For churches that worship in more than one language
One sermon. Everyone follows it.
Godbreathed listens as the sermon is preached and carries it, live, into Chinese and Spanish — on the church screen, on phones, in the livestream. A second or two behind the preacher.
Demonstration: a sentence appears in English, then its Chinese and Spanish translations a second or two later, on the church screen and on one person's phone in the language they chose.
A simulation of the screen, and what one person sees on their phone in the language they chose. Translations arrive a breath behind the preacher, as they do live.
I · How it works
Three steps. The preacher changes nothing.
1.
The preacher preaches as usual
Godbreathed plugs into the sound system the church already has. Nothing to buy, nothing to wear, nothing to do differently.
2.
It transcribes and translates on the spot
Tuned for sermons: sentences break at the preacher's pace, Scripture is shown in the Chinese Union Version, and the church gives us the names, places and theological terms its preacher reaches for, and we add them.
3.
Everyone reads their own language
The congregation scans a QR code; nothing to install. The church screen and the livestream carry the subtitles too, and the translation can be spoken aloud for those who find reading hard.
II · Every Sunday, for real
Built in a church. Running in churches.
Godbreathed was built inside a congregation's Sunday, not in a demo room. It has been used at International City Church and Alpha Australia; everything the congregation and the sound desk use on a Sunday has been used in a real service.
What we won't pretend
- Subtitles run a second or two behind the preacher. Human interpreters do too.
- We depend on cloud AI services, and they can stumble. We've built for that where we can, and we'll tell you plainly when something went wrong — but we won't tell you nothing can ever hiccup.
- Chinese and Spanish are tuned for sermons — Scripture, terms, sentence breaks. Other languages can be switched on, but have not had that work yet.
- Translation quality and speed have not been formally benchmarked yet. We'd rather you saw it running in a service.
III · Not just captions on a phone
Phones, the screen and the livestream, together.
A sermon is a room: people reading the screen, people reading their phones, people online. Godbreathed carries the same words to all of them, in step.
Side by side, or all three
Side by side in Chinese and English, or three languages together. Between sermons it shows a welcome screen.
Scan, read, done
Opens in their language; nothing to install. One person switching language doesn't affect the next.
The same words, online
Bilingual subtitles overlaid on the stream, so people at home follow along too.
Read aloud
The translation can be spoken for those who find reading hard. Off by default; on when the church asks.
Reads as whole sentences
Sentences break at the sermon's pace rather than jumping word by word, so an hour-long sermon stays readable.
Scripture, terms, names
Verses appear in the Chinese Union Version automatically. Theological terms come from a glossary; the church gives us its preacher's names and places, and we add them.
Fillers dropped
“You know”, “I mean” and the like are left out of the subtitles.
One page for the sound desk
Start, pause, stop. The sound volunteer needs no technical skill. The preacher's control page requires sign-in with an email the church has approved.
IV · A good fit?
We'd rather tell you now than after you've started.
Godbreathed is for you if…
- The sermon is preached in English while the congregation follows in two or three languages
- You gather weekly, with a screen, a livestream, or both
- Someone at the sound desk can open a web page on a laptop or iPad connected to the sound desk
…and not for you if:
- You need panel discussions or multi-speaker meetings translated — it's built for one voice at a time
V · The arrangement
Pay for what you use. Month by month.
Metered by the minute. One charge per language.
The church tops up in advance; the balance is drawn down as the sermon runs. Languages can be added at any time.
How it's charged
- By the minute the sermon actually runs. Breaks are free.
- One charge per language, explained before it's switched on.
- Top up in advance; see the balance and this month's usage any time.
- A sermon in progress is never cut off for a low balance. It only affects whether the next one can start.
- A statement every month, checked automatically against the system's own usage record.
- Set-up, glossary preparation and training are quoted separately.
Pricing on application.Arrangements can be discussed to suit each church.
How to apply
Write to us with three things:
- Your church
- The languages in the room
- What a normal Sunday looks like
or copy:
We reply to every letter, including when we think we're not the right fit.
We onboard a few churches at a time. Switching a church on is quick; preparing its glossary and training its volunteers is done by hand, and we'd rather do it properly.
VI · The long view
What happens if we disappear?
A fair question to ask of a small company — so here is the honest answer. If we stopped, the service would stop with us — so we've made sure you could leave with everything you've put in. Nothing of your church's is locked inside our system: your glossary and your sermon records are yours, exported whenever you ask (records are kept for 90 days unless we arrange otherwise). The arrangement is month to month — it has to earn its place every Sunday, and the day it stops, you walk away whole.
Each church also runs on its own: adding one disturbs no one else, and a problem at one does not spread to another. We believe infrastructure for the church should be impossible to hold hostage — including by us.