Glossa is a live AI voice-translation platform for churches and events where not everyone hears the sermon in the same language. It translates a service in real time into more than 100 languages, so people can follow on a phone in text or audio, with no receivers to hand out.^1
A church links its existing audio system or microphone, starts a stream, and attendees select their language and hear or read the translation on their own phone, tablet, or computer.^1 Translations can be spoken in a voice modelled on the speaker, and the engine is described as biblically trained, so Scripture references, book names, and theological terms are handled as the church means them.^1 A church can add its pastors' names, ministries, and abbreviations to its vocabulary, put live captions into ProPresenter, OBS, or vMix, and send the same stream out over RTMP.^1 There is no listener limit.^1
Glossa Personal changes who does the setup. An individual downloads the app free, points a phone at the speaker, and hears the service through earbuds in their chosen language, with a live transcript on screen and no setup needed from the church.^2 It serves people visiting a church abroad, attending a spouse's family church, on missions trips, still learning the local language, or hard of hearing.^2
The idea started as an app for the maker's own church. Maker Anton Karbanovich wrote on the launch page that the response was overwhelming, so it grew into a service any church can use: "Because the Great Commission isn’t about tech; it’s about making sure no one misses the truth because of language."^3 The site says hundreds of churches use it, naming SBC, Hillsong, PCA, CCA, and UMC.^1 Churches pay through pay-as-you-go or monthly plans, and a church that cannot afford it still gets a monthly free allowance.^1
"This platform has been a blessing for us. We have people from all over, and it was extremely helpful."^1 Guadelupe, Alpha Latin America
"Connecting Glossa completely changed our evangelism."^1 Derek, ICF Limassol
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