Training Video Translation

Why it helps

Workers who don't fully understand safety training are more likely to make mistakes. Translating existing training videos is faster than re-filming and keeps demonstrations identical across sites.

Training videos often show staff and facilities. With mydubly the video never leaves your device — only the speech is processed.

Step by step

1. Start with the most important videos: safety inductions and equipment operation.
2. Translate one video and have a bilingual supervisor review the terminology.
3. Publish the translated MP4s in your LMS with VTT captions, so staff can follow with or without sound.

Tips

• Keep a list of equipment names and check them in each translation.
• Captions help in loud environments where audio isn't practical.

Example

Cost: 600 credits (60¢).

Limitations to know

• Machine translation should be reviewed for safety-critical instructions.
• On-screen labels and signage aren't translated.

Sort the library by how much a mistake would cost

Training libraries mix content where a mistranslation is harmless with content where it could hurt someone. Set the review effort per tier before translating anything:

Safety-critical (lockout, chemicals, machinery)

Dub plus subtitles; line-by-line review by a fluent supervisor or professional translator before release

Compliance and policy

Dub or subtitles; reviewer checks terms against the official translated policy

Process and system how-tos

Dub; a bilingual team lead spot-checks steps and screen references

Welcome and culture videos

Dub or subtitles; light review for names and tone

For the first tier, the article on safety training video translation explains why AI output should be treated strictly as a draft.

Build the glossary before the first run

Machine translation may render each equipment name, procedure code and job title its own way unless someone checks. Pull a list from your SOPs: machine names, part numbers, alarm names, PPE items, department names, and words that should stay untranslated, such as product brands or labels printed on the equipment. The reviewer then works through the original and translated text shown side by side on the result screen with the glossary open. If the button on a machine reads "E-STOP" in English, workers may be better served by hearing that exact term than a translation of it. Creating a translation style guide turns these decisions into a document you can reuse every quarter.

Pilot one module per language

1. Pick a short, representative module, ideally one with demonstrations and a few technical terms.
2. Run it in dub mode and download the translated video plus the SRT and VTT files.
3. Have the reviewer note every wrong term, unclear instruction and awkward pause, with timestamps.
4. Show the result to a few workers who will actually use it and ask what they understood, not whether they liked the voice.
5. Fold the corrections into the glossary, then translate the rest of that tier.

In dub mode the subtitles follow what the voice actually says, including lines shortened to fit the timing, so a reviewer reading the SRT sees what workers will hear.

Quizzes, sign-off forms and handouts that sit around the video in your LMS are not part of the recording, so they need translating separately, ideally by the same reviewer using the same glossary. Step numbers, warnings and labels shown in the picture also stay in the original language; if a module relies on them, have the trainer read them aloud when you next re-record, or add translated captions in an editor.

Picking languages and variants for your workforce

mydubly covers 21 languages. For Spanish and Portuguese the picker offers regional variants: choose Spanish (Latin America) or Spanish (Spain), and Portuguese (Brazil) or Portuguese (Portugal), according to where most workers at that site come from. Hindi is the only Indian language available, so teams speaking Tamil, Punjabi or Bengali need another route. Languages outside the list, such as Romanian, Tagalog or Ukrainian, are not offered; for those, a vendor or bilingual colleague producing subtitles is the realistic option. Keep one stock voice per language across the whole programme so modules feel consistent.

When the source video changes

Procedures change, and an outdated translated module can do more harm than none. Keep the transcript and subtitle files with each version, name them with language and revision (forklift-induction_v3_pl.mp4), and record which source revision each language was made from. When a procedure changes, re-running the whole video is usually simpler than patching it: a 12-minute module costs 600 credits ($0.60) per language. Withdraw old language versions at the same moment as the old original. Updating translated videos covers change logs and telling learners what changed.

Using the tool on this page

• The spoken language is detected automatically; you select the output language — the spoken language itself for an untranslated transcript, or another language for a translation. Files can be up to 2 hours long.
• Only the audio is sent for processing — the video stays on your device — and audio and text are deleted within 30 minutes of delivery (how files are protected).
• You can download a translated video that keeps your music and effects, the translated audio as M4A, a transcript and subtitles (SRT and VTT). Every output, step and limit is explained on the video translator page.