One sermon, every language in the room
Caption the service live on the sanctuary screen — and let every member read along on their own phone, each in the language they choose, with nothing to install.
Hola a todos, gracias por acompañarnos hoy.
Hello everyone, thank you for joining us today.
Hola a todos, gracias por acompañarnos hoy.
Hello everyone, thank you for joining us today.
Newey AI transcribes and translates the preacher about a second behind the spoken word. Send large captions to the sanctuary screen with stage mode, or turn on audience broadcast and put up a QR code — everyone who scans it follows the live captions on their own phone, in the language they pick, with no app and no sign-in. There are no headsets to hand out and no booth to staff: one browser at the sound desk runs the whole service, and the same setup carries over to next week.
When to use it
- Bilingual and multilingual congregations sharing one Sunday service
- International and migrant ministries where members read in several languages
- Guest preachers and mission reports delivered in another language
- Weddings, funerals, and special services with international guests
Set up once, reuse every week
A few minutes of preparation keeps paying off, service after service.
Build a church glossary
Biblical names and places, doctrinal terms, your worship songs' titles — add them once in source=translation form and the exact wording you chose comes back every time. The active set is injected automatically at the start of every session, so the same list keeps working week after week.
Check the pulpit mic feed
If your mixer feeds the computer, pick that input (your audio interface) as the microphone device under advanced settings. Clean audio from the pulpit mic is what recognition quality is made of.
Run one rehearsal with a volunteer
Have whoever runs the sound desk speak a verse or two at sermon pace, then settle font size, line count, and caption position. After one rehearsal, starting the captions is a routine any volunteer can own.
On Sunday
Start a caption session
Pick Caption mode in the console, pin the input language to the preacher's language, and choose every translation language your congregation needs — billing counts only the time captions are on, never the number of languages.
Send stage mode to the sanctuary screen
Stage mode puts a large translation over a black backdrop with the source kept small — legible from the back pew. It relies only on the browser's fullscreen capability, so it runs on whatever computer the projection team already uses.
Turn on Share with audience
Press [Share with audience] to get a QR code and link. You can arm it before the service starts — early scanners see a 'starting soon' screen, and the captions start streaming the moment you do.
Members scan and pick their language
Show the QR code on the screen or in the slides. Each phone picks its own language from the ones you enabled — no app, no account, nothing to configure.
Run it from the sound desk
Space pauses, Shift+Space stops, and font size or line count changes apply instantly while live. [Issue new code] cuts off the old link at any time.
Details & tips
Hymns and liturgy in the glossary
Song titles, liturgical responses, and recurring announcements read best when you pin them — one line each, rendered the same way every week.
Sentence display mode
On the sanctuary screen, the calm Sentence mode reads best. Prefer a live, flowing feel? Use Streaming mode.
Keep the sermon transcript
Outside private sessions the transcript is kept in Session history — reopen it for the newsletter or small-group notes, and export it as TXT/SRT.
Overflow room and lobby screens
Open another caption window per language from the preview card and place one on each screen — the price stays the same however many you open.
Limits & requirements
- Sharing is off by default — captions go out only while audience broadcast is turned on, and the caption text passes through our server for delivery only, never stored there.
- Viewers' phones need an internet connection, and each phone can only pick from the languages you enabled for the session.
- The active glossary set is injected at session start — mid-service edits apply from the next session.
- Letting the congregation know the service is transcribed and shared is the church's responsibility.
Whatever you watch, whoever you talk to
Let the captions handle the language. One account, three seconds to start.