A good interpreter always asks for your notes first. Context Enhancer is that same conversation: paste your outline, slides or order of service the day before, and the live translation arrives already knowing your topic, your names and your passages. It takes about a minute.
Ask a good interpreter to translate your Sunday service, and the first thing they ask for is your notes.
They want to know the topic, the passage you are preaching from, the names of the people you will thank, the story you are going to tell about your grandfather. Hand them your outline the night before and they arrive prepared. Hand them nothing and they meet all of it for the first time, in front of a room, with no chance to ask.
Live translation has always started every sermon cold. The first time the speaker says the name of your building, your youth group or the village they grew up in, the translation has to decide on the spot, with nothing to go on. Usually it lands. Sometimes it does not, and the person it matters to is sitting in the third row.
Since 2 April 2026, every room has a Context Enhancer. It is a box on your room's Smart Translation page where you paste whatever you already have about the coming service. The translation reads it before you begin, so the topic, the passage, the names and the phrases your church says every week are familiar before the first word is spoken. The first time it hears a word, it is not the first time it has seen it.
It is the preparation a human interpreter does, and it takes about a minute. You can read more on the Context Enhancer page.
You do not need to write anything new, and you do not need a script. If your outline is four bullet points on your phone, paste the four bullet points. Rough is fine. Half of it is fine. Nobody marks it.
Nothing you paste is shown to anybody: not to your guests, not on the big screen. It is there so the translation knows where today is going.
The difference is not abstract. It is specific words, at specific moments, that would otherwise have gone strange:
The name of your church stays the name of your church, instead of being translated as an ordinary phrase. Scripture references arrive as references, not as ordinary words that happen to look like them. The words your community uses every week come through the way you say them. The topic is set from the first sentence, instead of being worked out over the first five minutes. The names of the people you are about to thank are already known.
Think of a series on the life of Joseph. Prepared, the translation knows from the first sentence that "the pit", "the coat" and "Potiphar" belong to one story, and it carries them that way into every language in the room at the same time. Your notes help the guest who needs Persian and the guest who needs Ukrainian at once, not one at a time.
A prepared interpreter and an unprepared one are not the same person.
There is one thing to get right, and it is the timing. Paste your notes the day before: Saturday for a Sunday service. Not the week before, because the notes clear themselves a day and a half after you save them, so a text saved on Monday is gone by Sunday and nobody notices. And not so late that you are doing it while people find their seats.
That is all. There is nothing to confirm and nothing to check, and nobody needs to watch a screen during the service.
Context Enhancer is a head start, not a rail. Take a question from the room, tell the story you did not plan to tell, follow where the Spirit leads. Everything you say is still translated, prepared for or not.
And if you forget to paste anything, the service still runs and is still translated. Preparing makes a good translation better. It is not something you can fail.
The notes belong to that room. They are never shown to your guests or on a screen, and they clear themselves after a day and a half. Context Enhancer is included, the same as everything else: there is no way of paying that gets you a worse translation.
Context Enhancer tells the translation what today is about. Three other things work alongside it, and all of them are included:
Keywords are the words that must never move at all: your people's names, your places, your community's own vocabulary. Write them once and every service has them. Smart Translation builds whole sentences from what you meant, in the shape the listener's language actually uses. Smart Hints add a short note beside the translation when a verse or a saying would not travel between cultures on its own.
It is not only for churches, either. A conference talk, a lecture or a wedding order of service all have names and a subject, and all of them benefit from being prepared for.
We show you the whole thing live, in about fifteen minutes, with your own outline pasted in. Nothing is decided on the call and nothing follows it: you see it, and then you are the judge.