Voco

What is Voco?

Voco is live sermon translation for churches. Spoken audio becomes translated text on the phones already in the room, in 200+ languages, with no attendee app.

What Voco does

The church starts a live session from the dashboard and uses a laptop microphone, a phone microphone, or a sound-desk feed. Voco turns that speech into live text and translation, then sends it to the congregation reader. Attendees scan a QR code, choose a language, and follow in real time. A display URL can be opened in OBS as a Browser Source, or in ProPresenter as a Web Item, so translations appear as live lower thirds. Missed text is stored server-side and delivered when an attendee reconnects.

Who Voco is for

Churches welcoming multilingual families, international students, refugees, and deaf or hard-of-hearing attendees. The about page also names diaspora churches, city congregations welcoming new arrivals, households that would otherwise need a family member to interpret, international student churches, and smaller churches without a production team.

How Voco works

Use the audio you already have: a phone on the lectern, a laptop mic, or a sound desk or USB interface. Put the QR code on a screen, in the bulletin, or on a welcome slide. People open the link in any browser, choose a language, and read along. Font size, theme, and text-to-speech controls are on the reader. Press Start in the dashboard. Voco listens live, turns speech into text, and delivers translated lines while the sermon is happening. A three-stage pipeline turns spoken words into translated text through speech recognition, neural translation, and delivery. The profanity filter is always on, and word boost can teach a pastor name, a church name, and biblical terms.

Key features

• 200+ languages, including Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Mandarin, Farsi, Arabic, Yoruba, Tagalog, and regional variants.
• No attendee app and no attendee account. The reader opens in the phone browser, with font size, theme, and text-to-speech controls.
• Profanity filter and word boost, plus a built-in theological glossary for names, scripture terms, and church language.
• OBS Browser Source and ProPresenter Web Item for live lower thirds. The page says zero plugins.
• Reconnect logic stores missed text server-side and delivers it when the attendee reconnects, including after WiFi drops.
• Transcript export. Stored transcripts are retained for 90 days and then deleted. Sermon audio is streamed for transcription and translation and is not kept as a permanent recording.
• Signal API for Stream Deck and AV remotes on Voco Pro. Guided setup and rehearsal are part of the trial.
• Voco Grace Promise: no mid-service cut-off. Plans describe the normal rhythm, and occasional visitors, longer services, and one-off church events are fine.

Pricing

As listed on voco.church, checked 13 October 2026. Prices can change; see the site for current terms.

• 7-day free trial, no card. The trial ends without an automatic charge.
• Voco Starter is £6 per week or £24/month for one main weekly service, 1-2 regular language groups, all 200+ languages, unlimited attendees, a QR code, a church link, and a transcript. The pricing page lists about 90 min of weekly live usage.
• Voco Church is £12 per week or £48/month for multiple Sunday services plus the odd midweek, about 5 live hours a week as guidance, OBS, ProPresenter, and 3 team seats.
• Voco Pro is £22 per week or £88/month for regular midweek meetings, small groups, event weekends, unlimited live hours, the Signal API, and unlimited team seats.
• Annual billing costs less than twelve monthly payments. Approximate equivalents are Starter £19/month (£228/year), Church £38/month (£456/year), and Pro £70/month (£840/year).
• No contracts. Cancel any time. Weekly billing remains available. Stripe checkout and invoices remain in GBP. Plan changes normally take effect at the start of the next billing period.
• Voco Network is a custom plan for campuses, conferences, high-volume events, and networks. Conferences, camps, and multi-day gatherings can ask about an event pack.
• The home page says no seat limits. The pricing page lists up to 3 team seats on Church and unlimited team seats on Pro. Voco does not charge by attendee.

Facts from voco.church, checked 13 October 2026

• The about page names Josh Stannard as founder.
• Voco is from the Latin for to call or to invite, and the about page says it is unrelated to voco hotels.
• The about page says machine translation is not magic, and it tells churches to stay plainspoken about limits and tradeoffs.
• Voco does not charge by attendee, and it does not stop a service halfway through because a sermon runs long or a guest needs another language.

Written from Voco's own website (Homepage, Pricing, Features, About). The maker can claim this listing to edit it.