MACHINE TRANSLATION FOR CHAT
A B2B machine translation service, powered by a crowd of enthusiastic language learners.
HOW IT WORKS
MARKET
Chat has now surpassed social media engagement on mobile, brands are quickly moving to offer
‘conversational commerce’ via chat bots, and being able to translate chat is becoming BIG business.
$45B
15%
estimated value
projected annual growth rate
of the global language industry
by 2020
machine translation market
$30B
estimated value
of the language tech industry
500M
monthly active users
use chat more than social
machine translation
PROBLEM
community vetted
Today’s machine translation engines are trained on books, academic articles, & government documents...
but the way people talk online is very different!
GOOD
AT
Hello friend. How are you?
Hola amigo. ¿Cómo estás?
Yo bruh! Sup wit u
BAD A
T
No translation was found...
expert corrected
SOLUTION:
stored in database
Crowdsourcing training data
Our language-learning tools help students practice a foreign language, and turns every day chat
messages into profitable scalable training data for machine translation.
RESULTS FROM OUR 400 USER BETA TRIAL:
200K
translation pairs
donated by opted-in users
1.3M
messages translated
and over 38K chat sessions
40¢
cost per acquisition
per user from 10 countries
54
days
average user lifespan
With seed funding we can scale up our community-vetted training data, optimize our translation API,
and become the translation layer for the modern conversation-based mobile web experience.
THE TEAM
Duncan • Randy • Zach
TRY IT YOURSELF:
support @ beefluentapp . com
BEEFLUENTAPP.COM
RASING SEED ROUND
to scale our team and translation API platform targeting Language Service
Profiders, Customer Support, App & Bot Builders and Business Intelligence
SOURCES
https://www.gala-global.org/industry/industry-facts-and-data
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-messaging-app-report-2015-11