Chinese to Vietnamese Live Translated Captions
Safety briefings, parent meetings, Sunday sermons — speak Mandarin, and Vietnamese captions appear on their phones.
In Taiwan, Vietnamese migrant workers and new residents are one of the largest communities — yet factory safety briefings, school parent meetings, church services, and hospital or district-office explanations usually happen only in Mandarin. A Vietnamese interpreter is hard to book at short notice, and relaying through a co-worker loses detail. With Avoce you speak Mandarin as usual while Vietnamese captions appear live on the screen or on each person’s phone — scan a QR code, no app needed.
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 Vietnamese 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
- Factory safety briefings and new-hire training
- School parent meetings
- Church services and gatherings
What to watch for in this direction
Mandarin often leaves out who has to act
“Turn it off before you leave or there’s a fine” — said in Mandarin, often without naming who turns it off or who gets fined. Mandarin listeners fill that in from context; Vietnamese has to pick a person, and its pronouns also encode age and relationship (anh, chị, em, các bạn). In safety rules and workplace policy, getting responsibility wrong is the worst possible error. Say the subject out loud — “everyone must switch it off before leaving”, “whoever breaks the rule is docked pay” — and the translation becomes much clearer.
Counting in 萬 has to become counting in thousands
Mandarin counts in units of 萬 (ten thousand); Vietnamese counts in nghìn (thousand) and triệu (million), so 兩萬五 has to become 25.000 — and Vietnamese uses the point as the thousands separator and the comma as the decimal mark. Wages, overtime pay, and deductions are the numbers workers care about most and the ones that must not be wrong. Keep the original line on so 「兩萬五千元」 sits next to “25.000 Đài tệ” and the audience can check for themselves.
Taiwan-specific names and systems
Taiwanese place names usually take their Sino-Vietnamese readings — Taipei is Đài Bắc, Taoyuan Đào Viên, Kaohsiung Cao Hùng — and Vietnamese people in Taiwan say them that way. Company names, plant codes, and system terms such as the NHI card, the resident certificate, and labor insurance are another matter: a literal rendering can leave the audience unable to recognise them. Register them the way your audience actually refers to them; when unsure, asking one Vietnamese co-worker is the fastest route.
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.
- Company and plant names, the way Vietnamese staff actually call them
- Systems and documents: NHI card, resident certificate, labor insurance, overtime pay
- Roles and shifts: team leader, line supervisor, day shift, night shift
- Workstation, machine, and chemical names
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, valid 7 days, no credit card needed.
Not sure yet? Try 20 minutes free first — no card needed. Points you buy never expire.
Common questions
Does Taiwanese Mandarin cause problems?
No. Recognition works on speech; Traditional versus Simplified is only a writing system and does not affect the Vietnamese. The thing to watch is Taiwanese Hokkien, which is not a supported speech language — sentences mixed with Hokkien may be missed, so say the key points in Mandarin.
Do workers need to install an app?
No. Open a room and show the QR code on screen or print it on a handout; everyone scans it in their phone browser and picks their own language — one briefing can run Vietnamese, Indonesian, and Thai captions at the same time.
Will it work in a noisy plant?
Yes, but audio is what decides it. A phone microphone next to running machines drops words; have the speaker wear a lapel or wireless mic, or hold the briefing in a break room or meeting room.