In spring 2026 churches could prepare the translation before they spoke, put it on the big screen, and hand guests a printed card in their own language. Listeners got a new room, a way to tell us how it went, and a way to invite a friend. Here is what changed.
By April, MulingStream translated meaning rather than words, and Smart Hints explained what the words were doing. The spring was about everything around that: preparing before the service, reaching the people who do not want to look at a phone, and making it easier for a guest to join and to bring someone with them.
Ask a good human interpreter to come, and they will ask for your notes first. Context Enhancer is that same conversation, and it takes about a minute. Before the service, add the topic, the passage you are preaching from, the people you will name and the phrases your church says every week. Then the first time the speaker says the name of your building or your youth group, it is not the first time MulingStream has seen it. Keywords became part of every room at the same time, at no extra cost. Read more on the Context Enhancer page.
Phones work, and plenty of people prefer them. But not everyone wants to hold a lit screen through a service, and not everyone has a phone to hold. On 7 April we released MulingDisplay, which puts the translation on the screen the room is already looking at, with its own QR code so guests can still join on their phones. Older guests, children, the person whose battery died: a screen asks nothing of anybody. See MulingDisplay.
There is a quieter reason too. When translation only lives on phones, the people who need it are the people looking down. On a screen, everybody looks at the same place, and needing the words is not a signal to anyone. The person who reads them and the person who ignores them look exactly the same.
In mid April MulingStream got a new look, and the speaker's room was rebuilt from the ground up: clearer sections for languages and listeners, a short built-in tutorial for first-time users, and a version that works on a phone, so a speaker can run a session without a laptop.
Some phones stop sound from playing until the person touches the screen, and some pause it again after a while. Since 2 May, a listener whose audio was stopped this way sees one question, Resume listening?, and a single tap brings the translation back.
If the speaker's connection dropped, the room could stay locked for several minutes, and even its own speaker could not start it again. Since 5 May the speaker sees at once that the connection was lost, and a Resume Live button takes the room straight back. This was the first step toward the automatic reconnecting we finished in September: read When the wifi drops, MulingStream carries on by itself.
A proper contact page arrived on 5 May, so anyone can write to us with a question, a demo request or feedback, and we answer every message ourselves: contact us.
On 6 May the listener's room was redesigned: calmer, easier to read, with the language and the controls where a thumb expects them. And at the end of a session, a listener can now tell us in a few words how it went, in their own language. That feedback, from people in the room, is where much of what we built afterwards came from.
We read every one of those notes. Some are a single word of thanks in Persian or Ukrainian; some tell us exactly which sentence did not make sense. Both kinds have shaped what we built next.
On 20 May MulingStream moved to its own website, mulingstream.com, written for churches and events, with the pages you are reading now. Your account, rooms and settings stayed exactly where they were.
Not every guest will scan a code from a slide. Since 19 June the speaker can download a printable handout for the room: the QR code, the room name and simple joining steps, in the guest's own language, ready to put on the seats or hand out at the door. A guest who would never ask for help can pick up a card in their own language and join on their own. MulingDisplay gained a matching Joining Guide that shows the QR code and the steps on the big screen.
The person most likely to bring the next guest is the guest who is already listening. Since 20 June, when the room allows it, a listener can share the room with a friend straight from their phone, through the apps they already use. The speaker decides whether this is on, and can see in the room when a shared link brings someone in.
The person most likely to bring the next guest is the guest who is already listening.
The summer brought a translation length setting, help for an interpreter on stage, and in September the church passes. Read on in the release notes for July to October 2026, or go back to January to March 2026.
We show you the whole thing live, in about fifteen minutes. Nothing is decided on the call and nothing follows it: you see it, and then you are the judge.