Chinese to English Live Translated Captions
Speak Mandarin; your international audience reads live English captions as you go.
Forcing a Mandarin speaker into English often cuts the delivery in half. With Avoce the speaker stays in Mandarin — speech becomes live English captions on the venue screen or the audience’s phones, so the pacing and the punchlines survive, and nothing gets lost.
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 English 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
- Pitches and product launches
- Hosting international guests
- All-hands with global teams
What to watch for in this direction
Chinese has no tense; English must pick one
A Mandarin sentence can map to did, have done, or have been doing with equal grammatical footing. English has to commit. Saying the time frame out loud — “last year we built”, “we are currently building” — improves the translation more than any setting does.
The subject is often dropped entirely
Mandarin can run a whole paragraph without naming who acts. “Decided to ship next week” — decided by whom? An English sentence cannot stand without a subject, so the model infers one from context, and a wrong inference attributes a decision to the wrong person. In meetings with several speakers this is the single most common error.
Idioms and four-character phrases
Four-character idioms translate literally into something odd, so the model paraphrases — differently each time. If you have a preferred English wording, such as a company tagline or product slogan, put it in the glossary and it stays fixed.
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.
- Official English spellings of company and product names, so they are not transliterated
- English names of executives and speakers
- A fixed English rendering for each industry term
- Set phrases such as taglines and slogans
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
Do Taiwan and mainland word choices matter?
The differences sit mostly in technical vocabulary (軟體 vs 软件, 網路 vs 网络) and usually converge on the same English word. What genuinely needs pinning down is product names and project code names — those belong in the glossary.
Can I mix English words into Mandarin?
Yes, and it is common in presentations. Mixed-in English terms usually pass through unchanged into the English output, which tends to make the result more accurate rather than less.
How does the audience see the captions?
Two ways: project them on a side screen, or open a room and show a QR code so the audience reads on their own phones — each person choosing their own language.