, Android and desktop. The speaker opens it on one device, and the congregation reads the captions on the projector or livestream. Anyone who wants captions on their own phone opens Sermon Translate there and signs in; each listener needs their own account or trial after the free period.

Can it replace a human interpreter?

Sermon Translate works as a sermon interpreter app for live services and handles common preaching vocabulary well. A church can use it as the main translation for weekly services, or alongside a human interpreter for rare languages or high-stakes events. It is a tool, not a person.

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