{ "meta": { "title": "Be ready for the visitor you haven’t met: church translation set up once | {{appName}}", "description": "Set InterScribe up once: a weekly Sunday series that starts itself, your portal’s QR code at the welcome desk, and a printed kit for volunteers. Then you are ready for the visitor who needs the sermon in another language." }, "hero": { "pill": "Be ready · for churches", "title": "You never know who will walk through your doors.", "lead": "Maybe nobody in your church needs translation today. Then one Sunday a visitor sits down who understands almost none of the sermon. Set InterScribe up once: a weekly Sunday series that starts itself, your portal’s QR code at the welcome desk, and a printed kit your volunteers can follow. Then you are ready for them.", "chipSelf": "Starts by itself", "chipNoApp": "No app for guests", "chipPrice": "{{percent}}% church price", "alt": "A church sanctuary seen from the back, with the congregation seated", "speakerLabel": "Sunday service · started itself at 10:30", "speakerQuote": "Welcome. Scan the code and choose your language.", "chipPortuguese": "Português · captions", "chipPersian": "فارسی · AI voice · his first Sunday here", "chipEnglish": "English · captions · Ruth, row two, hard of hearing", "phoneLabel": "The guest page on a phone, showing the service in Portuguese", "quote": "I was a stranger, and ye took me in.", "reference": "Matthew 25:35" }, "story": { "eyebrow": "Picture this", "title": "The visitor nobody expected.", "steps": [ { "when": "10:41", "text": "A small church where every service is in English. A man walks in alone. He arrived from Iran last month, and a neighbour gave him the address. He speaks Persian and a few words of English." }, { "when": "10:42", "text": "Margaret on the welcome team doesn’t speak Persian either. She doesn’t need to. She turns the card on the desk toward him: “Scan this, choose your language.”" }, { "when": "10:50", "text": "The service started itself at 10:30, as it does every week. By the first Bible reading he is following it in Persian on his own phone. Afterwards he stays for coffee." }, { "when": "Beforehand", "text": "The church had done one thing: got ready." } ], "alt": "Two members of a welcome team holding the doors open to a church" }, "hospitality": { "eyebrow": "Readiness is hospitality", "title": "Be ready for the person you haven’t met yet.", "text": "Churches already prepare for people they haven’t met: a seat kept free, a welcome pack, coffee for whoever comes. Language is one more way to make room, done before anyone has to ask. One person is reason enough. A visitor who can follow the message can feel they belong, and come back.", "quote": "Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.", "reference": "Hebrews 13:2", "link": "Study the stranger and the nations in Scripture" }, "setup": { "eyebrow": "Easy setup", "title": "Ready in 10 minutes. Ready every Sunday.", "lead": "Four steps with your sound volunteer. After that, nobody has to remember anything on Sunday morning.", "worksToday": "Works today", "steps": [ { "title": "Choose how it hears the service", "text": "The sound desk computer: the InterScribe Agent takes the mix from your desk. Your stream: already sending to YouTube from OBS or vMix? Add InterScribe as a second destination; it suits online viewers, because in the room captions run several seconds behind the speaker. This computer’s mic: a browser on any computer, for a small room." }, { "title": "A weekly Sunday series that starts itself", "text": "Set the day, the time and the languages once. At 10:30 it goes live. Nobody has to press anything. Until then it waits in standby and guests hear nothing." }, { "title": "Print your portal QR", "text": "Print your portal’s QR once: it always shows today’s service, because your portal lists every upcoming event. Put it on the welcome desk, the slides and the bulletin. Share your portal, not a single event: events change every week. People who type can use the event code." }, { "title": "Print the volunteer kit", "text": "A card for the sound desk, a sign for the welcome desk, a card for the welcome team and a slide. Plain words a first-time volunteer understands." } ], "kitStatus": "Coming soon", "streamNote": "Your stream: OBS, vMix and any encoder that sends RTMP, RTMPS or WHIP. YouTube keeps its stream. Taking audio straight from a YouTube live stream isn’t available; captions and audio tracks on your YouTube stream are on our public roadmap.", "shotAlt": "The Share panel: what listeners open, its QR code, link and event