Upload Sunday's sermon and get vertical clips with word-timed captions in the language it was preached in — Spanish sermons get Spanish captions, Korean gets Korean, Swahili gets Swahili. Auto-detected, nothing to configure.
To be clear: we don't translate or dub. We caption the sermon you actually preached — which is exactly what a church that preaches in that language needs.
Thousands of congregations preach in Spanish, Korean, Mandarin, or Swahili every Sunday — and almost none of that preaching makes it to social media, because clipping and captioning it by hand takes hours.
Your congregation is already multilingual.
The Spanish service at 11am, the Korean grandparents who watch the stream, the Swahili-speaking church plant you partner with — they're part of your community. Their preaching deserves the same clip-ready treatment as anyone's English sermon.
This is post-production clipping for social media — not a live service tool, and not translation. Upload each service after Sunday; each gets clips captioned in its own language by Monday.
Upload your video file or paste a YouTube link. A bilingual church uploads each service separately — the Spanish service and the English service each get their own clip set.
The system reads the full transcript and checks actual video frames to pick the most shareable moments: emotional peaks, key teaching points, memorable quotes. Typically up to 5 clips per sermon, whatever the language.
Captions are generated in the language the sermon was preached in — detected automatically from the audio — and burned in word-by-word. A Swahili sermon gets Swahili captions; nothing is translated or approximated.
9:16 clips with speaker tracking, silences trimmed, a thumbnail per clip. They land in your dashboard and inbox with durable links — download and post to Reels, TikTok, Shorts, or Facebook from your own accounts.
Tools like Wordly and OneAccord translate your service for in-person attendees in real time. That's a different use case. We handle what happens after Sunday — turning the recording into clips your community can actually share.
| Feature | Live Tools (Wordly, OneAccord) | Sermon Clips |
|---|---|---|
| Translates during live service | ✅ | — |
| Translates content into other languages | ✅ | — |
| Turns the sermon recording into social clips | — | ✅ |
| 9:16 vertical video for Reels/TikTok | — | ✅ |
| Word-timed captions in the preached language | — | ✅ |
| Auto-selects best sermon moments | — | ✅ |
| Download-ready files for Instagram/Facebook/YouTube | — | ✅ |
| Works for recorded/uploaded video | Limited | ✅ |
| No hardware required | ✅ | ✅ |
| Reaches people who weren't in the building | — | ✅ |
Every multilingual church situation is different. The pattern is the same: upload each service, and each gets clips in its own language.
You run an English service at 9 and a Spanish service at 11. Upload both recordings — the English service produces English-captioned clips for your main handle, the Spanish service produces Spanish-captioned clips for your @iglesia handle. No bilingual volunteer typing captions for either.
"Two services, two clip sets, one workflow."
Your services are in Korean or Mandarin — so your clips come out with Korean or Mandarin captions, in native script, that your congregation and their overseas family can actually share. If you also run an English-language youth service, upload it too and it gets English clips.
"Our members finally have clips they can forward to family back home."
One campus preaches in English, another in Spanish. Each campus uploads its own Sunday recording and posts clips in the language its community speaks — consistent output across campuses with no central editing team.
"Consistency across campuses without extra work."
You minister in Swahili, French, Amharic, or Haitian Creole. Whatever language a given service is preached in, the clips come back captioned in that language — and travel with your congregation's networks abroad.
"Our families share clips with their home countries."
The sermon's language is detected automatically and captions come out in that language. Churches use it today with Spanish, Swahili, and English sermons — and the speech recognition behind it covers the world's major preached languages, including:
Preach in something less common? Your first two sermons are free — upload it and see.
of social video is watched without sound — captions in the viewer's native language close the gap
of US churches serve communities where English is not the primary home language
higher share rate when content is in the viewer's native language, per social media research
When your Spanish service's members get a clip in Spanish — captioned, vertical, ready to forward — they share it with Spanish-speaking friends and family who aren't yet part of your church. That organic reach never happens when the preaching stays locked in a two-hour livestream recording.
Every clip in a community's native language is a low-friction invitation, in the language they feel at home in.
Native-language captions are part of every plan. No per-language fees, no credits to manage — a Swahili sermon costs the same as an English one.
No — and it's worth being direct about that. Captions come out in the language the sermon was preached in, auto-detected from the audio. A Spanish sermon gets Spanish captions; an English sermon gets English captions. We don't translate captions and we don't dub audio.
They're a word-timed transcript of what was actually preached — not a machine translation — so theological vocabulary comes out exactly as your pastor said it. As with any speech recognition, a quick review by a native speaker on your first few clips is a good habit, especially for names and Scripture references.
Upload each service recording separately. Each one gets its own set of clips with captions in its own language — many bilingual churches run separate social handles and posting schedules per language community, from one Sermon Clips account.
No. There's no dubbing or voice cloning — every clip keeps the original audio of your pastor preaching. If your ministry specifically needs dubbed audio in another language, see our honest guide to AI dubbing for churches for what those tools involve.
No. One Sermon Clips account handles all your services. You download the finished clips from one dashboard and post each language's clips to whichever social accounts you choose.
YouTube auto-captions are raw text laid over a landscape livestream. Sermon Clips picks the most shareable moments first, reframes them to vertical 9:16 with speaker tracking, trims dead air, and burns in styled word-timed captions. Auto-captions are a transcript; this is a finished post.
Start free — no credit card required. Upload your first sermon in the language you preach and see native-captioned clips in action.
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