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.
Example: JEE-zuhs. Say the capitalized part more strongly. Hyphens separate syllable-sized reading chunks; spaces separate words.
ah = father · a = cat · eh = bed · ee = see · ih = sit
oh = go · oo = food · uu = book · uh = cup / about · aw = saw
ay = day · eye = eye · ow = cow · oy = boy · er / ur = her
sh = ship · ch = church · j = jump · zh = the middle of measure
ng = sing (no extra g) · ny = canyon · th = thin · dh = this
kh = the rough sound in Scottish “loch”; start with h and copy your singing partner. gh = the same rough sound with your voice turned on. rr = a rolled r. Other unfamiliar sounds are explained in the coach notes.
This follows familiar English dictionary-style respelling, adapted for plain text with CAPS for stress. It is not IPA or an exact copy of one dictionary’s notation. Foreign sounds without an English equivalent get a readable approximation here and an explanation below. Mandarin tones, vowel length, nasal vowels, and other precision marks stay in the coach notes.
Sing the vowels clearly and follow your partner’s melody. Hyphens are reading aids, not musical beats; spoken stress does not set the rhythm of a song.
Respelling reference: Dictionary.com’s guide for English readers. Translation language codes: Google’s language list (the public service used here may have different availability). 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.
Use this for Darija, Hakha Chin, Tajik or Thai pronunciation, Japanese readings, or any line needing a better draft. Copy the request into your AI assistant or give it to a translator. Paste the returned JSON below to fill the existing lyric boxes. An AI response remains a draft until a fluent singer checks it.
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.