What's New
The story of Selah Translate, one improvement at a time. We ship updates constantly to make live translation clearer, faster, and more reliable.
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August 2026
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August 2026
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 trial and Professional plans.
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.
Get it on the App StoreJuly 2026
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.
June 2026
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.
Read the blogVoice-output indicator
A floating indicator shows when the AI voice is speaking, so you always know it is working.
May 2026
Live status page
Launched a public status page so you can check service health and uptime any time.
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