A translation is only as good as what reaches the person listening. So we redesigned the listener's side for them: captions and a voice, text as big as they need, a voice that keeps up, and a link that works anywhere, in the building or from a hospital bed at home.
Most of the work in live translation happens at the front of the room. Most of what matters happens in one seat.
It is the grandmother who reads better than she hears. The young man who fled his country last year and understands half of what the pastor says. The guest who forgot their earbuds. The church member who could not come this Sunday because they are in hospital. Each of them meets MulingStream through one thing only: the screen in their hand. If that screen is hard to read, hard to set up or hard to keep up with, the best translation in the world does not reach them.
So on 6 May 2026 we released a redesigned listener page, built around the person listening and nobody else.
This is the part people do not expect, so we say it first: a listener does not have to be in the building.
Every room has a link. Whoever has that link can follow the service in their own language while it is happening, wherever they are. At home with a sick child. In a hospital bed. On a train on the way back from a night shift. A parent in another country following their son's wedding in the language they think in. As long as they have the link and the service is running, they are there.
The church does not have to do anything special for it. Share the link in the WhatsApp group, in the newsletter or in a message to the person who could not come, and they open it the same way a guest in the room opens the QR code. Read how joining with a QR code or a link works.
You do not have to be in the building. With the link, you can follow from home, from a hospital bed, or on the move.
The words arrive as captions within seconds, in the language the listener chose. Under them, Smart Hints explain what a guest might not know: a Bible verse quoted in full from a Bible in their language, or the meaning of a saying that does not travel word for word. Choose a room below and watch it happen.
Some people read faster than they listen. Some cannot hear well. Some do not want an earbud in during a service. So the captions are always there, and the voice is a choice: turn on Listening and the translation is read aloud in your language, at the volume you set. Most languages have a voice, a few can be read but not yet heard, and you can switch between reading and listening at any time.
That makes the listener's page work for people who are deaf or hard of hearing too. They do not need a separate service or a separate seat. They read the captions in the language they know best, on their own phone.
Small grey letters on a phone are a quiet way of telling older people the service is not for them. So the text size is in the listener's hands, in seven steps from small to very large. The live captions and the translation grow together, and the space between lines grows with them, so large text is still easy to follow.
Translated speech is often longer than the original. A sentence that takes the pastor three seconds can take four or five in another language, and over a whole sermon those seconds add up.
So the voice keeps up on its own. When it falls behind, it plays a little faster to catch up with the speaker, and the listener can see how far behind it is. And each listener chooses how far behind they are willing to let it fall before it skips ahead to where the speaker is now: a few seconds for someone who wants to stay right with the room, up to a full minute for someone who would rather hear every sentence. That choice is in Settings, under Audio Pace.
On a phone, everything sits on a simple bar along the bottom: Captions, Status, Settings and Leave Room. The screen stays on while you are in the room, so it does not go dark in the middle of the sermon. If the connection drops for a moment, the page reconnects on its own and picks up where the room is now.
On a computer or a tablet, there is room for more. The speaker's own words sit on one side and the translation on the other, aligned line by line, with your settings beside them. It is the most comfortable way to follow from home: open the link on a laptop, choose your language, set the text size, and follow the whole service in a window.
And for the people in the room without a phone in their hand, the same captions can go up on the screen at the front with MulingDisplay.
The listener never pays. The church or the organiser pays for the room, and the person listening is their guest. There is no app, no account, no email address and no password. It works in the browser of the phone they already have, old or new. More on MulingStream for listeners and how it works for listeners.
Since 17 September 2026, each listener can decide which Smart Hints appear on their own screen. In Settings, they see every kind of hint the room allows, all switched on to begin with, and can switch off any of them. A guest who knows the Bible well can turn off the verse hints and keep the ones that explain sayings and customs. Someone who finds any note distracting can turn them all off and simply follow the captions.
There is one rule: a listener can narrow what the room allows, but never widen it. If the speaker has switched a kind of hint off, it does not appear for anyone. The church stays in charge of what is explained during its service, and every listener stays in charge of their own screen. Their choice is remembered on their phone for that room, so next time it is already set.
Since 17 October 2026, the first thing a listener sees after opening the link is a simple question: which language do you want to hear? They choose, and then they join, so nobody lands in a room in a language they did not pick. If the speaker has not started yet, they can join anyway, and their language is ready the moment the service begins.
The same page keeps two choices clearly apart: the language you hear, and the language of the buttons and menus around you. Someone who opens the page in a language they cannot read can switch the page itself without changing what they listen to. And a phone remembers the rooms it has joined recently, so getting back in next Sunday is one tap.
Our listener demo room is live day and night. Open it on your phone or your laptop, wherever you are, choose a language, and try the text size and the voice for yourself.
Your guests need nothing but their phone and the link, in the room or at home. Sign up as a church and your first two services are free.