Real-time sermon translation, in 38+ languages, on every phone in the sanctuary.
A Mac at the front of house captures the pastor's audio. Our cloud streams it through OpenAI's realtime translation models in parallel for every language your congregation needs. Captions and AI-generated audio land on listeners' phones in roughly 600 milliseconds.
The problem
Most multilingual churches rely on a volunteer in a back room, a headset, and a prayer that nobody mishears. It doesn't scale past one or two languages, the quality varies wildly from week to week, and growth in any new language community puts the whole system under strain.
How ChurchTranslator.AI solves it
The capture app on your Mac taps system audio — straight from your mixer, SoundGrid, or even the built-in inputs — and streams it to our cloud service. We pass voice through a speech gate that drops music and silence, then translate in parallel for every language you've enabled. Listeners scan a QR code, pick their language from a 38-option menu in native script, and hear or read the sermon live.
~600 ms p50 latency
Sub-second from spoken word to caption on a listener's screen.
38+ languages
From Spanish and Russian to Tagalog, Amharic, and Mandarin — natively labeled.
Captions + audio
Listeners read along, listen through earbuds, or both — their choice, per device.
Smart auto-scroll
Doesn't fight listeners who scroll back to re-read a sentence.
Upgraded Voice
Optional add-on for a consistent, natural voice across the entire service.
Multi-tenant SaaS
Each church gets a branded subdomain at your-slug.churchtranslator.ai.
What you need to run it
- A Mac at front-of-house (we sign and notarize the capture app; it auto-updates)
- A way to feed it the sermon audio (mixer output, SoundGrid, USB interface, or even built-in mic for very small rooms)
- Decent in-room Wi-Fi for listeners
- That's it. Listeners need no app — just a phone camera and a QR code.
Pricing, plainly
Pay-As-You-Grow. $99/mo plus $0.10 per translated minute, plus $9.99/mo per additional language. Best for churches whose service times vary or whose multilingual usage is still ramping up.
Hosted (flat-rate). $199/mo with 20 hours of translation per language per month included, $9.99/hr after that, plus $69/mo per additional language. Best for churches with steady, high-volume multilingual demand.
You can switch between plans in one click from your dashboard — Stripe prorates the change automatically. The Upgraded Voice add-on (consistent natural voice through gpt-realtime-2) is +$99/mo on Hosted or +$0.30/min on PAYG while active.
Who's using it
Currently live at Woodmark Church and a growing list of pilot tenants. We're rolling out new churches every week — book a call and we'll show you a live service.