No longer strangers.
Ephesians 2:19Do not be afraid.
Under a second behind the speaker
In weekly use · Vienna · Farsi, German, English, Armenian
During the service
A natural translated voice and live captions on every phone present. Scan a code, pick a language, listen. No app, no account, nothing installed in the building.
A real sermon on the love of Christ, then the same words in English, translated live and spoken in a natural voice that keeps the preacher's tone and rhythm, not as a subtitle.
Recorded at a teaching seminar in Thessaloniki and shared with the preacher's permission. The translation and the voice you hear it in are the live system.
تا مسیح به واسطهٔ ایمان در دلهای شما ساکن شود، و توانایی آن را بیابید که با تمام مقدسین به طول و عرض و عمق و ارتفاع محبت مسیح پی ببرید، و آن محبت را که فراتر از معرفت بشری است بشناسید، تا از همهٔ کمالات خدا آکنده شوید.
So that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, and you may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and depth of Christ's love, and to know that love that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Live translation is becoming table stakes. Sanctavo is the whole journey: understand who you're reaching, welcome the person who walked in for the first time, keep every sermon, and speak to everyone in their own language. For years, not Sundays.
One rule underneath all of it: engagement numbers are anonymous, and they stay separate from pastoral care. A listener becomes known to their church only by explicit opt-in, never by being counted.
Before Sanctavo, I filled in the blanks every Sunday. Not anymore.
Teodi Gregorian, a member of the Vienna congregation where Sanctavo runs every Sunday.
A Live Language Hour is one hour of one language going out live. A one-hour service in two languages uses two, and a 90-minute service uses three. We count 4.35 weeks to a month, because that is what a month is. Listeners, questions, glossary terms and everything your congregation reads afterwards are never metered.
Most of what a plan costs is work somebody was already doing. Writing up a Sunday by hand, a clean transcript, a summary, a blog post, the newsletter, the captions for social, once for every language you serve, is most of a working day, every week. Sanctavo has it drafted before that person gets home.
About 4 services a month — 8.7 Live Language Hours · included in Starter. See the plans
An estimate from your own numbers, not a quote. The top-up under the plans is €20 a month for 5 more live language hours, and room for one more language at the same time.
See Sanctavo running for 60 minutes on your own service, in the languages your church actually needs.
One weekly service of about an hour, in two languages.
Several services a week, or one long service in more languages.
One translation and teaching system across several sites.
Five more live language hours a month, and room for one more language at the same time. Add as many as you need.
Content Studio works from every included live service, plus up to 12 archive hours a month on Starter. Each Press draft uses up to 12 source hours, one output language and at most 45,000 draft words, and arrives ready for your team's own review.
Create your workspace, choose your languages and brand accent, and you're ready in minutes.
Pick source and target languages, go live, and a join QR code is generated instantly.
Everyone scans with any smartphone, chooses a language, and immediately hears the translation.
After the service, download transcripts and audio and review the auto-generated content pack.
A conference, several sites, a language not listed, or a budget that does not match a card: write to us. A person answers, and sets you up by hand either way.
Email us about pricing[email protected]Every service automatically becomes a week of content: a clean transcript, a summary, the full message, a small-group guide, a blog draft, an email newsletter and a social caption, ready to review and publish, in the languages you care about.
This message unfolded how salvation comes by grace through faith, a gift received, not a wage earned. Anchored in Ephesians, with two supporting passages and a closing call to rest in it.
Sanctavo was built in Vienna by a father and son who experienced the language gap in their own church.
Sanctavo is led by its founders and tested in real services every week. Churches work directly with the people responsible for the product, onboarding and support. Every service is backed by infrastructure hosted in the EU and transparent data practices.
For years, we shared one room and one faith. But the message did not always reach everyone.
There was a wall between us that no one had built: language. Some people sat close enough to whisper the translation into one another’s ears, and every sentence had to pass through the pulpit twice. Sermons that moved people often fell silent when Sunday ended.
Some of those messages could have become a study guide, a booklet, or even a book. But they rarely lasted, and rarely crossed a language barrier. Valuable teaching in Farsi, Armenian, German, English, and many other languages remained inside one room simply because others could not understand it, and that loss went in every direction.
We could not accept that the message had to stop there. So we built, tested, and rebuilt.
Then we took Sanctavo beyond our home church, to a multilingual gathering in Thessaloniki. There, people who shared a faith but spoke different languages heard the same sermon at the same time, each in their own language.
Today, Sanctavo translates the message as it is preached and, after the service, helps turn it into a transcript, summary, study guide, booklet, or book draft, so that a church’s voice is not limited to one language or one Sunday.
Sanctavo began in one corner of that room, with a vision for a room that would no longer need that corner.
Contact details are on the Imprint.
A laptop or phone for the speaker's side, either plugged into your sound desk or set near the microphone, and internet. Nothing is installed in the building, and your congregation uses the phones already in their pockets. If your desk has a headphone or line output, that is the best feed.
No. They scan a QR code, choose a language, and listen in the browser. No download, no account, no name. Adding the code to the bulletin or a screen slide is the whole setup on their side.
Every language you switch on runs in parallel, each with its own voice and captions. Your plan sets how many; most churches start with two or three and add one when a group actually arrives.
Listeners are not metered on the paid plans. Larger rooms are configured with you before the first service so we can make sure everything is ready.
The speaker's stream reconnects on its own and listeners rejoin without doing anything; the transcript continues from the reconnection. A wired connection at the desk is steadier than the building's wifi, and it is the one thing worth arranging in advance.
It works with the audio: anything you can feed into a laptop. Direct plug-ins for ProPresenter, OBS or an RTMP stream are not built yet. If that is what you need for your setup, say so in the demo and we will tell you honestly where it stands.
A glossary your team approves carries your names, scripture terms and phrasing into every translation, and a rolling correction pass fixes obvious slips in place. Answers and captions are designed to stay grounded in what was said and not to turn silence into words. Because the system uses AI, errors remain possible, and names, numbers and scripture references are the most likely places.
Sanctavo stores your recordings, transcripts and generated content on infrastructure in Frankfurt, Germany. Live audio and content may be processed by the AI providers and in the locations listed in our public sub-processor register. These providers do not use your service content to train their models. Source audio is off unless you turn it on, transcripts follow the retention window you choose, and a session with everything made from it can be erased in one action.
Up to fifty-seven, depending on voice and caption availability: most arrive as a natural spoken voice, some as a plainer voice, and a few as captions only, because pretending a language sounds good when it does not helps nobody. Tell us the languages in your room and we will tell you which tier each lands in.
The octagon is an old shape in the church: eight sides for the eighth day, the day after the week is done and something new begins. It is the shape of baptisteries and font covers, the place where a person is welcomed in. Inside it, the open V is a voice: rising, reaching out, asking to be heard. And the small gold line at its heart is what happens when it is: the one sentence someone carries home on a Sunday, the word that landed and stayed. That is the whole of Sanctavo in a single drawing, a voice in a holy room, understood by everyone in it, and kept. You will see it drawn large behind the first words of this page.
Both doors are open. Most churches book the free demo first: we set up one of your own services with you and listen together. A church that already knows what it wants can start a plan online from the pricing table; you confirm your email, pay by card, and we still set everything up with you before the first service. Nothing runs, and nothing is charged, until it is ready.
Not answered here? Ask us directly. One of us replies, usually the same day.
Email us a question[email protected]See Sanctavo working on your own service and in your own languages before you decide. We set everything up with you.
Book a free demoWe set it up with you before your service, and open it by hand once everything is ready.
If it is right for your church, translated voice starts at €97 a month. Prefer email? Write to [email protected]