Live sermon translation into a natural English voice and captions, on every listener's own phone, about two seconds behind the pastor. And back the other way, for English sermons.
Try it on your own voice in the browser. Free, no sign‑up.
Captions are free without an account. The live demo runs Korean ⇄ English today.
之道 (the way) and 知道 (to know) sound the same. Shema reads the sermon around it before it picks one.
Korean holds the verb to the end of the sentence. Shema waits for it instead of guessing the meaning early.
Recognition trained on written Chinese misses everyday Cantonese words. We are tuning for how it is actually preached.
Preachers pause mid-sentence. A tool that translates at every pause speaks in pieces. Shema listens until the sentence is whole, then speaks it once.
当我们真正认识神的‖时候,‖我们就不再害怕了。
When we truly come to know God, we are no longer afraid.
Listening for the end of the thought…约翰福音三章十六节
John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son…"
Everything changes in the pews.
Plays through their own phone or your receivers
Same microphone, same sermon. No pausing for an interpreter.
Each sentence is recognized, translated and spoken in a natural English voice in about two seconds.
They scan a QR code and listen on their own phone with earbuds, with captions to read along. No app to install.
No new sound system and no hardware to buy. Shema takes the audio you already send out, and the English comes back on whatever your congregation already listens through.
Pulls straight from the RTMP feed you already stream.
Or a direct feed from the board your team already mixes.
English routes to the earpiece packs you already hand out.
Or a link on their own phone and earbuds. No app store.
Add your church's own words once: ministries, hymns, names. Shema uses them every Sunday.
Shema doesn't replace the pastor's voice. It carries it to everyone in the room.
A human interpreter costs $200–500 a Sunday and covers one language. Tell us about your congregation and we'll set up a live demo service in your pastor's language. No cost, no commitment.
Prefer email? shematranslate@gmail.com
Each new language is tuned to how preaching actually sounds in it. Tell us yours and we'll let you know when it's ready.