Ramadan and Eid: translating sermons and talks live

Anything where one person speaks and there is a microphone signal. For starting a session there are title presets as quick picks, by default Freitagsgebet (Friday prayer), Eid-Predigt (Eid sermon) and Vortrag (talk). The mosque adds its own, for example for Tarawih, and the title appears on the wall and in the archive. In practice this means:

• The Friday khutbah - every week in Ramadan too.
• The Eid sermon for Eid al-Fitr (Ramazan Bayramı) and Eid al-Adha (Kurban Bayramı).
• Talks and discussion circles during Ramadan, for example before iftar.
• Other community events where guests should be able to read along.

Only the streamed audio time while a translation is running counts. Looking at the wall, the archive or the phone view does not. A full khutbah session is roughly 20 to 40 minutes.

If you want to translate a talk every evening during Ramadan on top of the Fridays, it is best to do the sums first: 30 evenings of 40 minutes are 20 hours, plus the Fridays. That is what the Max plan is for. You can see your usage in the app at any time. Once the quota is used up, the event that is running carries on to the end, but no new one can be started that month. So plan the month in advance (all plans).

Ramadan 2027 is expected to begin around 8 February, Eid al-Fitr follows around 9 and 10 March, and Eid al-Adha falls in May. The exact days are set by the religious communities after moon sighting or by calculation.

More important than the date is the lead time: set up the wall, the microphone and the first session a few weeks ahead and test them with a real sermon - not on the first evening. We are happy to help with the setup.

On the holidays the mosque is fuller than usual, and families bring guests. Two things help then: a screen in side rooms or the women’s section (the wall is a web page that can be opened on further screens) and the phone view via QR code (from the Pro plan) for everyone standing further back or outside - the code comes as a print-ready A4 sheet to put up. Everyone chooses their language there - German, English or Arabic (multilingual output).

Like every khutbah translation, the translation of the Eid sermon is a machine translation and is labelled as such on the wall.