Oral Translation
Tools for recording, managing, reviewing, and publishing oral Bible translations — from first draft to community distribution.
Expert Advice
What experienced translators recommend
Audio Project Manager and Render are your core pair — APM handles project management and QA while Render is purpose-built for oral drafting.
Record in a quiet space with minimal echo; even a small room treated with blankets makes a significant difference.
Use Akuo for iterative community review — publish early drafts and collect feedback before finalizing.
HearThis integrates directly with Paratext, making it ideal for projects that combine written and oral work.
Scripture App Builder lets you package and virally distribute audio recordings as a mobile app.
Quickstart Tools
Tools by process stage
Recommended tools grouped by Bible translation process stage.
Core tools for drafting, recording, and managing oral Bible translation projects.
Audio Project Manager
Audio Project Manager
Audio Project Manager is a web or desktop application that simplifies the management speech audio files, providing solutions for oral Bible translation, oral drafting, storying and general transcription projects.
Free (Unrestricted)
Render
Render
Render is a software that guides oral communicators in producing oral Scripture for their own language group. Render was designed to achieve the translation goal of 'publish early, publish often' with the ability to produce a consultant approved portion of Scripting in weeks that can then be shared with the community in an audio file.
Free (Restricted)
HearThis
HearThis
Using HearThis, communities record and distribute audio of their translated scripture, for themselves. They don't wait until the translation is all done, or wait until they are fluent readers. They don't wait until technicians can come and run recording sessions. They make Audio Scripture available in their own languages. Learning to record with HearThis takes only minutes.
Free (Unrestricted)
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