Your achen preaches in Malayalam. The second generation, the visitors and the livestream read along in English, in real time — and on Monday the sermon comes back as a summary, a discussion guide and a recap written in Malayalam.
These are real errors from real services — what a generic system produces, and what a congregation should actually be reading.
| Generic captioning hears | It should say | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| Fire Master | Choir Master | The person who leads your choir |
| Dyson Constitution | Diocesan Constitution | Read at every annual general body |
| CSA Senate | CSI Synod | Not a senate. Every CSI church knows this |
| Sree Jana Sakhya | Sthree Jana Sakhyam | The women's fellowship |
| KCET | KCD | Karnataka Central Diocese |
| Shilohankulam | Siloam | The pool in John 9 |
| Romans 55 | Isaiah 55 | Romans has no chapter 55 |
| the alphabet | the epistle | The reading before the Gospel |
None of these are exotic words. They are the ordinary furniture of a Malayalam service, and they are exactly what a system built on American podcasts has never encountered.
Malayalam-speaking congregations are not one thing. A CSI parish, a Mar Thoma one, an Orthodox or Syro-Malabar parish and a Pentecostal assembly share a language and very little vocabulary.
A Synod, never a senate. Dioceses with a Diocesan Council, a Constitution and Bylaws. Sthree Jana Sakhyam, Sunday School with a Superintendent, SCF, Youth Fellowship. Hymns from Jnana Keerthanam; lyrics from Kristeeya Geetham.
Led by a Metropolitan, addressed as Thirumeni. A Bhadrasanam rather than a diocese. Sevika Sanghom and Yuvajana Sakhyam. The Maramon Convention. Hymns from Kristheeya Keerthanangal.
Koodaasha, Valiyapally, Achen, Qurbana. Liturgical vocabulary that a general-purpose model has essentially never seen written down, let alone spoken in a Kerala accent.
A Pastor and a local assembly rather than a parish and a vicar. Sisters' Fellowship, Youth Fellowship, convention meetings. Plainer structure, and its own set of names.
Your parish adds its own: the places your members live, the programmes you run, the families whose names get read out. Those go in once and are remembered every Sunday after.
For the members who read Malayalam more comfortably than English. It is written fresh in Malayalam from the sermon itself — not a machine translation of the English summary — so it reads like something a person wrote.
Automatic translation is not perfect, and a Malayalam sermon is a hard case: fast speech, long compound words, English and Malayalam in the same sentence, and proper nouns no model has been trained on.
What we do promise is that you are not stuck with its mistakes. Every line is checked in context before it reaches a screen, anything still wrong can be corrected in one tap on every display at once — including from a helper's phone in the pew — and the fix is remembered for every service after.
Book a free demo before you decide — no card, no commitment. We will run it on your own service audio, with your parish's names already in front of it.