VoxLive turns the pulpit mic into 22 live translations. Text captions and translated audio stream to every listener's phone — no receivers to hand out, no apps to install, no volunteer untangling cables.
A volunteer opens the Studio on a laptop. Listeners scan the QR code or open the URL on their phone. Everyone follows the service in the language they speak.
Sign in on any laptop with a mic. Pick your source and target languages. Hit Go Live. That's the setup.
Captions arrive in every language you picked, sentence by sentence. Translated audio goes out alongside. On Pro+, VoxLive also auto-surfaces Bible verses when the speaker cites them.
Listeners scan a QR code on the bulletin, tap their language, plug in earbuds. No install, no account, no receiver to lose under a pew.
Every interaction is one mistake away from a Sunday-morning panic. So we designed around the worst day, not the best.
Every listener's phone shows the sermon as text — in the language they picked — arriving sentence by sentence while the speaker is still speaking.
Not just text. Listeners can plug in earbuds and hear the sermon translated to their language — captions and audio both, at the same time. Pick one or use both.
Speaker says "John chapter three, verse sixteen" — and the passage pops up on every listener's phone, in the Bible translation that matches their language.
Listeners open a URL or scan a QR code. Works on the oldest Android in the back pew and the newest iPhone in the front row. Nothing to hand out, nothing to lose.
Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Tagalog, Ukrainian, Vietnamese. Pick the ones your room actually speaks — up to 4 concurrent on Free and Starter, 6 on Pro, all 22 on Ministry.
Hit your monthly broadcast hours during a sermon? The live service finishes. Only the next broadcast pauses until you upgrade. We don't pull the plug on a prayer.
Four patterns show up again and again. If one of these is your room, VoxLive probably fits.
One sermon, two languages in the room. A human translator speaks into VoxLive — half the pew listens in English, half in Ukrainian — same service, same moment, no side-room required.
Ukrainian, Russian, and Spanish-first congregations whose American-born grandkids follow best in English. Babushka gets the sermon in Ukrainian; her grandson reads along in English — on the same phone, on the same pew.
A Ukrainian grandmother, a Spanish-speaking family, a German-speaking couple, and English-native kids — all in the same service, all following in the language they think in. One translator per channel, all running at once.
Live text captions on every phone in the pew. No hearing loop install, no separate receiver, no waiting for the recording to get uploaded later in the week.
Most churches that need translation already own (or are shopping) assistive-listening transmitters and receivers. Here's the honest comparison.
| Radio transmitter & receivers | VoxLive | |
|---|---|---|
| Transmitter hardware | $500 – $2,000 upfront | $0 — runs on the iPad you already have |
| Listener receivers | $30 – $150 each, to hand out & collect | $0 — every listener uses their own phone |
| Batteries & replacements | Every service, for every unit | None. No drawer full of dead AAs |
| Languages in parallel | One per transmitter channel | Up to 13, all at the same time |
| Captions for deaf / HOH | Requires a separate captioning system | Included on every paid plan |
| Setup each Sunday | Hand out receivers, test channels, collect at the end | Open a URL. Listeners scan the QR code |
| Ongoing cost | $0 after purchase · but add receivers as you grow | Free to start · $29+/mo when your service hours grow |
Price ranges based on published list pricing for common assistive-listening systems (Williams AV, Listen Technologies). Not a knock — just a comparison.
Two broadcast hours a month on the house. Upgrade only when your service hours outgrow it.
