Use Cases

About this collection

Each use case explains why the job matters, a step-by-step workflow, tips, honest limitations and a costed example, so you can tell quickly whether mydubly fits.

How the use cases are organised

Every page here starts from a job rather than a feature: translating a course, transcribing an interview, captioning a channel. They fall into two groups that mirror mydubly's two modes. Translation and dubbing pages use dub mode, where a video or recording gets a translated voice, subtitles and transcripts. Transcription and subtitle pages use transcript mode, which returns text and subtitle files at 1 credit per minute and can translate the text too.

Each page follows the same order: the workflow from preparing the file to publishing, the decisions you'll face along the way, what the output will and won't do for that job, and a costed example sized to it. That makes it quick to tell whether the tool fits before you spend anything.

Where to start

• Publishing on YouTube: YouTube video translator for dubbed versions, YouTube subtitles for caption files in one or more languages.
• Teaching: lecture transcription for notes and searchable archives, lecture translation for students who speak another language, online course translation for selling a course in a new market.
• Podcasts: podcast transcription for show notes and accessible transcripts, podcast translation for a feed in another language.
• Teams and companies: meeting transcription, training videos, webinars and marketing videos.
• Interviews and notes: interview transcription for journalism and research, voice memo to text for the recordings on your phone.

Telling neighbouring pages apart

Several jobs come in pairs, and the difference is the output. Lecture transcription gives students text in the language the lecture was given; lecture translation gives them the lecture in another language, as a voice, subtitles or both. Podcast transcription produces show notes and an accessible transcript for the existing feed, while podcast translation produces a new episode for listeners who speak another language. The YouTube video translator page is about dubbed versions, and YouTube subtitles is about caption files that sit on top of the original audio. Interview and meeting transcription both produce text, but interviews usually need verified quotes and careful attribution, while meetings need decisions and action items pulled out quickly.

If your job isn't listed

Start from the tool closest to the output you want: the video translator for a version in another language, video to text or audio to text for a transcript, the subtitle generator for SRT and VTT files. If one recording needs several outputs, such as a dub, subtitles and a blog post, planning a repurposing workflow shows how to decide them before you record.