How live khutbah translation works
Minbar does not replace the khutbah - it stays in Arabic, delivered by the imam the way it has always been given. The app runs quietly alongside it and gives the congregation a written translation so that no one has to "miss" the sermon just because they do not understand Arabic yet.
Four steps, seconds apart
- Recording in short chunks. The imam's device (a laptop or a phone) records the khutbah in roughly five-second audio clips and streams them to the server as they arrive.
- Arabic transcription. An Arabic speech-recognition model turns each clip into written Arabic, using classical spelling so that Qur'anic verses and du'ā' stay correct.
- Translation into fourteen languages. The Arabic text is translated in parallel into Swedish, English, Somali, Turkish, German, French, Spanish, Dutch and more. Each listener picks their own language.
- Live delivery over a QR code. The congregation scans the QR poster at the entrance, opens the mosque's page, and reads along - no app to install, no account to create.
What is stored - and what is not
After the sermon, the khutbah remains in the mosque's own archive with the audio, the Arabic text and its translations, so the congregation can revisit it. The audio is processed by AI services solely for transcription and translation.
The imam's voice is never altered, cloned or artificially retransmitted. The translation is a written companion, not a replacement.