During a song, a prayer or anything else you do not want translated, pause translation. Nothing is translated, and your translation time does not count, until you resume.
- When the song or prayer starts, press Pause translation on the Console, next to Clear and Resync.
- The status line says Translation paused, and your translation time shows paused. Captions and translated audio stop on every screen and phone, and phones show Captions are paused.
- When the speaking starts again, press Resume translation. You can speak straight away: the first words are kept while captions reconnect, and they are back within a few seconds.
If captions do not come back after Resume translation, press Resync, or see The session is live but there are no captions.
Good to know
- The session stays live while it is paused: the same QR code, the same links and one transcript. There is no need to end it and go live again.
- A pause can last up to 45 minutes. The Console warns you two minutes before; after that the session ends on its own, and History shows Pause limit as the reason.
- ⌘D on a Mac, or Ctrl+D on Windows, pauses and resumes translation while the Console is on screen and you are not typing in a field.
- In a narrow window, Pause translation, Clear and Resync show as icons only. Hover over one to see its name.
- Mute voice, on the Phones preview, is different: it stops only the translated audio on phones, captions continue, and your translation time keeps counting.