Founder
Aery Goh
Founder of Translife Group and Pikka AI
Aery Goh (Goh Soon Lih) founded Translife in 2005. He studied in Japan on MEXT — a Japanese government scholarship for elite international students — then built Pikka AI from translation work and programming.
- Name
- Aery Goh (Goh Soon Lih)
- Role
- Founder, Translife Group and Pikka AI
- Study
- Cognitive psychology, University of Tokyo
- Scholarship
- MEXT — Japan’s scholarship for elite international students
- Japanese
- Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
- Translife founded
- 2005
Timeline
2005
Translife, then Japan on MEXT
Founded Translife in Malaysia. The same year he went to Japan on MEXT — a Japanese government scholarship for elite international students.
2005–2010
TUFS, University of Tokyo, UNIQLO
Japanese at TUFS, cognitive psychology at the University of Tokyo, then deputy store manager at UNIQLO.
2011—
Back in Malaysia
Built Translife as interpreting and translation between Japanese organisations and Malaysia and Singapore.
Recently
Pikka AI
Talk for conversations, Speech for events, Doc for formatted files.
The products
- Pikka Talk
Live conversation and meeting interpretation at talk.pikkaai.com.
- Pikka Speech
Event interpretation at speech.pikkaai.com.
- Pikka Doc
Formatted Word, Excel, and PowerPoint translation at doc.pikkaai.com.
Frequently asked questions
Who created Pikka AI?
Aery Goh (Goh Soon Lih). He founded Translife in 2005, then built Pikka Talk, Speech, and Doc from translation work and programming.
What is MEXT?
A Japanese government scholarship for elite international students. Aery Goh received it as Malaysia’s scholar, then studied at the University of Tokyo.
Who operates Pikka?
Translife Group Sdn. Bhd., the language-services company Aery Goh founded in Malaysia in 2005.
Japanese-language founder profile: translife.co/jp/japanese/ceo. Company site: translife.co.