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Church Translation uses advanced AI to bridge communication gaps in real-time. To ensure a seamless experience for your congregation, it is helpful to understand how languages are managed across the three stages of the platform: Dictate mode, Translation, and Audio output.

Written By Dennis Dueck

Last updated 22 days ago

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🎤 Dictate Language (Admin App)

The Dictate Language is the language spoken by the pastor or speaker during the service. The Admin app uses speech-to-text technology to transcribe this audio into the system.

  • Primary Function: Captures the speaker's live audio for processing.

  • Operational Tip: Your dictate languages live under Settings → Speech-to-text settings → Speech-to-text languages. You can select up to ten, so a guest speaker or a bilingual service is a matter of switching between languages you have already set up.

  • Dictation Modes: By default speech-to-text is automatic — sentences are sent during natural pauses in speech. Switch on Manual speech-to-text mode under Settings → Speech-to-text settings and you press Send after each thought instead. Both listen through the microphone; typing the text yourself is Type Mode, and running a script you prepared earlier is Prepared Text.

  • Speech-to-text speed: Choose how long speech recognition waits after a pause before it sends a sentence. Go to Settings → Speech-to-text settings → Speech-to-text speed. Fast gets translations to the phones sooner but may split a long sentence, Accurate keeps whole sentences together, and Balanced (the default) sits in between. A change applies from your next session.

Language

Description

Arabic

Our global Arabic gives high-accuracy transcription across many different accents and dialects including (but not limited to) Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and Arabic spoken in the Gulf, Egypt and the Levant.

Bulgarian

Croatian

Czech

Danish

Dutch

English

Our global English gives high-accuracy transcription across many different accents including (but not limited to) English spoken in the United Kingdom, United States, Australia, New Zealand and non-native speakers.

English (multi)

This model will only translate from English speech, and ignore all other languages if spoken.

This makes it perfect if the english preaching gets simultaneously into other languages on stage.

Estonian

Finnish

French

Our global French gives high-accuracy transcription across many different accents including (but not limited to) French spoken in France, Canada and Belgium.

German

Our global German gives high-accuracy transcription across many different accents including (but not limited to) German spoken in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

German (Switzerland)

This model gives the best accuracy for Swiss German.
However, it does not support AI sentence splitting (as all other languages).

The end of a sentence or thought is detected by a pause. Its length follows Speech-to-text speed under Settings → Speech-to-text settings: choose Accurate if sentences are being cut off mid-thought, Fast if they arrive too slowly.

German (multi)

This model will only translate from German speech, and ignore all other languages if spoken.

This makes it perfect if the german preaching gets simultaneously into other languages on stage.

Greek

Hebrew

Hindi

Hungarian

Italian

Japanese

Korean

Latvian

Lithuanian

Mandarin

Our global Mandarin gives high accuracy transcription across many different accents including (but not limited to) China, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia.

Norwegian

Persian

Polish

Portuguese

Our global Portuguese gives high-accuracy transcription across many different accents including (but not limited to) Portuguese spoken in Portugal and Brazil.

Romanian

Russian

Slovakian

Slovenian

Spanish

Our global Spanish gives high-accuracy transcription across many different accents including (but not limited to) Spanish spoken in Spain, US, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Venezuela, Chile and Peru.

Spanish (multi)

This model will only translate from Spanish speech, and ignore all other languages if spoken.

This makes it perfect if the spanish preaching gets simultaneously into other languages on stage.

Swedish

Tagalog (Filipino)

Turkish

Ukrainian

Any language missing? Please reach out via Live Chat to discuss your needs.

🌎 Translation Languages

Once the source audio is captured, the AI generates written translations. These are the languages your congregants will read as subtitles on their mobile devices.

  • Primary Function: Provides real-time text accessibility for members.

  • Reach: We support over 127 written languages, allowing you to welcome a diverse range of nationalities simultaneously.

  • Notification System: If a member joins and requires a language that is not currently active, a notification will appear in your Admin Translation page.

  • Active and Inactive: A language can be switched off automatically once nobody has listened in it for a while, and switches itself back on the moment a visitor with that language returns. Inactive languages stay on your list, greyed out with the time they were last used. Your speech-to-text language and any language on the projector are never switched off. See Stewardship: Making the Most of Your Resources for how to set this up.

