Romanian letters (ă, â, î, ș, ț) are kept in the Romanian transcript and in downloaded transcripts.
Livefy
ROMANIAN → ENGLISH
Romanian to English translation for your church, live.
Your priest or pastor speaks Romanian. English appears in real time, as live captions on the screen and on every phone, and anyone can listen to a translated voice instead.
EXAMPLE · EN
Fiindcă atât de mult a iubit Dumnezeu lumea, încât a dat pe singurul Lui Fiu.
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For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son.
Ioan 3:16
WHO IT'S FOR
Romanian-speaking pulpit, English-reading audience.
Romanian churches across the US, Canada and the UK: anywhere the pastor preaches in Romanian and part of the congregation reads English. Pastors and church boards who would rather read in Romanian: Livefy pentru bisericile românești.
WHAT TO EXPECT
Romanian to English, in practice.
Run one of your own services through it during the free hours. Here is what to look for.
Church words (Domnul, Duhul Sfânt, Evanghelia) come out in their usual English forms: the Lord, the Holy Spirit, the Gospel.
Set the speaker language to Romanian.
ROMANIAN CHURCHES
The sermon in Romanian, the family in two languages.
In many Romanian churches in the US, Canada and the UK the sermon stays in Romanian, while the children who grew up there, and the husbands and wives who married into the church, follow English better. English captions on the screen let them stay in the same service rather than leave for a separate English one.
Visitors and neighbors can follow on their phones too, through the code at the door, with nothing to install.
PRICING
What it costs.
Every week
The Church plan: 10 translation hours a month, for $45 a month, or $468 a year ($39 a month). About 3 services a week with English captions, counting 45 minutes of translation each.
A single event
5 hours for $40, no plan needed. Hours you buy never expire. Event pricing
ROMANIAN → ENGLISH FAQ
Common questions
Will Livefy handle Romanian diacritics correctly?
Yes. ă, â, î, ș and ț are kept in the Romanian transcript, and downloaded transcripts keep them exactly.
What happens if the pastor switches to English mid-sermon?
Keep the speaker language on Romanian. Livefy still hears the English parts, because the setting tells it which language to expect, not which to ignore, and they stay in English on the captions, tidied like the rest (fillers such as "um" and false starts are dropped). Try a mixed sermon on your free hours first.
Can we caption both Romanian (for the source language) and English (for translation) at the same time?
You can show the Romanian transcript and the English translation in two separate windows. On the main projector, the English alone is usually easier to read, because two columns of text on one screen are hard to read at a distance.
How accurate is Romanian-to-English?
Like any live translation, it makes mistakes, most often with names, uncommon words and unclear sound. The fairest test is a whole service with your own priest or pastor.
FREE TRIAL
Try it on this Sunday’s service.
First 4 hours free, about 5 Sunday services in one language. No credit card.