Setting up your audio input

Glossa listens to whatever audio your computer can hear and turns it into translation. The cleaner that audio is, the better your results. Background noise, echo, and distance all hurt accuracy, so the goal is to feed Glossa a direct, clean signal rather than letting it pick up the room.

Here are your options, roughly in order of best results:

• Direct from your soundboard or mixer (recommended). This gives Glossa the cleanest possible audio, straight from the same feed your congregation hears. It produces the best translation quality by far.
• USB microphone. A good choice for simple setups. Place it close to the speaker for the clearest signal.
• Virtual audio cable. Use this to route audio from streaming software like OBS into Glossa (tools like VB-Audio or Voicemeeter work well). Your main stream to YouTube or Facebook continues as normal.
• RTMP stream. Supported, though it adds a little extra delay.

What does not work

Using your phone's microphone to pick up audio from across the room. There's too much background noise, echo, and distance between the speaker and the mic, and translation quality suffers badly. Always feed Glossa a direct line where you can.

A quick note on browsers

Glossa works best in Google Chrome on a laptop or desktop computer. Most browsers will ask permission before using your audio input, so you'll need to allow access when prompted. See the next article for how to do that in Chrome.