  • Afrikaans

  • Albanian

  • Amharic

  • Arabic

  • Armenian

  • Assamese

  • Azerbaijani

  • Bangla

  • Bashkir

  • Basque

  • Bosnian

  • Bulgarian

  • Cantonese (Traditional)

  • Catalan

  • Chinese (Literary)

  • Chinese Simplified

  • Chinese Traditional

  • Croatian

  • Czech

  • Danish

  • Dari

  • Divehi

  • Dutch

  • English

  • Estonian

  • Faroese

  • Fijian

  • Filipino

  • Finnish

  • French

  • French (Canada)

  • Galician

  • Ganda

  • Georgian

  • German

  • Greek

  • Gujarati

  • Haitian Creole

  • Hausa

  • Hebrew

  • Hindi

  • Hmong Daw

  • Hungarian

  • Icelandic

  • Igbo

  • Indonesian

  • Inuinnaqtun

  • Inuktitut

  • Inuktitut (Latin)

  • Irish

  • Italian

  • Japanese

  • Kannada

  • Kazakh

  • Khmer

  • Kinyarwanda

  • Konkani

  • Korean

  • Kurdish (Central)

  • Kurdish (Northern)

  • Kyrgyz

  • Lao

  • Latvian

  • Lingala

  • Lithuanian

  • Lower Sorbian

  • Macedonian

  • Maithili

  • Malagasy

  • Malay

  • Malayalam

  • Maltese

  • Marathi

  • Mongolian (Cyrillic)

  • Mongolian (Traditional)

  • Myanmar (Burmese)

  • Māori

  • Nepali

  • Norwegian

  • Nyanja

  • Odia

  • Pashto

  • Persian

  • Polish

  • Portuguese (Brazil)

  • Portuguese (Portugal)

  • Punjabi

  • Querétaro Otomi

  • Romanian

  • Rundi

  • Russian

  • Samoan

  • Serbian (Cyrillic)

  • Serbian (Latin)

  • Sesotho

  • Sesotho sa Leboa

  • Setswana

  • Shona

  • Sindhi

  • Sinhala

  • Slovak

  • Slovenian

  • Somali

  • Spanish

  • Swahili

  • Swedish

  • Tahitian

  • Tamil

  • Tatar

  • Telugu

  • Thai

  • Tibetan

  • Tigrinya

  • Tongan

  • Turkish

  • Turkmen

  • Ukrainian

  • Upper Sorbian

  • Urdu

  • Uyghur

  • Uzbek (Latin)

  • Vietnamese

  • Welsh

  • Xhosa

  • Yoruba

  • Yucatec Maya

  • Zulu

Any language missing? Please reach out via Live Chat to discuss your needs.

🎧 Audio Output (Mobile Text-to-Speech)

The Mobile App allows members to listen to the translated service through their headphones. The reading is done by the visitor's own phone, using the text-to-speech voices installed on it — so nothing extra is charged for listening.

  • Primary Function: Supports those who prefer hearing the message in their native tongue.

  • Requirement: Members tap Start Listening on the Translation screen, and Pause to stop. Headphones matter here — without them the phone is heard by everyone nearby.

  • Availability Note: Text translation works for every supported language. Whether it can also be read aloud depends on the voices the visitor's device has for that language. Most common languages are covered out of the box, and better voices can usually be downloaded free from the device's own settings.

  • Afrikaans

  • Albanian

  • Amharic

  • Arabic

  • Armenian

  • Assamese

  • Azerbaijani

  • Bangla

  • Basque

  • Bosnian

  • Bulgarian

  • Cantonese (Traditional)

  • Catalan

  • Chinese Simplified

  • Chinese Traditional

  • Croatian

  • Czech

  • Danish

  • Dutch

  • English

  • Estonian

  • Filipino

  • Finnish

  • French

  • French (Canada)

  • Galician

  • Georgian

  • German

  • Greek

  • Gujarati

  • Hebrew

  • Hindi

  • Hungarian

  • Icelandic

  • Indonesian

  • Inuktitut

  • Inuktitut (Latin)

  • Irish

  • Italian

  • Japanese

  • Kannada

  • Kazakh

  • Khmer

  • Korean

  • Lao

  • Latvian

  • Lithuanian

  • Macedonian

  • Malay

  • Malayalam

  • Maltese

  • Marathi

  • Mongolian (Cyrillic)

  • Myanmar (Burmese)

  • Nepali

  • Norwegian

  • Odia

  • Pashto

  • Persian

  • Polish

  • Portuguese (Brazil)

  • Portuguese (Portugal)

  • Punjabi

  • Romanian

  • Russian

  • Serbian (Cyrillic)

  • Serbian (Latin)

  • Sinhala

  • Slovak

  • Slovenian

  • Somali

  • Spanish

  • Swedish

  • Tamil

  • Telugu

  • Thai

  • Turkish

  • Ukrainian

  • Urdu

  • Uzbek (Latin)

  • Vietnamese

  • Welsh

  • Zulu

Any language missing? Please reach out via Live Chat to discuss your needs.

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