Transcripts, Bible study tools, live captions and translation, all from one recording of the service. Anything not ready for everyone yet is labeled.
Everything without a label works today. New just released Beta works, still being refined Coming soon in development, not available yet
A little while after each service, the sermon is saved with its audio, a full transcript and AI-written study material, in your library and on your listen page.
Every word is timed to the recording. Tap or click a word and the audio jumps to it, or select a phrase and tap Play from.
Each word lights up as it's spoken and the transcript scrolls by itself. Skip 30 seconds back or forward, and play at 0.75× to 2×.
Cleaned up and split into paragraphs, in the original language and any translation. Download it as a PDF.
An overview and an outline (introduction, key points, conclusion) with every scripture referenced, written after each service.
Memorable lines and the personal stories that were told. Stories from all your sermons also appear on your church page.
Every service is saved as an event. Your team can search the library by meaning, not just exact words, and filter by topic, scripture and date.
SermonWave emails the summary to the people on your list when a sermon is ready, and you can resend it any time.
Add your church's intro and outro to saved sermon audio from the audio library, at an even volume. Listeners can skip the intro.
A podcast feed of your sermons, with chapter markers when you use an intro or outro. Ask us to set yours up.
SermonWave listens for the Bible in every sermon and links each passage to study pages built on public-domain Bibles and Greek and Hebrew lexicons.
References the pastor mentions are detected in live captions and in the saved sermon, and linked in every listener language.
Hover over a reference to read the verse. During a live service, verses pop up on screen as they're mentioned.
A verse the pastor quotes without naming it shows as Possibly quoting. Your admins can hide weak matches.
Opens beside the sermon at that passage while the audio keeps playing. Tabs: Read, Resources (other public sermons on the passage, your church's first) and Word study, plus Search and My notes.
Tap a word for its card: the original word, its meaning and how the translation renders it. Word pages list every occurrence and the sermons that preached it.
Read the Greek or Hebrew word by word under the text.
Compare translations side by side in English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Vietnamese, Chinese, Arabic and Haitian Creole.
Search by words, a phrase, a topic or a reference, or by meaning. Find a Greek or Hebrew word by spelling, Strong's number or English meaning.
Highlights, bookmarks and notes, saved on the listener's own phone or computer.
The Bible study pages are public. Open a chapter, tap a word for its Greek or Hebrew, or search by meaning.
Your listen page is the front door: live captions during the service, and every past sermon afterwards. It opens on any phone from a QR code or a short link.
The listen page opens in any phone browser. Nobody signs up or installs anything.
Captions appear seconds after each sentence, with auto-scroll and a Jump to live button. A real help for anyone hard of hearing.
Listeners can go back to earlier sermons: audio, transcript, summary, quotes and stories.
One address for your church that shows a Live now card whenever a service is running.
Choose who can open each sermon. Unlisted and private links include an access key automatically.
Optional public pages for your church and each sermon, with the summary, quotes and transcript, browsable by topic and scripture, in English and Spanish.
Listeners can send a prayer request, ask to be contacted or share a testimony from the listen page. Your team gets an email and sees each one in the dashboard.
A short tour shows people how to use the page, in English, Spanish or French. Open it from the dashboard to walk your congregation through it.
A permanent captions-only link to show live captions in ProPresenter, OBS or any screen that can display a web page.
With the OBS plugin, live captions go into your YouTube stream.
Embeds your church's YouTube live stream next to the captions.
The listen page itself is available in three languages, with light and dark mode.
“every man heard them speaking in his own language”
Acts 2:6 (ASV)
At Pentecost, the message reached every listener in their own language. Translation carries that welcome into your services: each sentence is translated as it's spoken, shown as captions and read aloud by an AI voice, and afterwards the transcript and summary are there in each language.
The original and the translation side by side (tabs on phones), seconds after each sentence.
Tap Listen to hear an AI voice read the translation through the phone and earbuds.
After the service, the transcript, summary and quotes are available in each language you turned on.
