Automatic Subtile Translations

BradCartwright
BradCartwright Posts: 9 researcher rank
in Audio and video solutions

Hey Everyone!

As super happy Udemy instructor, I am wondering if Udemy auto translates subtitles from English to an other language?  

As an example below, this course is taught in English and has 25 other languages where it says {Auto}.

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That would imply that Udemy does it automatically--which would be incredible!

But I can't find out how or even if that is possible.

Thank you so much!

Brad

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  • Leonor C.
    Leonor C. Posts: 1,140 Udemy rank

    Hello @BradCartwright

    Happy to help! Udemy will automatically generate subtitles in a different laguage once the course has at least 20 subscribers from the specific region. For more information, take a look into this article:

    Happy teachings!

    Kindest regards,

    Leonor

    Udemy moderation team

  • PhillipBurton
    PhillipBurton Posts: 409 visionary rank

    @Leonor C.
    - that article is for auto-generated subtitles in the primary language, not auto-translated subtitles into other languages.

    @BradCartwright
    - Udemy can do it, but it is very hit-and-miss. One of my courses has 25 auto-translated subtitles (with 79,119 students), but another with 4,710 students only has English. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a way to ask Udemy to do this.

    Phillip

  • BradCartwright
    BradCartwright Posts: 9 researcher rank

    Excellent news, thank you @Leonor C.
    !

    Quick Question: Since I have nearly 7,000 students and over 2,000 on one course, do I need to proactively set the translations to a particular language so that it tells Udemy to translate them? In other words, I have hundreds of students from India but that automatic translation has never set it. Do I need to select Hindi on the caption page and then it will start counting from there until it Auto Translates?

    Thanks a bunch,

    Brad

  • BradCartwright
    BradCartwright Posts: 9 researcher rank

    @PhillipBurton
    , thank you very much for the response! For the course that has 25 auto-translated subtitles, did you have to proactively set the captions to specific languages first--and that told Udemy to auto translate or did it simply happen automaticially?

    Brad

  • PhillipBurton
    PhillipBurton Posts: 409 visionary rank

    It just happened.

  • BradCartwright
    BradCartwright Posts: 9 researcher rank

    Ok, great. Thanks Phillip!

  • BradCartwright
    BradCartwright Posts: 9 researcher rank

    Hi @Leonor C.
    ,

    As a follow up, each of my courses have enough enrollments from various parts of the world--100s or 1000s in some cases.

    Are you able to help me active the auto-translation function? I think it would really drive additional sales as my courses in Economics are pretty universally desired.

    Please advise!

    Brad

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