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Live Korean Translation for Church Services
How to provide real-time Korean translation for church services — live captions and spoken translation with no interpreter booth, no headsets, and no app for the audience.
Why Korean translation matters for church services
Over 1 million people in the United States speak Korean at home, with major communities in Los Angeles, New York, and Atlanta — and many churches and community organizations operate bilingually. Korean (한국어) is spoken by about 80 million people worldwide.
Multilingual congregations are the norm, not the exception. When part of your congregation worships in another language, live translation means one shared service instead of separate services divided by language — visitors, elders, and new families all follow the same sermon together.
Korean uses honorific registers that shift with formality. Live translation preserves the meaning while listeners follow along in their preferred language.
How to set it up
- Start a broadcast room before the service. From Interpret AI, create a broadcast room. You get a link and a QR code — print the QR code in the bulletin or show it on screen before worship begins.
- Congregants join on their own phones. Attendees scan the code, pick their language, and see live translated captions of the sermon on their own screen. No app installation, no equipment, no interpreter booth.
- Speak naturally from the pulpit. The preacher speaks normally into the existing sound system or a phone. Transcription and translation happen live, and each listener reads in the language they chose.
- Save the transcript. After the service, the full transcript is saved — useful for sermon notes, follow-up devotionals, or sharing with members who could not attend.
Try it in the next five minutes: the free plan includes credits that renew every month — enough to run a real service in Korean today.
Start translating free →Frequently asked questions
How does live Korean translation work for church services?
Interpret AI listens to the speaker, transcribes the speech in real time, and displays live translated captions in Korean (and any other languages listeners choose). Translation appears within seconds of the words being spoken.
Do congregants need to install an app?
No. Listeners open a link or scan a QR code in their phone browser and captions appear immediately.
Does it work with our existing sound system?
Yes — run Interpret AI on any laptop or phone that can hear the service, either through a microphone or an audio feed from your soundboard.
Which Korean variants are supported?
Korean uses honorific registers that shift with formality. Live translation preserves the meaning while listeners follow along in their preferred language.
How much does it cost?
Interpret AI has a free plan with monthly credits that renew automatically, and paid plans for regular use. Compared with professional interpretation at $45–150 per hour, a month of Interpret AI costs less than a single interpreted hour.
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