LyslideHow do you make bilingual worship slides with romanization or a translation?
Short answerIn the Lyslide editor, press "Romanize / Translate" and add a Romanization or Translation row: every lyric line then gets a line-aligned pronunciation or translation under it. Romanization covers 55 schemes across 13 scripts — Hanyu Pinyin, Zhuyin, Tâi-lô, POJ, Jyutping, Hepburn, Revised Romanization and more — and translation covers 34 languages, looking for a published translation first.
Steps
- Add a romanization row
In the editor's "Romanize / Translate", add a Romanization row and pick the scheme. You choose whether it follows the original or the translation. → Add romanization - Add a translation row
Add a Translation row and pick the target language. AI looks for an existing published translation first and only translates itself when there is none. → Add a translation - Or paste the version your church uses
Switch the source from AI to "Paste" and paste the translation you already have; it is matched line by line, with any unmatched lines laid out for you to fix. → Bring your own translation - Set the stacking order
The original is locked to the top; drag pronunciation and translation into any order below it. The sung line keeps its size and the others can step down. → Stacking order and translation size
Why more than one romanization
- A Taiwanese, Hakka or Cantonese congregation cannot sing from Mandarin Pinyin, which is why Tâi-lô, POJ, Pha̍k-fa-sṳ, Jyutping and Yale are separate choices.
- It also covers Japanese (Hepburn, Kunrei, Nihon-shiki), Korean (RR, McCune–Reischauer, Yale), Thai, Burmese, Khmer, Lao, Amharic, Cyrillic, Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, Hindi and Bengali.
- Schemes that are not yet proofread, or that omit tones, say so where you pick them — one wrong tone is a different word.
- One slide can stack several languages, so a trilingual church does not need three files.