Church glossary
Names spelled right. Your church’s words, every Sunday.
Voclyn’s glossary teaches both the speech engine and the translator your pastors’ names and your church’s own words. Your church decides between 神 and 上帝, 하나님 and 하느님, culto and Misa, and every phone uses that choice.
See it
Your words, on every phone.
Set a name or a church word once, and every caption uses it. Switch the glossary off and on to see the difference.
Your glossary
- 黃牧師NameEnglish Pastor Wong
- GodChurch word中文 神Español Dios
- ServiceChurch word中文 崇拜Español culto
Said “今日由黃牧師講道。”
English phone Today Pastor Wong is preaching.
Said “God loves every one of us.”
中文 phone 神爱我们每一个人。
Said “Welcome to the service.”
Español phone Bienvenidos al culto.
Illustration. Without a glossary, our own test of 29 October 2026 wrote God as 上帝 in one sentence and 神 in the next.
Why a church needs one
General translation doesn’t know that your senior pastor is 黃牧師 and should read as Pastor Wong, that your youth group is called “The Upper Room”, or that your church writes God as 神 and not 上帝. Those are the words people notice first, and the ones that make a translation feel like it came from another church.
We saw it in our own test on 29 October 2026: with no glossary, the same service wrote God as 上帝 in one sentence and as 神 in the next. A glossary settles it once.
It works twice: when Voclyn hears, and when it writes
When it hears. Your terms are given to the speech engine as context before every service, so an unusual name is heard as that name and not as a common word that sounds like it. Up to 150 terms are passed this way each service.
When it writes. The translator must use your rendering of each term, in each language you filled in. A term you leave empty in one language is translated normally there. Up to 300 terms go to the translator each service.
Start from your tradition
Starter packs fill the words a tradition uses, so the first Sunday already sounds like your church:
| Pack | Examples |
|---|---|
| Chinese, Protestant (和合本) | 聖靈 · 崇拜 · 聖餐, with Cantonese, Traditional and Simplified renderings |
| Chinese, Catholic (思高) | 天主 · 彌撒 |
| Korean, Protestant and Catholic | 하나님 · 예배 or 하느님 · 미사 |
| Spanish, evangelical and Catholic | culto or Misa |
| English | Words said in Chinese, Korean or Spanish that should stay as your church says them in English |
A pack is a starting point. Importing it never overwrites a word your church has already set.
What to put in it
- Your pastors’, elders’ and staff names, as they should appear in each language.
- Ministries, groups and rooms: “Joy Fellowship”, “English ministry”, “the fellowship hall”.
- Words your tradition prefers: Communion or the Lord’s Supper, service or Mass.
- Place names and mission partners that come up often.
Fix it once in Monday's transcript
After a service, a team member can open its transcript and correct a word that was heard or translated wrong. The correction becomes a glossary term, used from the next service. Lists can also be imported and exported as CSV.
Questions
What churches ask.
Something else on your mind? Write to us at hello@voclyn.com.
No. Bible books and figures already take the standard names of each language's Bible, such as 和合本 names in Chinese.
Yes. Choose the Catholic pack for your languages: 天主 and 彌撒 in Chinese, 하느님 and 미사 in Korean, Misa in Spanish.
The church's owners and admins. Operators at the sound desk can run services without changing it.
From the next service you start. A service already running keeps the words it started with.
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