The projector, the lobby TV, the lower third on your livestream — each one a live caption display with its own link and its own language. The room just looks up.
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Phone-based captions have one honest objection, and every church that considers them raises it: not everyone in the pew has a phone out. The saint in her eighties who never carried one. The deaf member who shouldn't have to squint at a five-inch screen to follow the sermon. The guest who is not going to scan a QR code in the middle of a service. The answer isn't to hand those people hardware — it's to put the captions where the room is already looking.
A VoxLive screen is a styled live-caption display with its own public link. You create it in the Studio's Screens tab, give it a name, pick its language, choose how it looks — and paste the link wherever the captions should appear. Because the link is just a web page, it works anywhere a web page works: which is every screen in your building.
Two screens, two links, one service — a fullscreen display for the room and a transparent overlay for the stream.
Each screen renders exactly one language, and you can create as many screens as the building needs. So the main projector carries English while a side screen carries Spanish — two languages over the same pulpit, no switching, no operator. Add a lobby TV in a third language and it's just one more link from the same service. Captions run in 60 languages; the screen's language is a dropdown, not a plan feature.
Instead of rolling captions, any screen can show only the currently detected Bible verse — the reference and the text, projection-style, in that screen's language. When the preacher lands on John 3:16, the screen shows John 3:16.
A screen at the front turns the whole service into something a deaf or hard-of-hearing member can read — the sermon, the prayers, the announcements, live as they're spoken. For many churches this is the first accessibility step that actually happens every single week, because it doesn't depend on a volunteer showing up.
Two honest limits, because you'll want to know them before your members do. These are automatic captions, not a human captioner — an occasional word will come out wrong, and your members will notice when it does. And captions cover the spoken parts of the service, not the singing; we won't pretend otherwise. If your church has a sign-language interpreter, keep them — captions work alongside an interpreter, not instead of one. That's the same posture we take with translation: the people who serve your church keep serving it.
Style changes you save apply the next time the display loads, so you can set everything up ahead of time — and on service day it's just on. The full walkthrough, with OBS settings and styling recipes, is in our field notes: Put live captions on every screen in the building.
Screens don't replace the phone experience — they complete it. Anyone who wants a language the screens don't carry, or wants to hear the sermon spoken aloud in their own language, scans the same QR code the church already shares and picks from 60 languages on their own phone. No app, no account; it works on old Androids and iPhones. When the preacher cites a passage, the verse appears on each phone in that listener's own Bible translation. The screens and the phones ride the same broadcast — set up either one, and the other is already there. The full picture of how that works is on our church translation page.
We run all of this at our own church every Friday and every Sunday — a bilingual Russian/English congregation of about 170–200, two services a week, with the founder on the AV team. The human translation team stayed; as the case study puts it, "VoxLive did not replace the team."
No. A VoxLive screen is a web page, so it runs on anything with a browser: the computer already driving your projector, a smart TV or a streaming stick with a browser, an old laptop behind the lobby TV. There is no caption encoder, no capture card, and nothing to buy. Open the screen's link, press fullscreen, done.
Yes. Each screen renders exactly one language, and you can create as many screens as your building needs — so the main projector can carry English while a side screen carries Spanish and the cry-room TV carries a third language, all from the same service. Captions run in 60 languages; the screen's language is a dropdown, not a plan feature.
Yes. In OBS, add the screen's link as a Browser source, turn on the screen's transparent background, set it to a single line, and size the source to your canvas — 1920x1080 for most streams. That gives you a live caption lower third burned over your livestream, with no plugin. The same link works in vMix or any encoder that renders a browser source. In ProPresenter, add the link as a web page element. And on any machine, you can simply open the link in a browser and press fullscreen.
For captions, yes: everything spoken — sermon, prayer, announcements — appears as live text the whole room can read, in type sized for the back row. Two honest limits. First, these are automatic captions, not a human captioner, so an occasional word will come out wrong. Second, they cover the spoken parts of the service, not the singing. If your church has a sign-language interpreter, keep them — captions work alongside an interpreter, not instead of one.
Screens are included on every plan, including Free — no add-on and no per-screen fee. The Free tier includes 8 hours a month of live audio streaming plus a one-time 2-hour live-captions trial, enough to put a real screen up during a real service. Paid plans are flat: Starter $59, Growth $199, Pro $449, and Scale $789 a month — all-inclusive, no per-language fees, no overage. Or unlock the whole product for one full service with the $5 First Sunday Pass, refunded if it doesn't work in your sanctuary.
Your first screen takes about two minutes, and the cheapest way to know how it reads is your own projector, from your own back row. The First Sunday Pass unlocks the whole product for one full service for $5 — refunded if it doesn't work in your sanctuary.
No caption encoder. No hardware to buy. Works with the screens you already have.
