Question 1

How does Sanalive.ai work in practice?

Accepted Answer

Sanalive.ai translates and captions speech in real time with AI. The speaker’s audio is routed from the venue sound system into Sanalive through a browser. Congregants or guests scan a QR code shown in the room, choose their language, and can immediately read the speech as captions or listen with their own headphones.

Question 2

Do congregants need to install a separate app?

Accepted Answer

No. Sanalive works directly in any smartphone or device browser (iOS and Android). That lowers the barrier especially for first-timers and guests: scanning the QR code is enough.

Question 3

How is Sanalive.ai different from everyday tools like Google Translate?

Accepted Answer

General translation tools are built for everyday conversation and often stumble on religious vocabulary, Bible verses, and church terms. Sanalive is tuned for spiritual context (words like grace, righteousness, baptism, and communion, plus Bible books and personal names), which helps keep teaching accurate and natural.

Question 4

How large is the delay between speech and translation?

Accepted Answer

Caption translation appears on screen near real time, usually within about 1–2 seconds of speech. Spoken audio starts forming as soon as a sentence completes, or in long sentences even before the sentence is finished. Without Flash interpretation, captions add about 1s of extra delay and audio about 2–5s, depending on sentence length.

Question 5

How does interpretation adapt to the speaker’s style?

Accepted Answer

Speakers vary widely, so Sanalive is built to adapt by listening to pace and pauses. Fast speech can be interpreted in half-sentences, while a measured story and poetic phrasing get room to breathe. It also works for speakers who preach in a second language. The operator can set the interpretation pace manually or let the system handle it.

Question 6

What hardware and tech does the venue need?

Accepted Answer

You only need three basics:
• A computer with a modern web browser (such as Chrome).
• A stable internet connection.
• An audio feed from the hall mixer to the computer (for example a USB audio interface, the mixer’s USB output, or a Dante network connection).

Audio can also be taken directly from a laptop or phone microphone, but interpretation quality may be lower because other room sounds can be picked up too.

Question 7

Does the service help hard-of-hearing congregants?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Sanalive can also caption the spoken language in real time (speech-to-text without translation). People who are hard of hearing or who do not know sign language can follow the message as text on their own screen.

Question 8

Is there a limit on the number of listeners?

Accepted Answer

The service scales: the same stream can serve a handful of guests or a hall of several hundred people, without a per-listener surcharge.

Question 9

Can we try Sanalive for free before buying?

Accepted Answer

Yes. When you create an account, the 14-day trial starts right away: 2 hours of live translation and 2 hours of Flash voice in up to two languages. No card. Subscribe when you want to keep it for the next Sunday.

Question 10

How is data security handled?

Accepted Answer

Sanalive is built for the GDPR. Speech recognition, translation, cloud voice, the application, and the database run in the European Economic Area. We do not keep a recording of the original sermon. We do keep the transcript and translation so your church can read and copy them. That content is not used to train general language models, and our providers are not allowed to train on it either.

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The same sermon, in everyone’s language.

Designed for international congregations.

Almost as fast as a human interpreter

The church’s own vocabulary

Matches the preacher’s pace

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Unlimited listeners

100+ languages, your language as the source

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