After Microsoft Translator, keep the sermon on every phone.

Microsoft Translator’s multi-device conversation, often called Converse, let one person start a conversation and share a short code. Others joined on their own phones and read along in their own language, and a host giving a talk could turn on Presenter mode, which muted everyone else.

Microsoft’s own app listings on Google Play and the App Store now say: “The multi-device conversation feature has been retired.” The update that says so, version 26.7.1, came out on 30 June 2026, according to the App Store’s version history, APKMirror’s copy of the release notes and WhistleOut’s report.

We found no other announcement from Microsoft, and its website’s help pages for the feature were still online when we checked on 29 October 2026.

For some churches it was a free way to put the sermon on phones. In January 2025, someone who ran it at their church described the set-up on Microsoft Q&A: since March 2023, a phone in Presenter mode heard the preacher’s Vietnamese, and people joined in the app or a browser with a five-letter code, a made-up name and their language, usually English.

The post asked whether anything worked “just like the MS Translator app” in Presenter mode. One voice at the front and many phones in the pews is the job Voclyn is built for.

We make Voclyn. Facts about Microsoft Translator come from Microsoft’s own app listings and pages, checked on 29 October 2026.

1. Start your church. Add its name and logo and choose its link, such as voclyn.com/grace-church. Once its QR code is ready, keep it with your name and email: 30 days of the Church plan free, no card.
2. Set the languages. Say what is spoken at the front, Vietnamese for example, or let Voclyn detect it, and pick the languages phones show first, such as English. Anyone can still choose their own.
3. Connect the sound desk. A laptop or an old phone takes the sermon from the mixer’s spare output, or sits near a speaker. The desk runs in the browser, with nothing to install.
4. Print the QR code. The print kit has a poster, a table tent, pew cards and a slide for the screen. Presenter mode made a new code each time it started; your QR code and link stay the same every week.
5. Rehearse on a weekday. Go live, open the link on a phone and speak. A run shorter than 10 minutes is a rehearsal, so it doesn’t count as one of Free’s services.
6. On Sunday, hold to go live. People scan the code, choose their language and read along, or listen in earbuds on a paid plan. Nobody types a code or a name.

A church like the one on Microsoft Q&A, preaching in Vietnamese with English on the phones, fits the Free plan: 6 hours a month, captions in one language plus your main language, with no time limit. See the plans.

• Made for a service. The desk goes live with a hold and rests with one tap while the church sings (lyrics aren’t translated), and a private moment hides captions on every phone, with nothing saved.
• Switch languages mid-sentence. Voclyn detects the language being spoken by itself, so a pastor can tell a story in Korean and make the point in English without anyone touching a setting. How switching works.
• Your church’s words. Voclyn’s glossary teaches both the speech engine and the translator your pastors’ names and your church’s words. Your church chooses 神 or 上帝, 하나님 or 하느님, culto or Misa, starting from a pack for its tradition, and a fix in Monday’s transcript is used from the next service. About the glossary.
• Bible readings from the Bible. When the pastor names a passage and reads it, English, Spanish, Korean, Cantonese and Mandarin readers see it from the published Bible their church chose (the BSB or KJV, the Reina-Valera 1909, 개역한글, and 和合本 in its 神 or 上帝 edition), marked “Published text · not AI”, on phones and the big screen, and the voice reads the verse. Other languages get the reading translated and labelled AI. About Scripture lock.
• Read it or hear it. Captions grow up to 42 px for older eyes. On paid plans an AI voice (TTS) reads the translation aloud, keeps playing with the phone locked and is labelled AI.
• Flat monthly plans, unlimited listeners. Free, then $69, $99 or $249 a month (C$99, C$139, C$349). Paid plans have unlimited translation hours (fair use) and include the AI voice in each of your languages it speaks, with no hours to count; no service is cut halfway.
• Nothing for listeners to install. No app, no account, no cookies or trackers, and service audio is never stored.

• It was free for everyone, with no plan to choose and nothing to count.
• It worked anywhere: a classroom, a meeting, a chat with a neighbour, a trip abroad. Voclyn is made for church services.
• Conversation went both ways, with everyone speaking their own language. Voclyn carries the service one way, from the front to the pews, and the listener page never uses the microphone.
• The app still translates text, speech and photos for free, and text even offline with downloaded language packs. Voclyn needs an internet connection at the desk and on each phone.

Keep Microsoft Translator on your phone for one-on-one conversations, travel and text: it is free and made for that. For a service, where one person speaks and a room follows, use a tool made for that. Voclyn’s Free plan covers a church translating into one language; paid plans add captions in every language, the AI voice and the big screen.