What's New

Translation no longer drops out after a long silence

In long sessions, the translation could quietly stop after an extended stretch with no speech, such as the break between services, while the captions in the speaker's language kept flowing. The service now watches for exactly that condition and renews its connection to the speech engine within seconds, so listeners get their translation back without anyone touching the studio. Sessions that run past five hours are now handed to a fresh connection before the engine's limit instead of going silent while the session still shows as live. Selah Studio for Mac 2.0.9 shows a brief notice when either happens and reconnects on its own if the connection to the speech engine is lost.

Session Analytics (Beta): see how every session performed

You asked for a way to look back at a service or event and know what actually happened. Every session now has its own analytics page in the web studio and in Selah Studio for Mac, and when a session of five minutes or more ends, a recap card appears in the sidebar with a one-click link to the full picture. Open Analytics under Manage to start with your last 30 days at a glance, then open any session.

• Your audience over time: how many people were watching minute by minute, the peak, how many stayed to the end, when they joined, and whether they were on phones, tablets or computers.
• Captions at a glance: lines and words spoken, speaking pace, time to the first caption, the longest silence, and the languages you offered.
• Session quality: reconnects, degraded stretches, how the session ended and which microphone was in use, drawn from the diagnostics Selah already collects.
• Every number carries a change against your previous session, and the 30-day overview compares against the 30 days before it.
• Viewer counts are recorded from today onward, so older sessions show everything except the audience charts.

Low latency subtitles on every plan

"Low latency subtitles" is no longer limited to trial and Professional accounts. Every plan, Basic included, can switch it on from the studio sidebar and get captions on screen roughly twice as fast, with the AI voice keeping its natural pacing. Still in beta, and worth trying for fast speakers.

Sign in with Google and Apple in Selah Studio for Mac

The Mac app's sign-in screen now offers Sign in with Google and Sign in with Apple, matching the web studio. If your Selah account was created with either, you can sign in on the Mac the same way, with no password to set. Version 2.0.7 (13) arrives automatically through the app's built-in updater, or from the Downloads page.

Live transcript for listeners (Beta)

Switch on "Live transcript for listeners" in the studio sidebar and your audience sees the words appear as they are spoken, rather than waiting for each finished line. The completed caption still arrives underneath a moment later, translated as usual, so nothing is lost. It is off by default, you can turn it on or off in the middle of a service, and it works on the web listener link today, with the iPhone app to follow.

You can see when the studio is listening

Starting a session now moves from Connecting to Listening to Live. Listening means the microphone and the speech engine are ready and simply waiting for someone to speak, so a quiet room before the service no longer looks like a stalled connection.

Stop a session while it is still connecting

The Stop button now works during startup. If a connection is taking longer than expected, or you started by mistake, you can cancel straight away and everything unwinds cleanly, with no broadcast link left open behind it.

Selah Studio for Mac (Beta)

Our native macOS app is here in beta. Run your whole service from a Mac: real-time captions and translation in 30+ languages, spoken translation, native full-screen outputs for ProPresenter, OBS, and vMix, echo cancellation and noise suppression tuned for live rooms, and an interface localized in 10 languages. It updates itself in the background, so you install it once. Requires macOS 14 or later.

Minor fixes and improvements

More dependable profanity filtering across languages, applied to captions, translations, and the AI voice. Custom blocked words now work in every alphabet, including Cyrillic, Arabic, Chinese, and Korean. Plus small stability improvements under the hood.

Low Latency Mode (Beta)

Turn on "Low latency subtitles" in the studio sidebar and captions reach the screen roughly twice as fast, in shorter phrases that break at natural pauses, for live events where every second on screen counts. The AI voice keeps its natural pacing, so captions and voice stay in step. Included on every plan since September 13.

The Selah Translate iPhone app is on the App Store

Our native iPhone app for listeners is out of beta and free to download. Scan a QR code or enter a handle, pick a language, and follow along with live captions and the AI voice. Audio keeps playing with the screen locked, and the app reconnects on its own after a network dip.

A steadier voice during music

During worship or other repeated audio, the translation voice no longer reads the same line again and again. It says it once and waits for something new, while captions continue as normal.

Smoother listening on iPhone

Fixed several iPhone-specific issues that could silence the voice after the first few lines, and the screen now stays awake while a live broadcast is open, so listening isn't cut short by auto-lock.

Listener audio that recovers on its own

If a listener's phone briefly loses its connection during a service, the spoken translation now reconnects by itself and picks up where it left off, in order, instead of going quiet until the page was refreshed. Captions and voice stay together.

Idle session check

If a session keeps running with no speech for a full hour, the studio now asks whether you're still streaming, and gently stops the session if nobody answers. Forgot to hit stop after service? Your monthly minutes are protected.

Teams

Bring your whole team onto one account. Invite your volunteers and tech-booth operators, share one plan and one public broadcast link, and hand off cleanly between services, with no shared passwords and no separate subscriptions. Available on Professional and Enterprise.

Follow along with the spoken line

As the AI voice reads each translation, the matching caption now highlights in time with it, so listeners can see exactly where you are, even in a fast-moving service.

Transparent display backgrounds

Caption displays can now be set to a transparent background, so you can drop them straight into VMix, OBS, or any video switcher as a clean overlay, no green-screen keying needed.

More listening languages at once

Expanded secondary-language translation so a single broadcast can reach more languages together, with extra headroom for larger congregations.

AI voice stays in sync

We reworked how translated audio is paced, so the AI voice keeps step with the speaker and the on-screen captions, plays at a natural pace instead of rushing to catch up, and no longer drifts further behind over a full-length service.

Sharper, faster captions

Upgraded live transcription to our latest speech model for more accurate captions with less delay.

Selah Translate Mobile for iPhone (Beta)

A native iOS app for listeners. Scan a QR code or enter a handle, pick your language, and hear the live AI voice. Now rolling out in TestFlight.

Automatic reconnection

Live sessions now recover on their own through brief network drops, so a momentary Wi-Fi dip no longer cuts your translation short.

Keep listening with the screen off

Audio keeps playing when your phone locks, and resumes automatically after a call or other interruption.

AI voice for every listener

Broadcasts now stream high-quality AI voice straight to listeners' devices, with nothing extra to set up.

New guides on the blog

Fresh articles to help you set up and run great live translation.

Voice-output indicator

A floating indicator shows when the AI voice is speaking, so you always know it is working.

Live status page

Launched a public status page so you can check service health and uptime any time.