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How to Translate a Video: Text, Subtitles and Dubbing

Choose translated text, subtitle files or spoken dubbing, then review the output against the original.

Choose the result you need

Use transcript translation to read the recording in another language. Use dubbing when you want a new spoken version. If your destination needs translated subtitle files, check that the export actually contains the target language.

These outputs need different checks. A readable translation does not by itself establish that captions fit the screen or that dubbed speech sounds right.

Translate the transcript

  1. Upload or open the recording.
  2. Check the original transcript, especially names and specialist terms.
  3. Use the recording’s translation action and choose the target language.
  4. Review the translated passage against the source.
  5. Check the displayed translation before using its wording.

Transcript downloads use the recording's saved transcript and speaker labels; selecting a displayed translation does not change the exported language. A translated view alone is not a translated subtitle download. Check export language, timing and line length in the destination player. See translation help and subtitle guidance.

Create a dubbed recording

Attach the recording in Ask AI and request: “Dub this recording into Spanish and save a new file.” Name your actual target language explicitly.

The dubbing tool creates translated synthetic speech with a separate voice for each speaker, saved as a new audio or video file. Play the returned file and check pronunciation, meaning, speaker changes and timing. See dubbing help.

Review meaning and coverage

Ask a competent speaker of the target language to check material where mistakes would matter. Look for negation, dates, units and terms that do not have a direct equivalent. Keep the original available for comparison.

The provider union covers 100+ languages, but that is not a promise that every transcription, translation or speech path supports every language equally. Check language coverage and methodology for the relevant path.

If a job fails, preserve the source and report the target language and error through support. Do not treat an unfinished request as an exported translation.