Somebody in your room is following along in a language nobody on stage speaks. This is the list of languages that can be, and what each one can actually do today: over 200 languages and regional varieties, 183 distinct languages. The numbers and the table below are counted from the list the product runs on, not typed by hand.
People ask "how many languages do you support" as if it were one number. It is three, and they are not the same, so the table tells you all three for every language.
The language your speaker is actually talking in. The shortest of the three lists, because catching live speech in a real room is the hard part.
Words on your guest’s phone, or on the big screen. Nearly everything on the list. If you want the widest reach, captions are how you get it.
A real voice in their ear, so they can close their eyes and listen instead of reading. Many languages, and more as good voices become available.
Most rooms use three languages or fewer. The long list matters on the one Sunday somebody walks in speaking the language you never planned for.
Where there is something worth saying about a language, we have written it: what it does to a translation, what a church should know before putting it on a screen, and real lines from our own system. The rest are in the table below, and a language gets a page only when there is something to say that is not true of the others.
Everything on the screen: the translation as it happens, and the Smart Hints notes in their language. They read instead of listening, and for a lot of people that is the version they prefer anyway. A voice is added when there is a good one.
Both, depending on what you count. Over 200 languages and regional varieties are in the system, and that is what a guest sees in the list on their phone. Fold the varieties into their language, so that every kind of Arabic is one row, and it is over 180 distinct languages. This page shows both numbers, and the table counts the second way, with the number of varieties under each name.
In a church room, yes. You pin the language most people will use, and anyone who needs a different one chooses it on their own phone and the room starts carrying it. In other rooms you set the languages when you open the room.
On a church pass, no. Every pass carries as many languages as your guests need. If you pay as you go, each language a room carries uses credits while it runs, and the rate is shown before you go live.
Tell us. The list grows, and a real room asking for a language is the best reason to add it.
Open a room, share one code, and see who turns up.