Translate
Live today
People choose their language and follow live captions — or listen where translated audio is available — on their own phone. Same room. Same service. No app to install.
What it is
Lingual captures the spoken service and delivers translated captions to attendees in their chosen language. Captions can end partway through a sentence; timing varies with speech, audio quality, and the connection. Translation for a language starts when an attendee chooses it, inside the same service everyone else is attending.
Every language in the live catalog is Bible-backed: text captions plus at least one published Bible translation. Browse the live language catalog to check caption, audio, source-language and Bible coverage for the languages in your neighborhood.
“With Lingual, we offer translation through the whole service, and everyone reads Scripture from a real Bible in their own language. It’s also helped our congregation be more missional: people can now invite friends and family who struggle with an all-English service.”
Resurrection Church Tacoma
Why it matters
A family should be able to worship together even when its members follow best in different languages. Translate helps guests and longtime members stay in the same room and follow the same sermon, prayers, and Scripture as the people beside them. Your team can check the languages your congregation needs before Sunday.
The boundary we keep
The pastor's words are translated live. Scripture is not. When a passage is cited, Lingual shows a published, human-translated Bible edition for that language, clearly named — or a clearly labeled published fallback. Machine translation is never presented as Scripture.
A closer look
A real view of the attendee page in Spanish, with the original English words shown. Here is what each part means.
Captions and Scripture come in the guest’s language. Buttons and labels are written in 22 languages so far, English included; elsewhere they appear in English.
Each line is translated as the preacher speaks. A line can appear lighter at first and settle as the words are confirmed. Captions can end partway through a sentence.
With Originals (文A) turned on, the words as spoken appear in italics with each translation. It is on by default in the order of worship and off on the full-screen captions page.
This passage comes from the Nueva Versión Internacional, a published Spanish Bible, named on the card with its notice. Machine translation is never presented as Scripture.
Where a translated voice exists, a guest can listen through the phone speaker or earbuds. If audio is not available, the captions keep going.
Joining
Your church shares its QR code or Lingual service link.
A guest opens it in a phone browser and chooses an available language. There is no app to install.
The guest follows live captions. With a Planning Center service plan connected, prepared service content is also available through the bulletin. A supported listening option can be selected where offered. Scripture shown in the Bible pane keeps its published edition identified, alongside the live spoken message.
No app-store visit, dedicated receiver, or attendee account is required.
Captions and Scripture
The spoken message is translated live. Bible passages are handled differently: when a recognized passage is displayed, its text comes from a named, published human translation.
Dios no les pidió que dejaran su idioma en la puerta. Los encontró en él.
God did not ask them to leave their language at the door. He met them in it.
Real translation from the Spanish capture above
Translated live by Lingual
The sermon, prayers, and announcements, translated as they are spoken. Guests can show the original words with Originals (文A).
Pasaje bíblico · Hechos 2:6 (NVI-S)
Al oír aquel bullicio, muchos corrieron al lugar y quedaron todos pasmados porque cada uno los escuchaba hablar en su propio idioma.
Santa Biblia, Nueva Versión Internacional® NVI® | © 1999, 2015, 2022 por Biblica, Inc.® Usado con permiso. Reservados todos los derechos en todo el mundo.
Published Bible, named on screen
Passages come from a published edition in the guest’s language, named on the card. Your church chooses the edition for each language.
Machine translation is never presented as Scripture. When the preacher reads a verse aloud, the caption shows what was said, translated; when the reference is named, the published passage appears too. If the guest’s Bible lacks the passage or can’t be reached, Lingual shows a labeled passage from a published fallback edition and says why.
The language catalog
Check these separately in the live language catalog. A supported reading language does not automatically establish every other kind of coverage.
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The language the operator selects for the speaker. It needs a supported source-speech route.
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The language an attendee chooses for reading the live message.
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A listening option where a supported voice is available. Captions remain the core path and do not wait for audio generation.
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The published editions available for the selected language, with their names and any fallback identified.
Counts load from the live language catalog. If they are unavailable here, browse the catalog to check coverage.
Search the Bible-backed Lingual catalog. Every listed language has text captions and at least one published Bible translation.
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Translate in the Storehouse
Under the Storehouse governance proposal, teaching carried into another language for lasting use would receive human review before sharing. Scripture would keep its published human source. Transcribe captures the service; Transform explores how reviewed teaching could serve the week.
Questions churches ask
The live catalog is the source of truth — browse it at lingual.services/
Yes, when that language has a supported live source-speech route. The operator declares the spoken language for the service, and attendees choose their own reading language.
No. Scripture uses published human Bible text or a labeled human-Bible fallback. Live machine translation carries the pastor's surrounding words only.
Text keeps moving. Captions are the core path and never wait for audio; listening is an additional choice where a translated voice exists.
Start with one Sunday
Confirm the source language, the attendee languages that matter now, and available translated voices before Sunday.
