Cantonese, with a speech engine of its own.

Cantonese and Mandarin are different spoken languages that share a written one, and the speech engine most rooms use hears both as Chinese. So when a church says Cantonese is spoken at the front, its room uses a second speech engine, one that hears Cantonese as Cantonese, for the whole service.

That engine hears English and Mandarin too, so the preacher can still move between 廣東話, 普通话 and English, even mid-sentence, and Voclyn detects each phrase by itself. How language switching works.

Without translation on phones, a joint service of Cantonese, Mandarin and English congregations often means an interpreter relaying the sermon on stage, paragraph by paragraph, and a sermon twice as long.

With Voclyn the pastor preaches once, in whichever language is natural. Each person scans the church’s QR code and reads in 廣東話, 國語（繁體）, 普通话（简体）, English, or any of the 100+ languages offered. Translation for Chinese churches.

What the pastor says in Cantonese is shown to Cantonese readers as said, in Traditional characters, marked 原聲 (Original). What is said in English or Mandarin is translated for them into Hong Kong Traditional characters, written as standard written Chinese (書面語) rather than colloquial characters such as 嘅, 係 or 喺, with full-width punctuation and 「」 quotation marks.

The listener page speaks their language too: its buttons are in Traditional Chinese, and every translated caption is marked AI 翻譯 · 未經人手校對 (AI translation · not checked by a person). Text grows up to 42 px for older eyes, and on paid plans an AI voice reads the captions aloud in Cantonese, labelled AI 語音.

Without a glossary, AI translation can write God either way. A new church starts with 神, or 天主 when its name says it is Catholic; set it once in Settings or the glossary, as 神, 上帝 or 天主, and every Cantonese caption follows. Starter packs fill the rest in Traditional and Simplified characters: one Protestant pack with 神, one with 上帝, and a Catholic pack with 天主、聖神、彌撒 and the names of the Catholic 思高 Bible (梅瑟、達味、保祿).

When the pastor names a passage and reads it, Cantonese readers see it from the 和合本, the most widely used Bible in Chinese Protestant churches, in Traditional characters, marked 出版譯本 · 非 AI 翻譯 (Published text · not AI). The Cantonese AI voice reads the verse itself.

Your church chooses the edition for each room in Rooms › Languages: the 神 edition, which prints God as 神 with a blank before it as a mark of honour, or the 上帝 edition. Choose the same word in the glossary, and captions and verse cards agree. In our tests, a passage read aloud in Cantonese from the 新標點和合本 still brings up the card. How Scripture lock works.

Lines from the sample service in our demo; the Cantonese line is shown as said, and on a phone every translated caption is labelled AI. The verse is the 和合本 text exactly as Scripture lock shows it.

• Speaker labels (Speaker 1, Speaker 2) aren’t available yet in rooms that include Cantonese.
• We haven’t timed Cantonese rooms yet; they run on their own speech engine.
• Licensed Bibles such as the 新標點和合本 and 和合本修訂版 aren’t shown; verse cards come from the 1919 和合本 text.
• The dashboard your team uses is in English; the listener page is in Traditional Chinese for Cantonese readers.