Multilingual churches often have one solution for language barriers: a family member or volunteer whisper-translating the sermon in real time while trying to worship themselves. Voco was built for churches serving diaspora communities, international students, refugees, and deaf or hard-of-hearing attendees who need to follow along without that quiet, exhausting handoff.^1
Voco provides live translated sermon captions in more than 200 attendee output languages. Attendees read in their own language in their browser; spoken-input coverage, the languages Voco can listen to as the sermon language, is separate and varies by language.^7 Attendees scan a QR code, pick their language, and read along on their own phone, no app, no account, no hardware handed out at the door. Churches can also pipe the same live captions into OBS or ProPresenter for on-screen display, and teams can boost names and biblical terms so they are recognised more reliably, with a profanity filter always on.^2
Founder Josh Stannard built Voco after watching his Mexican in-laws sit through English-language services with no way to follow along, then watching the same problem in reverse on visits to Mexico and Spain.^1 The product is built for how churches actually run on a Sunday: volunteers, patchy Wi-Fi, and audio setups ranging from a phone on the lectern to a full sound desk.
Why Christians Love It"It's been very reliable with multiple languages as input and 100+ languages concurrent output. Both audio and transcript available."^3
Notable- Founded by Josh Stannard, a UK-based designer and developer, operating as a sole trader under UK GDPR with a published Data Processing Agreement.^4
- Featured in the Launch Llama newsletter, a startup-discovery publication.^5
- Pricing is transparent and per-church rather than per-seat, billed by the church's weekly rhythm of services, with unlimited attendees on every plan and a published policy against cutting a service off mid-sermon.^6
