Real-time sermon translation for your church — live captions and spoken translation on every listener's own phone, from one pulpit mic. No hardware, no app, no booth.
Free tier: 8 hours of live audio a month, no credit card. Prefer to see it first? Book a walkthrough.
VoxLive is live sermon translation built for churches. One feed of your service audio in — a mic, a laptop at the sound board, or the livestream you already send to YouTube — and your congregation follows the service in their own language, on the phones already in their pockets. Some read. Some listen. Nobody sits through a sermon they can't understand.
It is the whole translation setup: no transmitters to maintain, no receivers to hand out and chase down, no interpretation booth to build. The room's own phones do the receiving. If you want the wider picture — languages, occasions, what changes for a funeral versus a conference — the church translation hub maps all of it.
Captions alone leave a lot of people behind — the grandmother who reads her own language slowly, the visitor whose eyes should be on the preacher, anyone who came to church to listen. So VoxLive does both, at the same time, and every listener chooses for themselves.
A natural voice carries the sermon in the listener's own language, seconds behind the preacher. Earbuds in, phone in a pocket, eyes on the pulpit. This is the part that makes a grandmother stop leaning over to ask what was said.
Text streams in the listener's language as the speaker talks — for deaf and hard-of-hearing members, for the back row straining to hear, for anyone who would rather read. Same link, same phone, same service.
Both run at once, in 60 languages, from the same audio feed. Each listener switches between them whenever they like.
When the preacher says "turn with me to Romans 8," something happens on every phone that no general-purpose translation tool does: the verse itself appears, in that listener's own Bible translation. A Spanish reader sees the wording of the Reina-Valera 1960 — not a machine's paraphrase of it, the actual text their own Bible uses. For someone following a sermon in a second language, the Scripture is the part that has to land word-perfect, and it does.
The preacher cites the passage once, from the pulpit, in the language they preach in. Each listener's phone renders it in the Bible translation for their own language — automatically, on every plan including Free.
If your church already has interpreters, keep them — this matters enough that we built for it. VoxLive carries your interpreter's live voice to every phone on their language channel, and AI covers the languages nobody on your team speaks. Your interpreter's voice rides free and unmetered — it never consumes one of the AI spoken-language slots your plan pays for. The person your congregation trusts keeps serving; the software hands them a bigger room. The human interpreter page covers how churches run the two side by side.
"VoxLive did not replace the team."
VoxLive isn't demoed from a conference stage. The people who build it run it at their own home church — Solid Foundation in Texas, a bilingual Russian/English congregation — every Friday and every Sunday. The person who writes the software also runs the church's AV team, which means every feature lands on a live service, in a real sanctuary, before any other church sees it.
Phones aren't the only way in. Every plan includes Screens — styled live-caption displays, each with its own link, each in its own language:
Hiring interpretation out runs $50–150 an hour per language. Two languages across four services a month is $400–1,200, every month — and that only covers the languages you can find someone for. VoxLive's plans are flat and all-inclusive: no per-language fees, no overage, no surprise bills. And the interpreter you already trust still rides free.
Annual billing: two months free. Free tier: 8 hours of live audio streaming a month, plus a one-time 2-hour trial of live captions.
Full plan detail — spoken-language counts, screens, everything — is on the pricing page. And before any of it, there is the $5 First Sunday: one payment, the full product for one real service, refunded if it doesn't work in your sanctuary.
Live translation covers the spoken parts of a service — the sermon, prayer, announcements, a testimony. It does not translate sung worship, and we won't pretend otherwise: music has melody and poetry that live translation can't carry, and a tool that claims to translate singing is overselling. In practice that's the split churches need — the singing carries itself across languages the way it always has. The preaching is what people were missing.
Most churches are live in about ten minutes the first time: connect a laptop or tablet to the sound board (or set a phone near the pulpit), pick your languages, and put the QR code on the screen. After the first week it becomes a two-minute routine — and if you connect your existing livestream instead, translation starts by itself whenever your stream goes live.
No. They scan a QR code or open a link and the service is right there in the browser — no app, no account, no receiver to hand out. It works on old Androids and iPhones, and each person picks their own language.
60 languages, for both live captions and spoken translation. Different listeners follow in different languages at the same time from the same service — one person reading Spanish while the person next to them listens in Russian.
Yes. Add VoxLive as one more destination in your encoder — the same way you added YouTube or Facebook — and captions and translation start when your stream comes up and stop when it ends. Nothing about your current stream changes.
Plans are flat and all-inclusive: Free at $0, Starter $59, Growth $199, Pro $449, and Scale $789 a month — no per-language fees, no overage, no surprise bills. The Free tier includes 8 hours of live audio streaming a month plus a one-time 2-hour trial of live captions, and the $5 First Sunday Pass unlocks the full product for one real service, refunded if it doesn't work in your sanctuary.
The way to know is not another page — it is your sanctuary, your sound board, and your congregation's phones. The First Sunday Pass unlocks the whole product for one full service for $5, refunded if it doesn't work in your sanctuary.
No app to install. No receivers to buy. Works alongside your existing livestream.
