Vocre is a mobile app focused on enabling near-instant in-person conversational translation by having users speak into the phone and flip it to trigger a translated spoken response. Users select the target language and the gender of the synthesized voice; the app uses Nuance for speech-to-text, the company’s crowd‑sourced machine‑learning translation layer, and iSpeech to convert translated text back to audio. Vocre positions itself against Google Translate and JibbGo, emphasizing a UX optimized for face‑to‑face dialogue rather than web-page translation. The app monetizes via subscriptions and micropayments: each download includes 10 free translations, and additional sets of 10 translations can be purchased for $0.99. myLanguage, the company behind Vocre, plans to use its in‑house translation technology to add phone call and text features in the near future. Vocre is currently available in the U.S. App Store in nine dialects (including variants of English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Mandarin) and aims to add roughly 40 more languages over the next year. The app requires a data plan to operate and currently needs phones set to American English to function.

Total raised

$0M

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Sep 2011