The sermon, read aloud in your language.

1. People scan the church’s QR code and choose their language. No app, no account.
2. They tap Listen and put in earbuds. The page asks them to use earphones, so the people beside them hear the service, not the phone.
3. The voice reads each sentence once its translation arrives, a few seconds behind the speaker (our estimate). The captions stay on the page, so a missed word can be read.
4. They can lock the phone and put it in a pocket: the voice keeps playing.

When the speaker turns to the listener’s own language, the voice goes quiet and the page says “Original · you’re hearing the speaker”. In the built-in browsers of some messaging apps, such as KakaoTalk, WeChat or Instagram, the page asks people to open it in Safari or Chrome for sound.

The AI voice speaks the languages most churches use, among them English, Spanish, Mandarin (Simplified), Mandarin (Traditional), Korean, Vietnamese, Tagalog and Portuguese. In the others, people read the captions.

On Chapel, Church and Campus, each of a church’s languages that the voice speaks has it, with nothing to switch on, and on Church and Campus so does any other a visitor chooses. Free has captions only. What each language can do.

• There are no hours to count: the AI voice is part of the same fair use as translation.
• Voice is made only while someone is listening in that language.
• We never stop a service halfway: it finishes with the languages and voice it started with.
• The free trial is everything in Church, voice included: 30 days of the Church plan free, no card.

See the plans.

The traditional way to hear a sermon in another language is a headset system: an interpreter speaks into a microphone, a transmitter sends each language on its own channel, and every listener wears a receiver. In October 2026 a one-language system for ten listeners was $1,085 (Enersound TSB-10), before the interpreter.

With the AI voice, people use their own phone and earbuds. There is nothing to buy, charge, hand out or collect, and every voice language plays at once without an interpreter for each.

What receivers do better

• They don’t depend on Wi-Fi or mobile data.
• A human interpreter brings judgment, warmth and a real voice.
• They work for people without a smartphone, and can double as assistive listening for people with hearing loss.

A church can keep a few receivers for the people who need them and let phones carry the rest. Headsets, interpreters and phones compared.

The voice is a computer voice reading the AI translation. Unless your church uses the pastor’s own voice, it doesn’t imitate the pastor; either way, the page says “AI voice” for as long as it plays (for the pastor’s voice, “Pastor David’s AI voice”), and “About these captions” explains it in the listener’s language.

When the pastor names a passage and reads it, English, Spanish, Korean, Cantonese and Mandarin listeners hear the verse from their published Bible instead of a translation. About Scripture lock.

Listening uses about 11 MB of data an hour; captions alone use a few MB an hour. Phones can use the church Wi-Fi or mobile data.

On Church and Campus, listeners can hear the translation in the pastor’s own voice, only with the consent of the person whose voice it is, given in their own voice. Church keeps 3 voices, Campus 10. In languages a cloned voice can’t speak, listeners hear the usual AI voice.

In Settings › Voices, the person whose voice it is reads a short statement in the language they will read aloud (English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Korean or Mandarin), signs it with their name and ticks the box themselves. Then they read about 20 seconds aloud, starting with their consent, and the recording is checked to say those words before the voice is made, so nobody can be cloned from a sermon clip or a call.

A room’s voice reads whoever is speaking in it, a guest preacher too, and every phone names it: “Pastor David’s AI voice”, made with their permission. The voice is deleted when your church deletes it, or 90 days after your plan stops including it.