Spanish is one language to the speech recognition, whatever the accent: there is no regional setting to choose, and a preacher from Mexico, Puerto Rico, Colombia or Spain uses the same settings. Test it with your own priest or pastor.
Livefy
SPANISH → ENGLISH
Spanish to English translation for your church, live.
Your priest or pastor speaks Spanish. 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
Porque de tal manera amó Dios al mundo, que ha dado a su Hijo unigénito.
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For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son.
Juan 3:16
CATHOLIC PARISHES
A Spanish Mass the whole family can follow.
In a survey published in 2024, answered by every Latin Catholic diocese in the US, the dioceses reported 16,279 parishes: 4,479 with a Sunday Mass in Spanish, and 2,760 more with a Hispanic presence or ministry but no Mass in Spanish. Captions let one Mass reach the whole family: English on the screen or on phones at the Spanish Mass, and Spanish at the English Mass for the parishioners who pray in Spanish.
No projector is needed: a laptop or desktop computer takes the sound, and people scan a code printed on a sheet at the door and read the homily on their own phones. Anyone who would rather listen can hear the translation read aloud. The page for parishes covers the Mass in more detail.
Source: USCCB Subcommittee on Hispanic Affairs, diocesan survey, 2024.
WHO IT'S FOR
Spanish-speaking pulpit, English-reading audience.
Hispanic churches and Catholic parishes where the preaching is in Spanish and part of the family now follows English better: the children and grandchildren of the people who founded the congregation, a spouse who never learned Spanish, visitors from the English service down the hall.
WHAT TO EXPECT
Spanish to English, in practice.
Run one of your own services through it during the free hours. Here is what to look for.
Set the speaker language to Spanish.
Church words such as Dios, Jesús, el Espíritu Santo and la salvación come out in their usual English forms: God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, salvation.
THE GENERATIONS
The grandparents pray in Spanish. Many grandchildren worship in English.
Among US-born Hispanic churchgoers, 48% of the second generation said most or all of the services they went to in the past year were in Spanish, against 17% of the third generation, and 44% of the third generation said every service was in English (Pew Research Center, surveyed in 2013). The language changes from one generation to the next.
Captions let one service carry both: the homily or sermon in Spanish for the people who built the church, and English for the ones who will keep it going, without splitting into two rooms.
BILINGUAL SERVICES
One service, two languages.
When the priest or pastor moves between Spanish and English, set the speaker language to the one used most; Livefy still hears the other. If yours switches back and forth, try a few minutes of it first.
Add Spanish and English as caption languages, one for each group of readers. Each caption language uses its own hours, so an hour with both uses two.
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
SPANISH → ENGLISH FAQ
Common questions
Does Livefy work for every Spanish accent?
It recognizes Spanish as one language, so there is nothing to set per country. The fairest test is a whole service with your own priest or pastor.
Can English-speaking visitors get captions on their phones while everyone else hears the homily in Spanish?
Yes. Visitors scan the QR code on the sheet at the door, or open the church's phone link, and read the English translation on their own phones as the homily or sermon is given in Spanish. No app to install and no church Wi-Fi needed: it works on the phone's own connection.
What about Spanglish, when the priest or pastor mixes Spanish and English?
Set the speaker language to Spanish. Livefy still hears the English words and sentences, because the setting tells it which language to expect, not which to ignore, and the captions come out in English either way. Try a mixed sermon on your free hours first.
Can we caption the songs too?
You can, but singing is much harder for speech recognition than speaking. Press Pause when the song starts and Resume when the preaching comes back: while paused nothing is captioned, and phones and screens stay connected. If captions keep running through a song, any words the recognition catches are translated.
We also have an English service. Can it have Spanish captions?
Yes, the same way in the other direction. See English to Spanish.
FREE TRIAL
Try it on this Sunday’s service.
First 4 hours free, about 5 Sunday services in one language. No credit card.