Streamlingo vs Voco

Nobody has to bring headphones

Streamlingo's model assumes the listener has headphones with them. In practice a meaningful share of visitors do not, and asking someone to sit through a sermon holding a phone to their ear is not realistic. Voco's text-first approach works with nothing but the phone already in their pocket, silently, without disturbing the person next to them.

The same feature serves deaf and hard-of-hearing attendees

Because Voco is text-first, the same live output that serves a Spanish speaker also serves a deaf or hard-of-hearing member reading in English. An audio-led product cannot do that. For most churches this doubles the return on the same subscription, and it is why Voco publishes dedicated guidance for deaf and hard-of-hearing use.

No live-time meter

Streamlingo describes included AI-translation and listening allowances, followed by fair usage charges if a service runs long. Voco is £6/week for Starter and £12/week for Church with no live-time cap, so the cost does not climb as usage does. Compare on your real monthly hours rather than a headline rate.

Projection, transcripts and scripture handling

Voco's Church plan includes OBS and ProPresenter output for on-screen captions, plus bilingual transcript export afterwards, and detects spoken scripture references to insert the officially published translation. Streamlingo does not describe these.

AI voice as the main event

Streamlingo is built around spoken output — guests listen rather than read. For congregations where people speak a language more comfortably than they read it, which is common with several diaspora languages and with older attendees, listening is the better experience. Voco's phone text-to-speech is a secondary route rather than the design centre.

A two-hour trial

Streamlingo's one-time two-hour trial is long enough to rehearse and run a normal service, with no card required. Voco's trial lasts seven days rather than using an hour allowance. Both provide a practical test; Streamlingo gives the clearer amount of live audio.

A public hourly benchmark

Streamlingo says its annually billed Small plan averages about €10 per hour. The live plan totals are loaded dynamically, but publishing an hourly benchmark still helps a church estimate the cost of audio-first translation against its real service schedule.