Webinar Translation

Why it helps

Recorded webinars are some of the most useful content B2B teams have, but they usually exist only in the presenter's language. Translating the recording turns each one into lead-generating content for other regions.

Step by step

1. Download the recording and trim the waiting-room minutes and Q&A you don't want to publish.
2. Translate into each target language; the slides stay as presented.
3. Host the translated MP4 on your webinar platform or website with the VTT captions.

Tips

• Trim first — you pay per minute, and dead air at the start costs money.
• Add translated titles and a short translated summary on the landing page.

Example

Cost: 2,400 credits ($2.40).

Limitations to know

• Slides and on-screen text stay in the original language.
• Presenters and attendees all share one translated voice.

Cut the recording down to what is worth voicing

Dubbing is billed per minute, so editing the recording before translation is the biggest saving available. Walk through a typical webinar and decide segment by segment:

Waiting room and sound checks

Cut. Nobody watching on demand needs them.

Host housekeeping (polls, chat, recording notice)

Cut or shorten; it refers to features the on-demand viewer can't use.

Main presentation

Keep. This is the reason to translate.

Product demo

Keep if the narration explains each step; the interface stays in its original language.

Audience Q&A

Keep strong questions the presenter repeated aloud; drop ones asked on weak microphones or read silently from chat.

Closing offer with dates or discount codes

Re-check; expired offers and region-specific pricing usually need cutting.

Voice track, subtitles, or both

Dub mode produces a translated MP4, the translated voice as M4A, and SRT and VTT files whose text follows what the voice says. Transcript mode with a target language produces translated subtitles and a translated transcript only, at 1 credit per minute. For a 40-minute edit that is 2,000 credits ($2.00) for the dub or 40 credits (4¢) for subtitles. A sensible pattern is subtitles for markets where your audience is used to reading along with technical talks, and a dub where viewers will want to listen while watching the slides or demo. The subtitles vs dubbing guide sets out the trade-offs in general terms.

Slides, demos and spoken references

Only speech is translated. Slide titles, charts and the product interface stay as presented; mydubly does not translate on-screen text. Three things help regional viewers:

• Offer the translated slide deck as a download next to the video so viewers can follow the visuals in their language. Translating on-screen text lists other options.
• Search the translated transcript for phrases like "as you can see here" that point at text the viewer can't read, and add a note on the landing page where it matters.
• Check spoken web addresses, product names and figures. A URL read aloud is easy to mistranscribe, and the translated voice will repeat the mistake.

A review pass before it goes on demand

Ask the presenter or a colleague who speaks the target language to watch the dub preview, which plays at 0.75× to 1.5× so slower sections can be reviewed quickly. The result screen also shows original and translated text side by side for checking terminology. Concentrate on product claims, pricing, the call to action, and the presenter's name and company, which the stock voice will pronounce the way the target language would. The AI dubbing quality checklist covers timing, pacing and endings.

Who does what on a webinar team

A translated webinar touches several people, and naming them up front avoids a finished dub sitting unpublished. The marketing owner trims the recording, runs one job per language and keeps the downloads in a shared folder named by language. The presenter answers terminology questions and supplies the correct spelling of product and customer names. A colleague in each region reviews the translation and the landing-page copy. The web team publishes the video, captions and form. For a 40-minute edit, budget most of the elapsed time for review rather than processing, and schedule the regional reviewer before you start rather than after.

Publishing the regional versions

Give each language its own landing page with a translated title, description and registration or contact form, and attach the VTT file as captions in the player. One voice speaks the whole dubbed track, so a host and a guest presenter will both be read by the same voice; introduce the speakers in the page copy so viewers know who is talking. If one page should offer several languages, see multilingual video on your website.

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.