Japanese to Chinese Live Translated Captions
Japanese presentations and meetings, captioned live in Chinese — keigo and jargon included.
In meetings with Japanese partners, three rounds of keigo can wrap a single decisive sentence. Avoce turns Japanese speech into live Chinese captions with the original alongside — supplier names, model numbers, and terms locked in the glossary, and the minutes basically write themselves.
Nothing to install — it runs in the browser. Capture a live talk with the microphone, or caption an online meeting or video through tab audio. Register names and jargon in the glossary so the Chinese stays exact, let the audience scan a QR code to read captions on their own phones, and export the transcript as txt, Markdown, or srt when you’re done.
Where it shines
- Business meetings with Japanese clients
- Japanese tech talks
- Japanese launch-event streams
What to watch for in this direction
The verb lands at the end
In Japanese you only learn whether a sentence is affirmative or negative at the very end (〜ます versus 〜ません). Word order forces the translation to wait for the sentence to finish, so Japanese captions inherently settle a beat later than English ones. No setting changes this, and no tool avoids it.
Keigo wraps the point in several layers
A phrase like 〜させていただければと存じます is ordinary business Japanese for what amounts to “we would like to do this.” Chinese compresses it, so the caption reads far more directly than the original. That is usually welcome, but when you need to gauge how firm the other side is, keep the original line on screen alongside.
Homophonic kanji and false-friend loanwords
Pairs like 私立 and 市立 are told apart only by context, and katakana loanwords mislead more often: クレーム is a customer complaint, not an insurance claim; マンション is an ordinary apartment, not a mansion. Any loanword that recurs in your project belongs in the glossary.
Three steps to start — nothing to install.
Put these in the glossary first
The glossary applies to both recognition and translation: terms you register up front stop the model re-guessing a rendering every time.
- Client and supplier company names
- Model numbers and part codes that mix letters and digits
- Recurring katakana loanwords and the Chinese you want for each
- Names and titles of the Japanese participants
One point buys one minute of live translation — about $3.70 an hour on the $10.99 / 180-point pack. Signing up gets you a free 20-minute trial, no credit card needed.
Common questions
Does keigo survive the translation?
Chinese has no matching honorific system, so the translation reads plainly. When the degree of politeness carries meaning, read it against the original line.
Traditional or Simplified Chinese?
Choosing Traditional Chinese as the target outputs Traditional characters, and a Chinese source line is converted to Traditional as well.
Can it caption a Japanese live stream?
Yes — tab audio captures the sound from the browser, with nothing extra to install.