One Swahili caption stream can hold Kenyan, Tanzanian, and Congolese families at once — the language they share, on the phones they already carry.
Or start free — 8 broadcast hours a month, no credit card.
The weekly service is the workload the whole product is built around — a repeating rhythm where the same two or three languages come back every Sunday. The number that matters here is the cost per month over a year, not the price of a one-off event.
Swahili is East Africa's lingua franca, and it does the same quiet work in the diaspora: one Swahili service can hold Kenyan, Tanzanian, and Congolese families at once, because Swahili is the language they share even when their home languages differ. East African congregations — including the large Congolese communities resettled across the US and Canada in recent years — now gather in most major North American cities.
Swahili is written in the Latin alphabet, so the caption challenge is not the script — it is the switching: East African preaching moves fluidly between Swahili and English, and captions have to follow that movement without losing the thread of either language.
The Swahili Union Version (SUV) is the classic Protestant Swahili Bible of East Africa — the translation generations of Kenyan and Tanzanian believers grew up hearing and memorizing. The Bible Societies' meaning-based Biblia Habari Njema (1996) sits alongside it, but the Union Version remains the pulpit reference.
Connect a laptop or tablet to your sound board and open the VoxLive studio in a browser. Pick Swahili as a listener language and click Go Live. Everyone who needs it opens one link on their own phone and reads live Swahili captions — or listens to translated audio in their earbuds — as the speaker talks. There is no app to install and no receiver to hand out.
The Swahili Union Version (SUV) is the classic Protestant Swahili Bible of East Africa — the translation generations of Kenyan and Tanzanian believers grew up hearing and memorizing. The Bible Societies' meaning-based Biblia Habari Njema (1996) sits alongside it, but the Union Version remains the pulpit reference. When the speaker references a passage, VoxLive detects it and renders that verse on every Swahili listener's screen in Swahili Union Version (SUV) — automatically, on every plan including Free.
No. They open a link the church shares (or scan a QR code) and choose Swahili on their own phone or tablet. No app, no account, no receiver, no hardware. Captions render in the Latin alphabet they already read.
Yes — this is one of the things that makes VoxLive different. If your church already has a volunteer or missionary interpreter, VoxLive can carry their live voice to every phone and let AI cover only the languages they can't. Interpreter mode is available now; you are not forced to replace the person you already trust.
You can run a real service on the Free tier (8 broadcast hours a month, no credit card) or unlock the full product for one service with the $5 First Sunday Pass. Ongoing plans are flat and published: Starter $59, Growth $199, Pro $449, and Scale $789 a month — no per-language add-ons and no overage charges.
The cheapest way to know is not another page — it is your own room. The First Sunday Pass unlocks the whole product for one full service for $5. If it doesn't work in your sanctuary, the $5 comes back.
No app to install. No receivers to buy. Works alongside your existing livestream.
