Thousands of US churches serve bilingual or immigrant congregations, and missions teams need clips in their target country's language. Sermon Clips' caption pipeline handles 30+ languages with theology-aware vocabulary tuning — so Spanish "salvación" and Korean "성령" come through right the first time, not transcribed as phonetic guesses. Upload once, export captioned clips in the languages your people actually speak.
Generic AI tools were built for English-language content. The moment you ask them to caption a Spanish sermon, a Korean message, or a code-switching service — it shows.
Generic AI captions mis-transcribe theological terms in non-English languages worse than they do in English. 'Salvación' becomes 'salvacion' or 'salvation'; '성령' gets dropped or wrongly segmented.
Bilingual congregations need separate clips for English-speaking and heritage-language audiences. Doing it manually means editing the same sermon twice — once per language. Nobody has time.
Missions teams need captions in the target country's language. Google Translate output reads stiff, awkward, and theologically off — not the voice you want representing your church abroad.
Upload a sermon in any of 30+ spoken languages. Get back captioned vertical clips — optionally translated into a second language for export.
Upload your sermon (any spoken language)
Video file, YouTube link, or Vimeo URL. Doesn't matter if the sermon is preached in English, Spanish, Korean, Portuguese, Mandarin, or any other supported language — same upload flow.
AI auto-detects the spoken language
You don't have to tag the language manually. The detector runs across the audio and identifies the primary spoken language — and flags code-switching segments where the speaker shifts between languages mid-sermon.
Transcribed with theology-aware vocabulary
The transcription engine uses a per-language theological vocabulary boost. Terms like 'Espíritu Santo,' '성령,' '圣灵,' or 'Saint-Esprit' resolve to the right spelling — not phonetic approximations. Bible book names and proper nouns are tuned per language.
Burned-in captions in the source language
Captions are formatted following the conventions for the spoken language — Korean line-break rules, Spanish punctuation, CJK character spacing — and burned into vertical 9:16 clips ready for TikTok, Reels, and Shorts.
Optional translation pass (paid)
On paid tiers, export the same clip with captions translated into a target language. English sermon → Spanish-captioned export for your bilingual congregation. Korean sermon → English-captioned export for second-generation members. One upload, two language outputs.
Multilingual sermon clipping is a real need across very different church contexts. Here's where it works best.
Spanish-speaking congregations
The largest US bilingual church segment. Whether you serve an all-Spanish congregation or a bilingual English/Spanish service, Spanish captions are tuned for theological vocabulary — and we have a dedicated workflow at /spanish-sermon-translation.
Korean-language churches
Korean-American congregations have some of the highest digital engagement rates in US church social media. Korean captions follow proper line-break rules (not just naive character-count splits) and handle theological terms like '성령,' '구원,' and '회개' correctly.
Mandarin and Cantonese bilingual services
Many Chinese churches run parallel Mandarin and Cantonese services or code-switch between them. We caption each in its actual spoken form, with proper CJK character spacing and theological vocabulary in both.
Portuguese and Brazilian congregations
Brazilian Portuguese has distinct vocabulary and rhythm from European Portuguese. Captions match the variant actually spoken, with theological vocabulary tuned for both.
Missions content for target countries
Sending sermon content into a target country? Translation passes produce natural, theologically-coherent captions in the target language — not the awkward output you get from Google Translate.
ESL congregations with English sermons
Many ESL members prefer to watch English sermons with captions in their first language. Add a translated caption pass for Vietnamese, Tagalog, Haitian Creole, Arabic — whatever your congregation needs.
30+ supported languages
Spanish, Portuguese, Korean, Mandarin, Cantonese, Vietnamese, Tagalog, Haitian Creole, French, Arabic, Russian, Polish, German, Italian, Japanese, Hindi, Swahili and more — full list in onboarding.
Theology-aware vocabulary per language
Each language has its own tuned theological vocabulary — so terms like 'salvación,' '성령,' '圣灵,' and 'Saint-Esprit' resolve to the correct spelling, not phonetic guesses.
Automatic language detection
No manual language tagging. The detector identifies the spoken language from the audio itself — and handles code-switching by tagging each segment with the language actually being spoken.
Accurate proper nouns and Bible names
Bible book names, prophet and apostle names, and place names are tuned per language so they're spelled correctly — not transliterated by ear into something that won't surface in search.
Translation pass for export (paid)
Paid tiers add a translation pass that exports the same clip with captions in a second target language. English to Spanish, Spanish to English, Korean to English — common bilingual congregation workflows.
Per-language caption formatting
Caption line-break and timing rules differ by language. Korean wraps differently than Spanish; CJK characters need different spacing than Latin script. Each language uses its own formatting rules, not a one-size-fits-all template.
Upload your first sermon in any supported language. Get 5 captioned, vertical clips back. No cost, no commitment.
Get Free ClipsWhich languages do you support for sermon clip captions?
We support 30+ languages out of the box, including Spanish, Portuguese (Brazilian and European), Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, Vietnamese, Tagalog, Haitian Creole, French, Arabic, Russian, Polish, German, Italian, Japanese, Hindi, Swahili, Indonesian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Dutch, and more. The full supported list is shown in onboarding, and the underlying transcription engine adds new languages regularly. If you need a language you don't see, ask us — we can usually enable it.
Can you translate from English to Spanish (or another language) for clip exports?
Yes, on paid tiers. You can export the same clip with captions in the original spoken language and also in a translated target language — so an English sermon can ship with both English-captioned and Spanish-captioned versions of the same clip. This is common for bilingual congregations posting to both English-speaking and heritage-language audiences, and for missions teams sending content into target countries. Translation uses theology-aware models, not generic Google Translate output.
How accurate are non-English sermon captions?
On clear audio, non-English captions land in the 90–95% accuracy range — comparable to our English accuracy. Theological vocabulary is specifically tuned per language: Spanish 'salvación,' 'arrepentimiento,' 'Espíritu Santo'; Korean '성령,' '구원,' '회개'; Mandarin '圣灵,' '救恩'; and equivalents in every supported language. Bible proper nouns, place names, and book names are also tuned per-language so they aren't transliterated as generic phonetic guesses. The biggest accuracy hits come from poor room audio, not language — a lapel mic helps more than anything else.
Do you handle code-switching sermons (English and Spanish mixed in the same sermon)?
Yes. Many bilingual pastors switch between English and Spanish (or English and Korean, English and Mandarin, etc.) within the same sermon — sometimes mid-sentence. Captions are generated per-segment in the actual language being spoken, so an English passage gets English captions and a Spanish passage gets Spanish captions within the same clip. No manual tagging required — the language detector runs continuously across the transcript.