code", "shotCaption": "The real Share panel, from a sample workspace. Choose Your portal, not This event: a single event’s link changes every week, your portal doesn’t.", "sundayTitle": "What happens on Sunday, without anyone.", "sunday": [ { "tag": "Before the service · Standby", "text": "The channel waits and streams nothing to listeners." }, { "tag": "Sound check", "text": "If someone is at the desk, they can run a sound check of up to 5 minutes, or start audio early to hear the room." }, { "tag": "At the time you set · Live", "text": "It starts at the time you set. Anyone who scans now follows from this moment." }, { "tag": "Next week", "text": "The same portal QR shows next Sunday’s service." } ], "needs": "To start by itself, the sound desk computer must be on with the InterScribe Agent open, or a browser tab open on the computer you chose." }, "kit": { "eyebrow": "The volunteer kit", "title": "Paper your volunteers can trust.", "lead": "Whoever is on sound or at the door this week reads the card and knows what to do. Each piece carries your church’s portal QR code and a space to write your details: series name, the sound desk computer, who to call.", "comingSoon": "Coming soon", "download": "Download the kit (PDF)", "downloadNote": "Printable pieces on US Letter, with your QR filled in once you are signed in.", "note": "Posters and slides are already in the Share panel. The kit adds the volunteer cards and the welcome-desk set, all with your portal’s QR." }, "more": { "eyebrow": "More than translation", "title": "Ready for the visitor. Useful to everyone.", "lead": "The same QR code helps the people already in your seats follow the message, and take part in it.", "captionsTitle": "Captions for everyone", "captionsText": "Many people follow better when they can read along, in the language you preach in or in their own.", "stats": [ { "figure": "25%+", "text": "People with hearing loss. More than a quarter of people over 60 live with disabling hearing loss. On average, a third of US congregation participants are 65 or older.", "source": "WHO, 2026 · Faith Communities Today 2020, via Lifeway Research, 2021 (33% aged 65+, 17% of the population)" }, { "figure": "38%", "text": "People who follow better reading along. 38% of US adults prefer subtitles on, and 63% of under-30s. Their top reasons are understanding and accents, ahead of hearing.", "source": "YouGov, 2023" }, { "figure": "100+", "text": "Second-language listeners. A review of more than 100 studies found captions improve understanding of, attention to and memory for what is said, especially for second-language listeners and people with hearing loss.", "source": "Gernsbacher, 2015" } ], "partTitle": "Take part, in any language", "partText": "The page a guest opens to listen also lets them join in. Turn on what fits your church.", "tools": [ { "title": "Q&A", "text": "Questions can be anonymous, which helps people who would never raise a hand. Research on classroom response tools finds small but real gains in participation, and shy people prefer to ask anonymously." }, { "title": "Polls", "text": "A question to the room, answered from every seat." }, { "title": "Translated chat", "text": "Each person reads it in their own language." }, { "title": "Notes", "text": "Written beside the message as it is preached." }, { "title": "Highlights", "text": "Keep the line that spoke to you." }, { "title": "Ask AI", "text": "Ask about what was said, in your language." }, { "title": "A recap", "text": "To look back on during the week." } ], "toolsSource": "Hunsu et al., 2016 · EDUCAUSE, 2007. Classroom studies, not congregations.", "errors": "Live AI captions can contain errors, most often in names, quoted verses and song lyrics.", "captionsLink": "Captions for everyone", "moreLink": "More than translation", "chips": ["Q&A · ask without your name", "Poll · one tap", "Chat · in your language", "Recap · to look back on"], "captionsAlt": "A smiling woman with earbuds looking at her phone" }, "takes": { "eyebrow": "What it takes, honestly", "title": "Prepared before the need. Dependable when it matters.", "lead": "A QR code on its own doesn’t translate anything. It opens a page. What makes the page speak is ready behind it:", "items": [ { "title": "The sound feed", "text": "InterScribe hears what your desk or stream sends. A muted channel means no captions." }, { "title": "A computer that stays awake", "text": "Starting by itself needs the computer on, with the Agent open and the lid up, or a browser tab open." }, { "title": "A steady connection", "text": "A cable to the router beats