Romanian to Ukrainian, live, on the phone in their pocket
Someone who arrived in 2022 has been sitting through Romanian services, lessons and meetings for years now, following about a third of it. This puts the whole thing in their language, in their own earbuds, without anybody having to be handed a device at the door.
The people who grew up here, and the people who arrived
Ukrainian in Romania is not one situation. In Maramureș, Suceava and parts of the Banat there are communities that have been Ukrainian-speaking for generations and are comfortable in both languages — for them a translated channel is a courtesy and a convenience. For families who came after February 2022 it is often the difference between attending and understanding. The same broadcast serves both, because nobody has to declare which group they are in: they open a link and choose a language, and no account, no name and no registration is involved.
- Scripture from a published Ukrainian Bible, on a worship account
- Captions in Cyrillic, at a text size the reader sets
- No app and no account for the listener
- Romanian captions on the same broadcast, for anyone learning
- Bible translation named
- Ohienko
- Script
- Cyrillic
- What a listener needs
- A browser
- Free on signup
- 30 credits
Where this pair actually gets used
Rooms where the speaker is Romanian and a real part of the room is not.
Churches hosting refugee families
On a worship account a quoted verse comes out in the wording of a published Ukrainian Bible rather than a fresh paraphrase, which is what makes a passage recognisable to somebody who grew up hearing it.
Schools and parent evenings
A parent evening is one voice to a room, which is the case this handles best. The parent reads or listens in Ukrainian and does not have to bring a relative to translate.
Local authorities and aid briefings
Nothing identifies a listener and no account is created, which matters when the subject is documents, housing or benefits. It does not replace an interpreter somebody is legally entitled to.
Common questions
Do people need to install anything or say who they are?
No. They open a link or scan a QR code in their phone's browser, type a six-character code and pick Ukrainian. No app, no account, no name. For someone still sorting out documents in a new country, that absence is the point.
How are Bible quotations handled in Ukrainian?
The model is told to reproduce a quoted verse in the wording of the Ohienko translation rather than re-translating the speaker's paraphrase of it. Ukrainian is one of five languages for which a specific published translation is named; for the rest the instruction is to use standard published wording without naming an edition.
Can we also caption in Romanian at the same time?
Yes, and it is a separate switch. Captions in the language actually being spoken are for people in the room who are hard of hearing, and for anyone learning Romanian who wants to see the words while they hear them. They take none of your five output-language slots.
Can one of our Ukrainian speakers do the translating instead?
Yes, with two things set up first: an admin switches Ukrainian on for interpretation in the org settings, and the person needs a seat in your organization. After that they open an interpreter page, take Ukrainian and speak it. Listeners on that language hear them by default and can switch to the AI at any time. While they stay with the person no AI runs on that language, so you pay the connection rather than the translation.
Try it on this Sunday's service
30 free credits, no card. Enough to hear your own speaker in Ukrainian before you decide anything.