Chinese to Japanese Live Translated Captions
Host Japanese visitors and pitch in Mandarin — Japanese captions appear as you speak.
Hosting a Japanese delegation or pitching to Japanese clients, a last-minute interpreter is expensive and hard to book. With Avoce you present in Mandarin while Japanese captions appear live on the screen or your guests’ phones — with company and product names pinned in the glossary.
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 Japanese 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
- Hosting Japanese delegations
- Sales pitches to Japan
- Factory and campus tours
What to watch for in this direction
A politeness level has to be chosen
Mandarin carries no honorific marking, yet every Japanese sentence must choose one: teineigo, sonkeigo, or kenjōgo. The default is teineigo, which is safe for ordinary business settings. For an important client or a formal occasion, state the relationship at the start, or have someone on the Japanese side review the wording of the key sentences.
Same characters, different meanings
愛人 means mistress in Japanese, 勉強 means study, 手紙 means letter, 大丈夫 means fine. Carrying the characters straight across goes wrong. The model usually handles the spoken side; the risk is in your own slides, because characters on screen are never translated.
How your names are written in Japanese
Should your company name appear in katakana, keep its original characters, or stay in Latin letters? All three are normal in Japan, but only one of them can be right inside a single presentation. Put the choice in the glossary and it holds throughout.
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.
- The Japanese form you want for company and product names (katakana, kanji, or Latin)
- Same-character words that mean something else in Japanese
- Job titles and their Japanese equivalents
- Project names that recur through the presentation
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
Can Japanese guests read on their phones?
Yes. Open a room, show the QR code on screen, and each guest reads on their own phone in the language they pick.
Does it work on a walking factory tour?
Yes, and it is a common use: the phone picks up the audio and guests read on their own screens, with no cabling. Audio quality is the deciding factor — use a lapel mic on a noisy line.
Are the slides translated too?
No. Avoce translates what is spoken, not what is on screen. Prepare bilingual slides, or read the key lines aloud.