Wi-Fi. Run the connection check once from the sound desk." }, { "title": "One rehearsal", "text": "The one thing we ask. Let it run on an ordinary Sunday, with a phone in the back row. A setup nobody has tried is not ready." } ], "closing": "And translation is not a welcome on its own. It removes a barrier so your people can do what they already do: greet, listen, pray, invite back." }, "ways": { "eyebrow": "Where you are today", "title": "Three ways churches use InterScribe.", "lead": "Start where you are. Move to the next when your church does.", "items": [ { "tag": "This page", "title": "Be ready", "text": "For a church with no regular translation need that wants to welcome the visitor who might come.", "points": ["Your portal’s QR on posters, printed once", "Languages set in advance", "Start it only when someone needs it"] }, { "tag": "Every Sunday", "title": "Include everyone weekly", "text": "For a church with members who follow every service in another language.", "points": ["Live on schedule, every service", "Captions, AI voice and your interpreters", "Transcripts for small groups"], "link": "Preach to every nation", "to": "/use-cases/church-sermons" }, { "tag": "Beyond your walls", "title": "Reach the nations", "text": "For conferences, livestreams, outreach and missions, where the audience is many languages at once.", "points": ["Several rooms, each with its own channel", "Online viewers on the same link", "Interpreters from anywhere"], "link": "The Great Commission", "to": "/churches/great-commission" } ] }, "package": { "eyebrow": "The Be Ready package", "title": "Pay a little to stay ready. Use hours when someone comes.", "lead": "For a church with no regular translation need that wants to welcome the visitor who might come.", "name": "Be Ready", "audience": "For churches", "rows": { "eventHour": "Prepaid event hour", "eventHourValue": "{{price}} an hour", "voiceHour": "Prepaid AI voice hour", "voiceHourValue": "{{price}} an hour", "church": "Church price on top", "churchValue": "{{percent}}% off, declared at checkout" }, "rowsNote": "Prepaid hours are bought when you need them, at the rates in the catalog today.", "soon": "Coming soon", "soonItems": [ "A small monthly readiness fee that keeps your series, portal QR, languages and kit live", "Prepaid hours at a discount that roll over", "Hours drawn only when someone listens: the service waits ready and starts when the first guest opens the link" ], "kit": "The volunteer kit, with your portal QR on every piece (coming soon)", "talk": "Talk to a person" }, "faq": { "title": "Questions about being ready? Ask us." }, "cta": { "title": "Be ready by next Sunday.", "text": "Hear what a visitor would hear, then see what it costs your church. Talk to a person if you’d like help with the first rehearsal." }, "marks": { "share": ["Choose Your portal, then print its QR once", "Your portal's link for your website and bulletin", "An event code for people who type"] }, "papers": { "deskFront": { "kicker": "Sound desk · side 1 of 2", "title": "Sunday at the sound desk", "steps": ["Before the service", "It starts by itself at 10:30", "Need it to start early?"], "qrBold": "Your portal's QR. Print it once.", "qrNote": "It always shows today's service.", "details": "Your church's details: series · computer · who to call", "caption": "Sound desk card, front", "sub": "Three steps for whoever runs sound" }, "deskBack": { "kicker": "Sound desk · side 2 of 2", "title": "If something's not right", "rows": [ "Guests see or hear nothing", "The Console says Standby", "The Agent computer is offline", "Captions are in the wrong language", "The internet is slow" ], "caption": "Sound desk card, back", "sub": "What you see, and what to do" }, "sign": { "welcome": "Welcome", "church": "YOUR CHURCH", "listen": "Listen in your language", "scan": "Scan here with your phone camera", "caption": "Welcome desk sign", "sub": "Ten languages, one QR code" }, "team": { "kicker": "Welcome team · keep this side", "title": "If a guest doesn't speak English", "steps": ["Smile and say hello", "Show them the card", "Help them pick their language", "Offer a good seat"], "scan": "Scan. Choose your language.", "caption": "Welcome team card", "sub": "Four steps, and a side to show the guest" }, "slide": { "listen": "Listen in your language", "scan": "Scan with your phone camera. No app needed.", "caption": "Welcome slide", "sub": "For the screen before the service" } }, "phone": { "chat": "The real listener page, Chat tab: messages translated into Spanish, a pinned welcome and a quick card from the team" } }