Keep your interpreters. Reach every language.

The interpreter app that is for your interpreters.

Search for a human interpreter app for church and most of what comes back is software built to automate the person in your booth out of the room. If your church has a translation team — the volunteer who has interpreted your pastor for fifteen years, the missionary kid who grew up in both languages — that pitch lands wrong, because it should.

VoxLive starts from the opposite premise. Your interpreters already know the pastor's cadence, the congregation's names, the weight of a funeral announcement. Their skill was never the bottleneck. The bottleneck was the headset bin: their voice only reached the people holding a receiver. You don't replace your translation team; you give them reach.

Human where it matters, AI for the rest — in the same service.

Every language in the broadcast is a channel a listener can pick. Staff the channels you have people for; AI carries the ones you don't. A service might look like this:

Illustrative mix — any of the 60 languages can sit in any row.

Nobody on your team speaks Ukrainian? That channel still runs, every week, without asking anyone to learn it. And when your Spanish interpreter is out sick or traveling, AI holds that channel for a week until they're back. The team stays the plan; AI is the depth chart.

A phone or a laptop. No booth.

Nothing about the craft changes. Your interpreter does exactly what they have always done — the only thing that changes is where their voice can go.

What listeners actually get.

One QR code on the screen or in the bulletin. Each person scans it — no app, no account, and it works on old Androids and iPhones — picks their language, and chooses how to follow: listen, read, or both.

• Grandparents hear the sermon in Russian. The American-born grandkids read it in English. Same pew, same moment, same service.
• The human channel carries a human. Listeners on your interpreter's language hear their voice — the person the congregation already knows — not a synthetic one.
• Bible verses appear on each phone in the listener's own Bible translation the moment the preacher cites a passage, on every plan.
• Everything is also written out as live captions — for deaf and hard-of-hearing members, the back row, and anyone at home with the sound off.
• Captions can go on screens too: every plan includes styled caption displays, each with its own link — an OBS lower-third over your livestream, ProPresenter, a lobby TV, the projector — each screen in its own language.

This is the same setup behind every page in our church-translation library — the interpreter channel is what this page adds on top.

Your interpreter's voice rides free.

Stated plainly: carrying a human interpreter's live voice is free and unmetered on every plan, and it never counts against a spoken-language slot. What the paid tiers meter is AI-voiced languages — the work software does, not the work your people do.

For scale: hiring interpretation runs $50–150 an hour per language — two languages across four services a month is $400–1,200. Your volunteers already give the church that value for free. The software that carries them shouldn't charge you for it, so it doesn't. Plans are flat and published — Free, then Starter $59, Growth $199, Pro $449, and Scale $789 a month, all-inclusive, with no per-language fees and no overage.

The church we run it in kept its team.

We run VoxLive at our own church every Friday and Sunday — Solid Foundation Texas, a bilingual Russian/English congregation of about 170–200 on a Sunday, two services a week. The founder runs its AV team, so this is the room where every feature earns its keep before any other church sees it.

The division of labor there is the whole argument of this page in miniature. The first sermon of a service usually has a translator on stage with the preacher. For the rest, the translation team works from the booth while VoxLive carries their voice to every phone in the room — and AI covers the languages nobody on the team speaks.

What a human still does better than AI.

If a vendor tells you AI has made human interpreters obsolete, walk away slowly. Here is the honest ledger, from a team that builds the AI and sits next to the humans every week:

One limit that applies to both columns: live translation covers the spoken parts of the service — sermon, prayer, announcements. Nobody should promise you translated worship singing, and we don't. And because we'd rather you compare than take our word, we publish side-by-side comparisons with every price cited from the vendor's own page — including VoxLive vs. OneAccord, which covers how each tool treats human interpreters.

If you're still deciding.

The questions coordinators actually ask.