Set the language the pastor speaks, or let SermonWave detect English, Spanish or French automatically.
Transcription, translation and voice run on SermonWave's servers. Your sermon audio is not sent to third-party AI services.
Listeners pick from the languages your church turned on, and the phone remembers the choice.
Unlimited hours. We never charge by the hour. Each language you add is one flat monthly price.
Captions always show the original language too. Need another language? Tell us which one. Contact us →
Connect from OBS or a browser, then run everything from one dashboard. After that, each service takes care of itself.
For churches that stream with OBS Studio. Takes the pastor's mic straight from OBS, adds captions to your stream and can send a translated stream per language. Details below. ↓
Turns the computer you already have into a SermonWave device. Open it in Chrome, Edge or Safari and choose the input that carries the pastor's mic.
A small dedicated box for your soundboard that starts on its own every service. Not available to order yet.
Transcript, summary, outline, quotes, scripture links and any translations are produced without anyone touching anything.
See every device, start or stop remotely, and change languages and audio settings.
An audio level meter and the live transcript for each device while it runs.
Every service is saved as an event, in a calendar and a searchable list.
Keep your intro and outro clips in one place and add them to sermon audio.
Invite your team with admin or standard roles.
One login can manage several organizations, each with its own devices.
Your logo, cover image and church details appear on your pages and PDFs.
Start a 14-day free trial, change plans and add devices yourself. Month to month.
The dashboard is available in English and Spanish.
The SermonWave plugin takes the pastor's mic straight from OBS, adds live captions to your stream, and can send a translated stream and a translated recording for each language.
The plugin shows a code in OBS. Enter it in your SermonWave dashboard. No passwords in OBS.
Choose the pastor's mic source. Music and other sources stay out of the translation.
Pick languages, add the captions overlay, and turn on a translated stream or recording per language.
Translation starts and stops with your stream or recording, or with the Start button in the SermonWave dock.
A SermonWave Captions source for your scenes. Choose the language, font, size, text color, background color and opacity, outline, alignment and number of lines.
Embeds CEA-608 captions in your main stream, which viewers can turn on where the platform shows them, such as YouTube. Latin-script languages.
Sign in with Google once. SermonWave creates each language's broadcast when the stream starts, on a stream key you pick or a new one.
A second live stream for each language to YouTube, Facebook Live or any RTMP server, with the translated voice over your service audio and that language's captions.
Holds the translated stream back a few seconds (8 by default, 4 to 15) so the voice and captions line up with the pastor on screen.
A second recording file per language next to your normal one. After you stop, it is re-synced so each sentence starts when it was spoken, with a subtitle track and a .srt file.
Set how loud the original sound is, and how far it dips while the translation speaks. Your main stream and recording stay untouched.
Start and stop with OBS hotkeys, so a Stream Deck button can control SermonWave.
Set the speaking language and the translation languages without leaving OBS.
Audio is compressed and buffered for up to 5 minutes, so a network hiccup delays the captions instead of losing words.
The dock warns when the link is down, the network is congested or the computer is overloaded, and sends a diagnostic report to our support team when something goes wrong.
Copy your listen link or show its QR code right from the dock.
Beta In beta for OBS Studio 32 and newer. The public download is not open yet. Email team@serve.love to join the beta.
These are in development and not available yet.
A dedicated box that connects to your soundboard with one audio cable and starts on its own every service, with an audio output for a speaker or an assistive-listening transmitter.
A translation add-on, $40/month per location with unlimited use: the translated audio of saved sermons is voiced in an AI voice modeled on your pastor's own voice. Live translation uses our standard voices. Made only with the pastor's consent.
Translation for small groups in the same room: everyone joins from their phone with earbuds, speaks their own language and hears the others in theirs.
Start, stop and switch languages from a Stream Deck button or your own production tools, without going through OBS.
Signed installers for Windows and Mac, downloadable from your dashboard.
Free for 14 days, no credit card. Plans from $65/month. Unlimited hours. We never charge by the hour.