The console is the one screen you operate during a service. Everything else in Live Translation is preparation for it.
Before the service
- Open Live Translation on the machine connected to your audio. It opens on the Console tab — the other tabs are Settings and History.
- On the Console, in Where does the sound come from?, set Feed to Sound desk input and pick the Device that carries your sound desk mix. (This device’s audio captures a window or tab instead, and needs Chrome or Edge.) Go live stays unavailable until an input is chosen.
- Check your languages are set the way you want them — see Choose translation languages.
- Share the caption link or QR code with whoever needs it — see Share a caption link.
- Speak a few words and check that the Level meter in Where does the sound come from? says Speaking. Captions only appear once you go live, so for a full test go live for a minute, check them, and end the session.
Going live
Press Go live. That single button opens the session, connects the captioning engine and publishes captions to everyone reading along. There is nothing else to press.
During the service
- Watch the captions on the console. If they stop, the audio has stopped reaching the console — check that before anything else.
- Nonsense captions almost always mean poor audio, not a broken translation. Look at levels and microphone routing.
- Names and unusual words can be taught in advance under Settings → Captions → Custom vocabulary, which is worth doing for the ones your church says every week.
- Keep the Console’s browser tab open. You can move to other pages in SynaiConnect while captions run, but closing the tab or the laptop stops them; screens keep showing the last line.
Keyboard shortcuts
- ⌘D on a Mac, Ctrl+D on Windows — mute or unmute the microphone. Captions pause while it is muted, and muted time is not charged. A session muted for 10 minutes ends on its own, like any silent session.
- ⌘↵ on a Mac, Ctrl+Enter on Windows — go live. While live, the same keys ask whether to end the session: press Enter to end it, or Esc to keep it running.
- The shortcuts work while the Console is on screen, and not while you are typing in a field.
Ending the session
Press End session (or ⌘↵ / Ctrl+Enter), then confirm. Captions stop on every screen and phone, and the transcript is saved to History.