AI will translate church services at the Vatican in real time
The Vatican's St. Peter's Basilica has partnered with translation services company Translated to use its AI tool Lara to create real-time translations of services in 60 languages.
The Vatican's St. Peter's Basilica has partnered with translation services company Translated to use its AI tool Lara to create real-time translations of services in 60 languages.
“St. Peter’s Basilica has welcomed faithful from all countries and languages for centuries. By providing a tool that helps many to understand the words of the liturgy, we want to serve the mission that defines the center of the Catholic Church, universal in its vocation,” said Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, OFM Conv., Archbishop of St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican.
According to him, the Vatican "looks to the future with caution and prudence."
Visitors to the Vatican will be able to scan a QR code. They will then have access to real-time audio and text translations of the liturgy. No app is required, everything works directly on the website.
The translations will be created by Lara, an artificial intelligence translation tool that Translated released in 2024. The company claims that Lara works with “the sensitivity of over 500,000 professional native translators.”
“Lara delivers more accurate, natural, and reliable translations than the average professional translator. Early estimates of the new model, scheduled for 2026, predict that it will reach and surpass linguistic singularity — when AI matches the quality of the top 1% of professional translators,” Translated says .
The company says that LAra analyzes the entire text or document to understand the relationships between sentences and ensure “a natural flow and consistency throughout the translation.” Understanding context allows for a better representation of the original and increases readability.
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