With its Cabin AI real-time interpretation product, Doctranslate.io is expanding from individual users to businesses and events in Vietnam and overseas, while also addressing document-processing and unstructured-data challenges.
The Vietnamese startup has developed capabilities across technologies including LLMs, OCR, Document Intelligence, and Speech-to-Text, helping shorten processing times, reduce costs, and handle multiple languages and specialized fields.
From PowerPoint Translation to an AI-Powered Language Platform
Tran Vu Anh, founder of ThinkPrompt, the company behind Doctranslate.io, said the platform currently focuses on three main technology groups.
The first comprises Machine Translation and Large Language Models (LLMs), which power translation-related applications.
The second includes OCR and Document Intelligence, enabling the system to understand both the content and structure of documents, from text, tables, and images to overall layouts.
The third covers speech-processing technologies, including Speech-to-Text, speech recognition, transcription, translation, and audio-content processing.
According to Anh, Doctranslate.io differs from popular AI and translation tools in two key ways.
First, the platform develops its own technology specifically for translation, with a particular focus on the Vietnamese language.
Second, Doctranslate.io is designed not simply to process a piece of text, but to handle the entire document and content-processing workflow - from recognizing the structure of text, images, audio, and speech to generating a complete output.
“Doctranslate.io began development in 2023, starting from the need to translate a technology-related PowerPoint file into Japanese. The document had a complex structure, multiple components, and required the original layout to be preserved after translation, while also maintaining translation quality.
“From that very specific problem, I realized that artificial intelligence could potentially make translation faster and more affordable while still maintaining quality. After its founding, Doctranslate.io gradually evolved from a document-translation tool into the language and multimedia content-processing platform it is today,” Anh said.
The product currently serves businesses, large-scale events, small businesses, and individual users, focusing on three main areas.
The first is translation, covering text, images, audio, video, and multiple document formats.
The second is document processing, including document understanding, information extraction and form filling, data entry, and content creation and generation.
The third comprises real-time language and speech-processing solutions, with Cabin AI as a flagship product.
Addressing the Challenges of Traditional Translation
Doctranslate.io’s goal is reflected in its slogan, “10x: faster, cheaper and better,” which aims to make translation and language-processing tasks faster, more affordable, and better.
According to Anh, complex documents and specialized content have traditionally relied heavily on manual processes, resulting in higher costs, greater staffing requirements, and longer turnaround times.
AI can help shorten many of these processes and reduce costs while improving quality.
Cabin AI is a real-time interpretation product designed for conferences, seminars, meetings, and events. It currently supports simultaneous interpretation in more than 80 languages.
The system recognizes, transcribes, and translates content almost immediately as speakers talk. Cabin AI supports a wide range of languages, from English, Chinese, and Japanese to Italian, Spanish, and others, making it suitable for events attended by participants from multiple countries.
Doctranslate.io has supported programs in quantum physics and medicine for universities, research institutes, and organizations.
The platform’s goal is not simply to replace human interpreters with AI, but also to reduce the cost and complexity of multilingual services, making them accessible to a broader range of users that previously could only afford such services for large-scale events.
According to Anh, in the interpretation industry, finding someone who is proficient in a specific language pair while also possessing deep expertise in medicine, technology, or physics is not straightforward.
The greater the number of languages and specialized fields involved, the more challenging and costly the staffing requirements become.
“In the future, ThinkPrompt plans to develop Doctranslate.io beyond a translation product and into a platform that helps businesses handle tasks involving documents and unstructured data.
“Distribution over the Internet enables the product to expand into new markets.
“At the same time, as an AI product, a growing customer base and increasing volume of feedback can create a continuous feedback loop, helping the product improve and respond more deeply to real-world needs,” he said.
(Source: Bao Tuoi Tre)
(Translated by: Startup Hai Phong)
