Start from either direction: paste a song in its original language and get the pronunciation and English translation, or paste English lyrics and translate them into another language. Everything stays editable. Each lyric line becomes one slide — original on top, phonetics and English below, white block type on black — ready to project. Download it as PowerPoint or PDF.
Fills the translated lyrics, pronunciation, and English meaning below. Translation sends these lyrics to public Google/MyMemory services. The translation is a meaning draft: it does not match a melody or an existing worship-song arrangement. For singing together, paste the exact lyrics your partner congregation uses.
Choose the language first. Generates English sound cues from language-specific pronunciation rules. The first use downloads language data (about 24 MB); pronunciation then runs on this device. Everything stays editable.
Generate a draft, then check it against a fluent speaker singing the actual song.
ah = father · eh = bet · ee = see · ih = sit · oh = a pure “o” · oo = food · uu = book · uh = about · a = cat.
eye = eye · ay = day · ow = cow · oy = boy.
CAPS = spoken stress. Hyphens separate reading chunks, not beats; keep word spaces. Keep vowels pure, and sustain the vowel on held notes.
ny = canyon · ng = sing (no extra “g”) · sh = ship · zh = measure · th = thin · dh = this.
r = light tongue tap; rr = trill · kh = the rough sound in Scottish “loch” · gh = its voiced version.
ü = say “ee” with rounded lips · ö = say “eh” with rounded lips · eu = “oo” with unrounded lips · ~ = nasal vowel (do not add an “n”).
A colon after a vowel means extra length, not another syllable. (h) means a breathy release. † means an approximation that needs the detailed note below.
English spelling cannot reproduce every sound. Spoken stress and tone help you learn the words; follow the congregation’s melody and timing when singing. Listen to whole phrases so sounds join naturally.
Pronunciation engine: eSpeak NG language rules and limitations, using the Echogarden browser port (GPL-3.0). Sound notation: International Phonetic Association. Mandarin readings: pinyin-pro (MIT). Playback: device speech voices. Translation fallback: MyMemory. English respelling and reading-chunk boundaries are this tool’s approximations, not an official transcription standard.
The title is slide 1; each original lyric line makes the next slide. Keep the same verse breaks in all three boxes, or use one row per lyric with no verse breaks. Leave a blank row for a missing pronunciation or meaning; later rows keep their place.
Line counts don’t match — slides missing a pronunciation or translation will leave that part blank.
Playback speaks the original lyrics, not the English sound cues. It demonstrates speech, not a sung melody.
Recording stays in this tab and is not embedded in downloads. Use its player to follow the singer’s melody, vowels, and phrasing.