How Live Church Translation Works
From your sound system to attendee phones, Linguify turns a sermon into live multilingual captions and available translated audio.
The Translation Pipeline
Capture Clean Audio
Route a clean audio feed from your mixing board or audio interface into the Linguify operator dashboard. Dante workflows connect through Dante Virtual Soundcard.
Transcribe Speech in Real Time
Linguify transcribes the speaker in real time across 75+ speech-input languages. Cloud transcription can use custom speech-recognition terms for names, theological terms, and denominational language.
Translate Into Selected Languages
The transcribed text is translated in real time into your selected target languages. Choose from 115+ translation languages and configure up to 5 simultaneous translated-language streams.
Generate Captions or AI-Spoken Audio
Translated text appears as live captions. Where AI voice output is available, it can also become spoken audio using any of 250+ AI voice profiles.
Deliver to Attendees via Browser
Attendees open a simple browser link — no app download required — on their phone, tablet, or laptop. They choose a language and read captions or listen to available translated audio through their own device.
Manage From the Operator Dashboard
Production teams control sessions, active languages, voice profiles, NDI caption output with an alpha channel, scheduling, automation, and multi-campus monitoring from the operator dashboard. In-depth engagement analytics — listening time, language demand, new versus returning listeners, and visit frequency — are available for a single site or combined across campuses.
The Attendee Experience
Attendees follow a simple browser-based workflow with no app to install.
Scan QR Code or Open URL
A QR code displayed on screen or a short link in the bulletin takes attendees straight to their language stream in any browser.
Choose a Language
The listener page — available in 30+ interface languages — lets attendees pick their preferred language from the active streams.
Read Captions or Listen
Attendees read live translated captions on screen or, where voice output is available, tap play to hear translated audio through their phone speaker or earbuds.
The Production Team Experience
Operators manage core translation and production controls from the operator dashboard.
Connect Audio
Route a clean feed from your mixing board, Dante Virtual Soundcard, or another audio device into Linguify. Device status and audio levels are visible to operators.
Configure Languages & Voices
Select target languages, assign available AI voice profiles or route an interpreter microphone, set caption styling, and configure NDI output for broadcast software.
Start the Service
Launch translation manually or schedule service startup. Monitor audio levels, caption output, listener counts, and language streams in real time.
Multi-Campus Administration
A centralized view brings status, analytics, and service controls together for connected campuses.
Central Dashboard
Enrolled campuses appear in the Global Overview. New sites can self-enroll for approval, with optional auto-approval.
Live Monitoring
See real-time status, audio levels, active language streams, and listener counts for every campus. Identify issues before they become problems.
Combined Analytics
Engagement data and follow-up queues can be viewed across configured sites for organization-wide visibility.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Linguify processes speech, transcription, translation, and delivery in real time during the service. End-to-end, translated audio can reach a listener's phone in as little as about six seconds after the words are spoken, depending on how quickly the speaker talks, network conditions, and configuration. Captions typically appear sooner than spoken audio.
- No. Attendees open a browser link on any device — phone, tablet, or laptop — to read captions or listen to available translated audio. No app download is needed.
- Yes. A human interpreter can speak through Linguify to attendees' phones instead of using receiver packs. AI translation can serve as a fallback when the interpreter is unavailable.
- Linguify can generate AI sermon summaries, outlines, and study guides after a service. Optional engagement analytics and guest follow-up workflows are also available.
- Linguify sends NDI captions to ProPresenter, OBS, vMix, and Wirecast. Control workflows can use Stream Deck, Bitfocus Companion, or QLab; Dante routing uses Dante Virtual Soundcard; Resi can be used alongside Linguify; and SDI output is available on supported hardware.
See It In Action
Request a discovery call and walk through the full translation workflow with our team.