Preached in one language. Heard in another. In real time.
Korean to English and English to Korean, built for how preaching actually sounds: the verse citations, the verb that arrives last, the vocabulary of the Korean church.
Generic translators break in church.
Korean and English are among the hardest pairs for a machine, in either direction, and a sermon is the worst place to get it wrong.
Scripture gets re-translated from scratch.
The congregation hears a paraphrase of a paraphrase, not the verse printed in their own Bible.
The sentence gets cut in half.
Korean puts the verb at the end. Generic tools translate before the meaning has arrived.
The theology flattens out.
A phrase that means "God is at work" comes back literal, and the meaning is gone.
Built for the sermon, not the sentence.
It quotes the verse. It doesn't guess it.
When your pastor cites scripture, even through a rough microphone, Shema recognizes the reference and anchors the English to the actual passage.
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son…"
…
It waits for the meaning to arrive.
Korean holds its verb to the end, and preachers hold it longer for effect. Shema reads the sentence endings and knows a pause from a full stop.
It runs both directions on the same Sunday.
Korean into English for the second generation; English into Korean when a guest preacher takes the pulpit. Both know the Korean church's own vocabulary.
When it isn't sure, it stays quiet.
Every line is checked against the last few minutes of the sermon. If confidence is low it waits rather than invents. No fabricated theology.
His grace is here among us.
Nothing changes at the pulpit.
Everything changes in the pews.
The pastor preaches.
No new lapel mic, no pausing for an interpreter, nothing different from a normal Sunday.
Shema listens and translates.
The sermon is recognized, translated, and spoken back in a natural voice in about two seconds: Korean into English, or English into Korean.
The congregation listens.
Earbuds, the receiver packs from the welcome desk, or a link on their phone, with the transcript to read along.
Works with the setup you already run.
No new sound system, no hardware to buy. Shema takes the audio you already send out, and the translation comes back on whatever your congregation already listens through.
Pulls straight from your livestream feed.
Or a direct feed from the board your team already mixes.
English routes to the earpiece packs you already hand out.
Or a link on their phone, their own earbuds. No app store.
Shema doesn't replace the pastor's voice. It carries it to everyone in the room.
Bring it to your church.
A human interpreter runs $200–500 a Sunday and covers one language. Tell us about your congregation and we'll set up a live demo service. No cost, no commitment.
Prefer email? shematranslate@gmail.com
More languages coming soon
Each new language gets tuned to how preaching actually sounds in that tongue, the same way Shema was built for Korean.