Use case
Live translation for church services and sermons
Share live translated captions for a church service over a link or code, with glossary terms for names and a transcript afterwards.
TanLens gives a church service live captions in the languages your congregation reads. A microphone near the pulpit or a direct feed from the sound desk becomes text on screen, and a broadcast room lets people follow on their own device by link or code. Names, sermon terms and scripture references can be fixed in a glossary so they are translated the same way every week.
01One microphone for the room
For an in-person service, connect the computer to the room’s sound desk if it can send a line-level output, or place a USB microphone near the speaker. Open TanLens in the browser, choose microphone mode, allow microphone access, and set the source language to auto-detect only if the service really mixes languages; otherwise lock it. Ask the speaker to keep a steady distance from the microphone and avoid long pauses with music playing, because music is not speech and can produce stray captions.
02A room for the congregation
Broadcast rooms are available on the Max and Team plans. Start the caption session first, create a room linked to it, then share the viewer link or the six-character code. Viewers open it in a browser, pick the language they want, and read along without installing anything. The room carries caption text, not the service audio, so viewers do not receive an audio stream from the host. For Arabic, captions switch to right-to-left alignment automatically, which matters for readers who follow the translation on their own device.
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