Türkçe → German

Turkish khutbah, read along in German.

Miskio translates the Turkish khutbah live into German - sentence by sentence on the screen of your mosque, in under a second. The congregation listens to the imam and reads the Friday sermon along in German, without an app and without headsets.

  • Under 1 second latency
  • Recognises Turkish & Arabic switching
  • Free trial access

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Why a German translation if the sermon is in Turkish?

Because the Turkish of the hutbe is not everyday Turkish. The language of the sermon is formal and shaped by religion - full of terms the second and third generation rarely hear. Many young people speak Turkish at home and still lose the thread after a few minutes.

With the German text on the wall, the whole congregation stays with it: the older generation listens to the imam, the younger one reads along in German - and, for the first time, guests, converts or in-laws without Turkish are not left out.

How does live translation from Turkish work?

Someone from the mosque opens the operator app in the browser and starts the recording - that is all the technology it takes. Miskio recognises the spoken Turkish, translates each sentence in real time on servers in the EU and shows it on the wall in under a second, calmly paced so that it is easy to read along.

A full khutbah is typically 20 to 40 minutes of audio time - even the Basis plan, with five hours a month, covers every Friday, and there is free trial access to try it out.

Isn’t the hutbe already available in German to read?

Yes. DITIB publishes the Friday sermon in German every week as well, in its sermon archive on ditib.de; other federations put their texts online too. Anyone searching for “cuma hutbesi Almanca” or “hutbe almanca” will find it there. For reading at home, that is a good help.

What a published text cannot do is the moment itself: the congregation sits in the prayer hall, the imam speaks, and the text has to be readable now. Miskio translates what is actually said in your mosque - sentence by sentence. And the summary in the archive gives the congregation something to read afterwards that belongs to your khutbah.

What happens with Arabic recitations in the middle of a Turkish sermon?

Miskio detects the language switch automatically and keeps translating - nobody has to change anything. Almost every Turkish khutbah moves into Arabic at some point: for a surah, a supplication, a hadith.

Recognised Qur’an verses do not appear as machine text but in the established German translation by Bubenheim & Elyas - so that the word on the wall does justice to the word from the minbar.

Do the Turkish terms your congregation uses stay as they are?

Yes. A standard glossary with the Islamic terms and formulas of Turkish is built in on every plan. From the Pro plan, you decide in your mosque’s own glossary which terms Miskio leaves as they are or translates consistently - for example sadaqa instead of the German “Almosen”, or the name of your association. The translation then sounds like your congregation, not like a dictionary.

For the congregation

Not on the board? No problem.

Most people who look for a German translation of the khutbah are members of the congregation - not the people who decide on purchases. The way there is still short. In our experience, a board asks three questions:

“What does it cost?”
The trial is free: four weeks on the Max plan, without payment details. After that Basis costs €29 a month and Pro €49 - cancel monthly, nothing to buy.
“What do we have to buy?”
Nothing. You need a screen or projector, which most mosques already have, and a device for the microphone signal. No headsets, no receivers, nothing to hand out and collect.
“Who is going to run it every Friday?”
One person, one click to start. We do the first setup together with you - free and without obligation, ideally with a real khutbah as a test.

Every generation.One Friday.

Bring the khutbah onto your wall - so that the second and third generation understand what it is about.

or by email: team@miskio.de