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Turn our church's six Chinese devotionals into the bilingual publication every week

A church volunteer runs a weekly hybrid workflow: The AI translates six Chinese daily spiritual messages (Monday–Saturday) into structured JSON under strict rules — Bible quotations in NASB 2020 rather than translated, hymns left untranslated, ministry terminology matched — then Python inserts the text into a PowerPoint template, merges a bilingual twelve-message deck, and converts it to HTML for the church website. He keeps theological review, visual checks and final publishing approval human on purpose.

How it works

  1. Receive the week's six Chinese messages as PowerPoint and PDF
  2. The AI translates each day into a JSON object under the spec (NASB 2020 for verses, hymns untranslated, headings and daily-question formatting preserved)
  3. Python inserts the English into the slide template by date
  4. Merge with the Chinese deck into a twelve-message bilingual presentation
  5. Convert the English deck to HTML for a WordPress post
  6. Human reviews translation, theology and layout, then publishes

Why it’s worth knowing

The smart design was refusing full automation: the agent translates under a strict contract, code does the deterministic assembly, and humans keep only the judgment.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on dev.to. See the original ↗

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