Guides

About this collection

Guides are written to be useful whichever tool you use. Where mydubly can do the job, they show how and what it costs.

How the guides are organised

The guides are step-by-step walkthroughs for the tasks people most often search for, written so they're useful whichever tool you use. Where mydubly can do a step, the guide shows how and what it costs; where it can't, the guide says so and points to the usual alternative.

They come in two kinds. Task guides take one job from file to finished result: translating a video, dubbing it, transcribing video or audio, adding subtitles to a player or platform, and translating a YouTube video specifically. The decision guide on subtitles versus dubbing helps before any of those, when you haven't yet decided what kind of output your audience needs.

Pick a starting guide

I have a video and want it in another language

How to translate a video

I'm not sure whether viewers need a voice or captions

Subtitles vs dubbing

I've decided on a translated voice track

How to dub a video with AI

I need the words of a video as text

How to transcribe a video

I have a recording with no picture

How to transcribe audio

I already have an SRT or VTT file and need it on screen

How to add subtitles to a video

My video lives on a YouTube channel

How to translate a YouTube video

If you're new to all of this, read the subtitles-versus-dubbing guide first. It decides which of the other guides you need and saves paying for a voice track your audience didn't want.

What a guide contains, and how it differs from a use case

Each guide lists what you need before starting, numbered steps, the problems people commonly hit and how to fix them, and what the job costs at a realistic length. A guide is organised around a task, so the same dubbing guide serves a course creator and a marketing team. A use case is organised around a job and a type of content, so it also covers the decisions specific to that content, like how lecture recordings differ from webinars. If you know the task but not much about the tool, start with a guide; if you know your content well and want the whole workflow for it, start with its use case.

After the guide

Guides end where the first result is in your hands. Reviewing and finishing that result is covered in the blog: proofreading an AI transcript for text, the AI dub quality checklist for a translated voice, and editing SRT files for subtitles. For ready-made workflows built around a specific job, such as lectures, podcasts or training videos, see the use cases.