When a congregation speaks more than one language, Sunday can leave part of the room outside the sermon. Hope Translator is a live captioning and translation tool for sermons, events, and speeches. The speaker broadcasts from a phone or laptop, and people in the audience scan a QR code to read or listen in their language — no app download required to join.^1
Hope Harbor, LLC builds it from Grandview, Missouri.^2 Listeners can follow in 44 output languages: 40 with spoken audio, and four — Cantonese, Filipino, Haitian Creole, and Khmer — as live text only.^3 Churches can put captions on a main screen through OBS or ProPresenter for people who are hard of hearing.^1 Speaker apps are on iPhone and Android; listings also mention Solo Mode, external microphones, AI session summaries, and transcript export.^1^5
The builders have said they made it after a Chinese fellowship in Texas welcomed English, Mandarin, Cantonese, and Korean speakers and felt worship split by language.^6 The homepage says 300+ organizations use it every month.^1 It is freemium: a free monthly allotment of translation time, then paid plans.^1
