How Read-Live works

1. 1Open read-live.me and click Create a free account (or Sign up at the top of the page).
2. 2Enter your name, your e-mail address and your organisation — for example the name of your mosque or association — and a few words about how you will use Read-Live. Then click Create account.
3. 3Open the e-mail from [email protected] and click the link. It confirms your address and lets you choose your password. The link works once and is valid for 7 days.
4. 4Sign in with Log in on the home page. You arrive on the microphone page, ready for your first talk.

No e-mail? Check your spam folder, or ask for it again on the sign-in page.

• Status — Idle, Connecting... or Live: you always see whether the microphone is on air.
• Credits — your balance. Click it to top up.
• Settings — switches between the live view and the settings of your session.
• Your account menu — the round button with your initial: My Sessions, Credits, Support, the app language and Logout.

• Session Code — your organisation's prefix plus a word of your choice, for example juma or ramadan. Use small letters: this is the code your audience scans or types.
• Language — what the speaker speaks. Choose up to three languages if the speaker switches between them, or Auto if you are not sure.
• Microphone — the microphone or sound card that hears the speaker.
• Topic / Context — a few words about the talk, for example “Friday sermon about patience”. They help with names, special terms and the summary.
• Target Languages — up to six languages your audience reads. You can change them during the talk; the next sentence follows the change.
• Translation engine — best left on the server default. The labels say which model is fastest or most accurate; the cost shows how quickly it uses your credits.

1. 1Click Start microphone and allow the microphone when the browser asks.
2. 2Speak as usual. The Live Output panel shows what was heard. Each sentence is translated as soon as it is complete, so your audience reads whole sentences.
3. 3Use Session Status to tell the audience where you are: Upcoming shows “Starting Soon”, Live means the talk is on, Closed tells them it is over.
4. 4Click Stop microphone when the talk ends.

• Audience — for people's phones. Show QR opens a QR code to show or print, Share link sends the link by WhatsApp, e-mail and so on, and the last button opens the page yourself.
• Big Screen — the same for the TV or projector in the hall: open this link on the computer connected to the screen.

• Up to four languages side by side. At first the screen shows your session's languages; the gear button lets you choose others.
• Make the text bigger or smaller with − and + until it is easy to read from the back row.
• A small Join QR code at the top lets latecomers join on their phones. You can switch it off with the gear button.
• These choices are remembered on that computer.

• Your audience sees the Key Takeaways on their phones and on the big screen as soon as they are ready.
• Each talk is kept under My Sessions with its summary and the full transcript. You can search, open and delete talks there.
• You also receive the Key Takeaways by e-mail, in the language of the microphone page. If you do not want them, untick E-mail me the Key Takeaways after each talk under Settings.
• Saved talks are private. Switch one to Public to show it on the Archived Sessions page and share its link.
• Talks of only a few sentences get no summary. If you need the summary again later, use Create Key Takeaways now on the microphone page.

• The Credits page shows your balance, roughly how many hours of talk it covers and what each talk used.
• Top up: choose a pack and pay by card through Stripe. The invoice comes by e-mail, and you can download it again at any time from the history on the Credits page.
• A warning appears when your credits run low. If they run out during a talk, the talk stops a little later — the Key Takeaways are still written.
• Have a promo code? Enter it under Redeem a promo code.
• Mosques, churches and non-profits can ask not to be charged: fill in Mosque, church or non-profit? on the Credits page. Once approved, your organisation uses Read-Live for free.

1. 1Write a New request: what it is about, a subject, your message — and the session code if it concerns one talk.
2. 2You receive a reference such as RL-7K2Q9M and a confirmation by e-mail.
3. 3Our answer comes by e-mail and appears under Your requests. Open the request to read the whole conversation and to reply.