Language should never be a barrier to a shared moment.

Every week, billions of people gather — for worship, for learning, for ideas worth spreading. And every week, millions are left behind because the room only speaks one language.

Vonal is a small team of engineers and event producers building real-time translation that a volunteer can run. We pair frontier speech models with transport built for the public internet, so a speaker on any stage can be understood in the languages their room actually speaks.

We started with churches, because that's where the language gap shows up every single week. We're now used in classrooms and conferences too.