In the first three months of 2026 the translation got faster, listeners got their own controls, speakers could see who was listening, names stopped being mangled, and on 19 March we released Smart Hints. Here is what changed for churches and listeners.
If the end of 2025 was about the basics, the start of 2026 was about the translation itself: how fast it arrives, how it reads, and how much a listener can shape it to suit them. It ended with the feature churches mention most when they tell us why they chose MulingStream.
The speaker's screen now shows listener activity while you are live: when someone joins, when someone leaves, and which language they chose. A volunteer at the sound desk can see at a glance that the guest from Iran is in and listening, without walking over to ask.
You can now delete your account from your settings, without writing to us. Nothing is lost by accident: after you ask, you have thirty days to sign back in and change your mind. All our account emails got a cleaner design at the same time.
On 17 January we changed the way the speaker's voice reaches us, so the translation arrives noticeably sooner after the words are spoken. For a listener this is the difference between following the sermon and following one sentence behind it.
Speed matters most at the moments a room reacts together. When the pastor tells a joke and the room laughs, the guest should be laughing with them, not ten seconds later on their own. When the congregation stands to pray, the guest should know why. Every second we take away brings the guest closer to being part of the room rather than watching it.
Every listener can now set their own volume and their own text size, right in the listening page. The older guest who needs larger letters and the teenager who wants the voice quieter both get what they need, on their own phone, without changing anything for anyone else. Read more on features for listeners.
A week later, on 2 February, we fixed something small that mattered on phones: the first words of the voice were sometimes cut off as the audio started. Now the listener hears the sentence from its first word.
Credits became the single unit for MulingStream usage, and the speaker's screen started showing how much is left while you are live, so nobody is surprised halfway through a service. Churches today mostly use church passes instead, but credits are still how everything else on MulingStream is measured.
A translation tool sees an ordinary word and translates it. That is right for most words and wrong for names: Grace, Faith, Joy and Hope are somebody's actual name in the third row. Since 17 February a room can hold a list of keywords, the names, places and terms that must never be guessed at, and they come through intact in every language. The same release let you edit a room's name and description from its settings and added a live sound wave so you can see the microphone is working. Read more on the keywords page.
On 25 February we opened a demo room where anyone can be the speaker: choose a language, talk into your own microphone, and watch it come out translated, before you ever create an account. It is the quickest way for a pastor or a media team to hear their own voice in another language. Try the speaker demo.
You can now sign in with an account you already have, instead of yet another password, and the site asks clearly which cookies you accept.
In early March more languages got a natural voice, and the translated text began to flow onto the listener's screen more smoothly, instead of arriving in jumps. On the speaker's side, the translation into each language appeared in its own tab, so a volunteer can check what the guests are reading.
This is the release we are proudest of from these months. On 19 March, translation became smart: it understands what the talk is about and translates the meaning in context, rather than word by word. And on the same day we released Smart Hints, short notes that appear on the listener's screen underneath a line that would not travel on its own: the verse the pastor quoted, the saying everybody local knows, the place nobody abroad has heard of.
Smart Hints were introduced for the first time by MulingStream, and they are the feature churches mention most. The whole story is in Smart Hints: when the words arrive but the meaning does not, and on the Smart Hints page.
Translation carries the words. Smart Hints carry what the words were doing.
At the end of March we introduced pay as you go: buy credits when you need them, use them when you speak, with an invoice for every purchase. It is still one of the ways to use MulingStream today, next to the membership and the church passes. See pricing.
In April we let churches prepare the translation before they speak with Context Enhancer, and put the translation on the big screen with MulingDisplay. Read on in the release notes for April to June 2026, or go back to October to December 2025.
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.