What MemoFlow does with this language
| Live captions while recording | Yes, when connected. Meeting minutes bill at 1 Credit / minute on Basic and Plus; Pro includes a monthly allowance. |
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| Transcript after recording | Plus and Pro. The whole session is recognised again automatically when it ends; if that cannot finish safely, the live transcript is kept. |
| Speaker labels | Plus and Pro. Numbered speakers where attribution is confident; you can rename them. |
| Live Interpretation from Mandarin Chinese | Yes — into any of the 60 target languages except Mandarin Chinese itself. |
| Live Interpretation into Mandarin Chinese | Yes — from any of the other 59 source languages. |
| Meeting summary | Plus and Pro. Drafted from a saved note as a separate result; the transcript is not overwritten. |
| Search | Save the transcript as a note and its words appear in note search. |
| Platforms | iPhone (iOS 16.0+) and Android (8.0 (API 26)). No desktop or web app. |
Pick the variety that is being spoken
Mandarin and Cantonese are separate entries in the Speech Recognition Language list. Choose the one the meeting is actually held in: a session set to Mandarin listens for Mandarin, and Cantonese speech in it will need checking against the audio.
For a meeting that mixes Mandarin with English terms, choose Mandarin and read the English terms, names and numbers against the recording before quoting them.
Where Traditional Chinese fits
The Mandarin recognition option is labelled Simplified Chinese. Traditional Chinese (繁體中文) is available as an app interface language, but is not a separate AI Meeting recognition option or a configured Live text target. Check the writing system you need before relying on a transcript or translation.
Cantonese in Live Interpretation
Cantonese can be the source or target of an interpretation session, so you can follow a Cantonese speaker in English, Mandarin or another configured language, or translate another supported source into Cantonese.
Mandarin works in both directions: as a source, and as a target for any of the other 59 Live Interpretation source languages.
How Chinese results are scored
Chinese text has no spaces between words, so MemoFlow's ASR benchmark method scores both Mandarin and Cantonese by character error rate. No Chinese result has been published yet, and this page makes no accuracy claim.
Limits to know
- The language is chosen before recording; there is no automatic language detection.
- Live captions need a connection. Offline recording continues without them.
- No accuracy figure is published for any language.
- Machine translation, not a human interpreter.
- Traditional Chinese is not a recognition option.
- Cantonese is a configured Live source and written target; this does not establish equal translation quality in every direction.
- Traditional Chinese is not a separately configured Live written target.
- Regional accents and dialects other than Cantonese have not been evaluated separately.