Mavericks, Inc., the Japanese company behind the AI video generation service NoLang, is strengthening the multilingual capabilities of NoLang to support the global IR activities of listed companies. With this feature, a company uploads Japanese earnings materials (PDF or PPTX) or plain text, and the AI understands and translates the content, then generates an IR video with narration and subtitles in the target language fully automatically. Companies can therefore publish video explanations for overseas investors on the same day they disclose their results, and can tune the content and tone to the investor’s profile and nationality to aid understanding and raise engagement.
Try NoLang for yourselfIR activities aimed at overseas investors are now essential
Since April 2025, the Tokyo Stock Exchange has effectively required companies on the Prime Market to disclose earnings information and timely disclosures in English at the same time as in Japanese, pressing listed companies for fast and fair disclosure at a global standard. Foreign corporations and other overseas entities now hold 32.4% of Japanese shares, up 0.6 points year on year and the highest level since the survey began1, which makes communication with overseas investors an increasingly important part of IR.
Many companies, however, struggle with this. According to a survey by the Japan Investor Relations Association, more than half of the companies that conduct overseas IR (54.7%) cite “disclosure and communication in English” as a challenge. While 72.2% publish presentation materials in English, only 18.4% distribute videos in English, even though video makes information easier to grasp.2
Until now, producing IR videos for overseas investors tended to become a large project involving translators, narrators, production agencies and the executives appearing on camera, and coordinating all of them took time. That drove up production costs, and even a minor correction added several days of lead time before it appeared in the finished video. Companies could release earnings summaries and presentation materials on the day, but the explanatory video usually followed later, so they could not deliver easy-to-understand video content at the moment investor interest was highest.
NoLang delivers investor-specific personalized videos on the day results are disclosed
With NoLang, a company uploads its earnings summary or presentation materials (PDF or PPTX) and automatically generates an earnings explainer video with an AI avatar. That lets the company communicate with overseas investors by video as well, on the day the results are disclosed.
From the same source materials, it can also produce separate versions optimized in content, tone and language for the investor type (retail, institutional or overseas) and the investor’s nationality, in a short time. Personalizing videos for each investor strongly supports investor understanding and engagement.
This release describes concretely how to deliver individually personalized videos to overseas investors on the day results are disclosed.
One set of presentation materials, one department, and an IR video is ready immediately
Feed presentation materials (PDF or PPTX) into NoLang’s document input mode (“Generate from documents”) and it produces an explainer video with narration fully automatically. The content can be edited freely after generation. In the video settings, choose “Summarize” mode and set a video length such as 1 minute, 3 minutes or 4-6 minutes to create a condensed version of the earnings information for investors who are short on time. Choose “Present” mode instead and the video explains the material thoroughly, leaving nothing out. Companies can easily produce whichever version suits the investor’s situation.
The editing screen after generation also lets users adjust the interval between lines of narration and the line breaks in the subtitles intuitively. No video editing expertise is needed to shape the video so the message comes across properly.
NoLang also provides a “Dictionary” feature for registering a written form together with its correct reading, which prevents the AI voice from mispronouncing proper nouns and abbreviations. Once registered, the correct pronunciation applies to later video generation, and on the Business plan the entries can be shared across a team.
Avatar and voice clone features let companies produce IR videos featuring executives in-house, with no filming or recording
NoLang can create an avatar and a voice from a user’s photo and audio. One photo of the person to be turned into an avatar plus one minute of audio is enough to create a stand-in for that person that can be used in videos.
As a result, a company can produce an IR explainer video in which an executive appears to speak directly to viewers without setting aside filming time for that executive. Because no filming or recording work is required, staff in corporate planning or IR can complete production on their own. This improves the speed and consistency of disclosure while making it possible to produce videos “presented by the executives themselves” whose depth and content are tailored to retail investors, institutional investors and overseas investors respectively.
Convert to a multilingual video with one click and reach overseas investors the same day
A Japanese IR video created from Japanese earnings materials can be converted into another language with one click from “Change aspect ratio / Convert language.”
[Steps]
A video created in Japanese can be converted into another language in the following three steps.
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Open the viewing screen of the Japanese video created in NoLang and select the “Change aspect ratio / Convert language” button
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In the settings screen, choose the language to convert into (18 languages are available3)
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Press “Generate” and wait for it to finish (the video in the selected language is generated automatically)
Because a company can create the IR video in Japanese first and then generate versions matching each investor’s country of residence and language immediately, staff in the corporate planning or IR department alone can run an operation that delivers videos of equal quality to overseas investors at the moment attention is highest. Reaching investors in their native language supports their understanding and increases engagement.
Outlook
Mavericks, Inc. plans to strengthen the multilingual capabilities of NoLang further and to add support for other major languages in stages. By helping companies make information disclosure in IR more efficient and more sophisticated, Mavericks aims to improve the transparency of Japanese companies’ activities and contribute to a more active capital market overall.
Try NoLang for yourselfFootnotes
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Source: Tokyo Stock Exchange, “Results of the 2024 Shareownership Survey” (in Japanese) ↩
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Source: Japan Investor Relations Association, “2025 Survey on IR Activities” (in Japanese) ↩
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