Sermon Clips captions each clip in the language the sermon was preached in, word by word, burned into a vertical 9:16 clip. Preach in Spanish and the captions are Spanish. Preach in Korean and they are Korean. If your service has a live interpreter, clips can keep both languages or just the one you choose.
One thing up front: Sermon Clips does not translate. The captions are always in the language that was actually spoken.
Plainly, so you can decide before you upload anything.
It does
Detects the language the sermon was preached in and captions in that language
Burns word-timed captions into a vertical 9:16 clip with speaker tracking
Lets you set the sermon language yourself if detection ever gets it wrong
Keeps both languages of an interpreted service, or just the one you choose
Draws Arabic, Hindi, Tamil and other complex scripts in a font made for that script
It does not
Translate captions or audio into another language
Dub the sermon or clone a voice
Produce a second-language version of the same clip
Promise word-perfect captions
Three problems churches with more than one language run into, and what Sermon Clips does about each.
A caption track in the wrong language is worse than none. Sermon Clips detects the language from the sermon, checks the rendered clip against what it hears, and lets you set the language yourself.
A live interpreter puts two languages in every clip. By default a clip keeps both as recorded, and Adjust lets you keep only the language you pick.
Arabic, Hindi, Tamil and similar scripts need a font made for them or the marks land in the wrong place. Captions in those scripts use one.
Upload a sermon in the language you preach it in. Get back captioned vertical clips in that same language.
Upload your sermon
A video file or a YouTube link. The upload flow is the same whether the sermon is preached in English, Spanish, Korean or another language.
The language is detected for you
Sermon Clips works out the language from the whole sermon. When a YouTube video already has captions in its original language, those are used as well. If you would rather decide, set the sermon language on the upload screen.
Captions are burned in, in that language
Each clip gets word-timed captions in the language that was spoken, in a vertical 9:16 frame with the speaker tracked. Nothing is translated.
The result is checked
A rendered clip is compared with what is actually said. If the captions turn out to be in the wrong language, the clip is re-rendered in the language that was heard, and held back if it is still wrong.
Interpreted service? Choose what to keep
Clips keep both languages as recorded. In Adjust, pick a language to keep and the other voice is cut out of that clip, with the captions following.
Captions in the preached language are a good fit for some churches and the wrong tool for others. Here is the honest split.
Spanish-speaking congregations
Preach in Spanish and the clips are captioned in Spanish. That is the fit. If you preach in English and want Spanish clips, Sermon Clips cannot make them, and our guide at /spanish-sermon-translation lays out the options.
Korean, Portuguese, Arabic, Hindi and other language services
Preach in the language, get captions in the language. Set the sermon language yourself on the upload screen if you ever want to be sure.
Live-interpreted services
Keep both languages as recorded, or use Adjust to keep just one on a clip and let the captions follow.
Missions teams preaching in the local language
If the sermon is preached in the target country's language, the clips are captioned in it. Turning an English message into another language is a translation job that Sermon Clips does not do.
Second-language listeners with English sermons
English captions help people who read English more easily than they hear it. They stay English; there is no caption track in another language.
A different language on each campus
Upload each campus's recording on its own. Each sermon is captioned in the language it was preached in.
Automatic language detection
No tagging step. The language comes from the sermon itself, and from a YouTube video's original-language captions when it has them.
A language you can set yourself
The upload screen has a sermon-language menu. Pick a language and it wins over detection.
Word-timed captions in the preached language
Burned in, one word lit at a time, in a vertical 9:16 clip with the speaker tracked.
Two-language services
Keep both languages as recorded, or keep only one on a clip with Adjust. Three re-renders per clip.
Complex scripts drawn properly
Arabic, Devanagari, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Hebrew and related scripts are drawn in a font made for that script.
No translation, on purpose
What appears on screen is what was said. Nothing is rewritten into another language behind your back.
Your first two sermons are free, no card. Upload one in the language you preach and read the captions yourself.
Get Free ClipsWhich languages do you support for sermon clip captions?
Sermon Clips detects the language from the sermon itself and captions in that language, so there is no separate language to switch on. We do not publish a language count. The sermon-language menu on the upload screen includes Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Hindi, Swahili, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish and more. The quickest test for any language is your two free sermons: run one and read the captions.
Can you translate an English sermon into Spanish (or another language)?
No. Sermon Clips does not translate, on any plan. Captions are always in the language the sermon was preached in. A Spanish sermon gets Spanish captions and an English sermon gets English captions. If you need a sermon in a second language, a human translator or a dedicated tool is the right route, not Sermon Clips. The honest guide at /spanish-sermon-translation covers the options.
How accurate are non-English sermon captions?
We do not publish an accuracy percentage, because it changes with the language, the accent and the room audio. Clear audio from a lapel or board mic helps more than anything else. Captions are generated automatically from the audio, so give each clip a quick read before you post it. If a clip comes back captioned in the wrong language, email support@sermon-clips.com, or on a paid plan set the sermon language on the upload screen before you process it.
What about a service with a live interpreter?
An interpreted service has two languages in one recording, going back and forth. By default a clip keeps both as recorded. If you only want one, open Adjust on the clip, choose "Two languages in this clip?" and pick the language to keep. The other voice is cut out of that clip and the captions follow. Adjust re-renders a single clip and each clip can be re-rendered three times.
What if the preacher mixes two languages in the same sermon?
Each sermon is captioned in one main language, the one detected from the whole recording. A back-and-forth interpreted service is handled with the two-language option above. If the languages are mixed inside single sentences, we cannot promise word-perfect captions, so check those clips before posting.