Translate a Spanish sermon into English

Check captured speech locally with the free microphone test.

1. Check Spanish as the speaker language and English as the translation language. The interface language does not change this pair.
2. Allow microphone access and start a short test while someone speaks clearly nearby. If the recognized Spanish is wrong, the English may carry the error forward.
3. Place the phone where speech is clear. Distance, music and simultaneous speakers can reduce intelligibility. A microphone-level indicator cannot guarantee accurate translation.
4. Read silently, or enable spoken output with headphones. English voices depend on the device. Check which microphone your headphones use: one near your mouth may hear the speaker poorly.
5. Stop when you finish. Check the session receipt and remaining credit. A lost connection or locked screen can interrupt listening; do not assume it continued.

Method: on November 6, 2026, using a signed-in account, we tested the existing personal translator at /personal on the live site. We ran it in Chromium on a computer with an emulated mobile-size screen, not on a physical phone or in a mobile browser. It was set to Spanish → English with text-only output (no spoken voice). Chromium's simulated microphone played a WAV file of this original text, which we wrote and had read by the synthetic voice es-MX-DaliaNeural at 10% below its default rate: “Buenos días. Hoy hablamos de ayudar a nuestro prójimo. Una familia nueva llegó a nuestra comunidad. No hablaban nuestro idioma, pero les dimos la bienvenida. El amor se demuestra con acciones. Escuchemos con paciencia y tratemos a los demás con respeto.” We started the session once and stopped it after 45 seconds. This was our own single test, not an independent or endurance test. Chromium plays such a file on a loop, so the same audio was heard twice within that one session. For the example sentence below, the second English output is the second hearing of the same sentence, not a correction of the first output, which stayed on screen unchanged. In the first loop, the opening “Buenos días” produced no caption. The table shows only the sentence discussed here, not the whole transcript. A rerun may give different output.

The first pass changed who the sentence described; the repeated pass preserved the plural. Displaying recognized Spanish can help bilingual readers inspect the output, but it does not expose every recognition error to someone who understands only English. Ask a speaker or competent interpreter about names, Bible references, negation or wording that changes the meaning. Generated wording is not an approved Bible quotation.

If your church already provides a translation feed, use its listener link: shared audio may be clearer than your phone’s room microphone. This page does not capture a phone call, another app’s internal audio or a livestream player. It processes nearby speech picked up by your microphone.

Google Translate also offers Transcribe for longer speech. It is a legitimate option to test on a supported device. Choose what works with your phone, audio and needs; this page makes no measured room-performance claim.

Setting this up for the whole church? See Spanish church translation. For personal setup advice, see following Mass in another language and phone translator apps.