Urdu Church Sermon Translation with Right to Left Captions

Pakistani churches and their children

Urdu-speaking congregations abroad often worship in Urdu and Punjabi while their children read English. Urdu preaching with English captions serves both in one service, and Punjabi can be added as a caption language or used as the speaker language.

What Sermon Translate does in Urdu

Urdu works in both directions: a preacher can speak Urdu into the app, and members can read the sermon in Urdu.

• There is no built-in Urdu church vocabulary yet. Bible references and church terms are translated with church context rather than matched to a standard Urdu form, so add your key names and terms to the church glossary.
• Verse popups cannot show the passage in Urdu yet, because the Bible editions connected today cover only English, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, Farsi / Persian, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese.
• Urdu captions are laid out right to left.

The honest part

Urdu has no built-in church vocabulary in the app yet, not even Bible book names, so references are translated rather than matched to the names an Urdu Bible uses. The church glossary is the fix: add the Urdu book names and church terms your congregation uses, once.

• Urdu to English captions
• English to Urdu captions, right to left
• Glossary entries for Bible books, titles and ministries in Urdu

Try it with your own preacher

Run the free 3-hour trial with a real sermon and a native reader, and fix the words that come out wrong in the glossary before the first Sunday.

Are Urdu Bible book names built in?

No. Add the Urdu names you use to the church glossary and every translation will follow them.

Is Punjabi supported?

Yes. Punjabi can be the speaker language or a caption language.

Does the app speak the translation aloud?

No. It shows text captions only.