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Translate Your Online Course Videos in Your Own Voice

To translate an online course with AutoDub, you dub it one lesson video at a time: upload the file or paste a YouTube link, pick the language, and AutoDub transcribes, translates and re-voices the speech in a clone of your voice, lip-synced, with subtitles. Then you upload the dubbed lessons to your course platform as a new-language version.
Your own voiceLip-syncSRT and VTT subtitlesUp to 30 minutes per lesson
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Who it's for

Who Translates Course Videos with AutoDub

Anyone who owns the recordings and wants learners in another language to hear the lesson, not read it

  • Course creators

    You sell a course on a marketplace or on your own school and want a Spanish, Hindi, Arabic or Portuguese version without recording every lesson again.

  • Academies and coaching programmes

    You run a catalogue of recorded classes and want to open it to students who do not follow English at full speed.

  • Corporate training teams

    You have onboarding, product and compliance videos for one office and need the same lessons for teams in other countries.

  • Lecturers

    You record lectures and want a dubbed copy for exchange students or a partner university, with subtitles in the new language.

Why Translate Your Online Course

A course recorded in one language reaches only the people who follow that language well enough to learn from it. UNESCO describes the gap this way: “Today, 40 % of people globally lack access to education in the language they speak and understand fluently.”

Source: UNESCO, “New UNESCO report calls for multilingual education to unlock learning and inclusion” (18 February 2025), unesco.org/en/articles/new-unesco-report-calls-multilingual-education-unlock-learning-and-inclusion, checked 4 November 2026.

Course platforms see the demand in their own numbers. Coursera, which translates and dubs part of its own catalogue, wrote that its “Spanish-translated courses already have more than 1 million enrollments, the highest for any translated language on our platform”, and that “Learners on Coursera complete translated courses at higher rates and nearly 25% faster compared to those offered only in the original language.”

Source: Coursera Blog, “Coursera Launches AI-Dubbed Courses in Spanish, French, Brazilian Portuguese, and German” (14 April 2025), blog.coursera.org/coursera-launches-ai-dubbed-courses-in-spanish-french-brazilian-portuguese-and-german, checked 4 November 2026.

Subtitles help, but a learner who reads them cannot watch your screen, your hands or your whiteboard at the same time. A dubbed lesson keeps the eyes on the lesson. Every AutoDub dub also comes with subtitles in the new language, so learners who prefer to read along still can.

How it works

How to Translate an Online Course, Lesson by Lesson

Each lesson video is its own dub; a course is the same steps repeated for every lesson

  1. Step 1: Export or link each lesson

    Download the lesson videos from your course platform or editing project (MP4, MOV, M4V or WebM, up to 30 minutes and 2 GB each), or paste a YouTube link if the lesson lives there.

  2. Step 2: Pick the language

    Choose the language your learners speak. On a paid plan you can pick up to five languages for one lesson at once; each language is its own dub and uses its own minutes.

  3. Step 3: Watch every dubbed lesson

    Each dub plays in your dashboard first. Check names, technical terms and numbers: AutoDub has no script editor, so a lesson that needs a fix is re-recorded or dubbed again.

  4. Step 4: Download with a plan

    Download the MP4 and its SRT and VTT subtitles with a plan; a free trial dub can be downloaded with a one-time unlock.

  5. Step 5: Publish the new-language version

    Upload the dubbed lessons to your course platform, usually as a copy of the course or a separate language version (see the platform table below), and add the subtitle files if the platform takes them.

Comparison

Where a Translated Course Video Goes on Each Platform

What each platform's own help pages say about a second language, and where the dubbed lesson fits

FeatureWhat the platform says about other languagesWhere the dubbed lesson goes
TeachableOne student-facing language per school: the setting “applies globally to all eligible student-facing pages” and translates system-generated text on those pages.Duplicate the course (content is copied, enrollments are not). A duplicate shares its source videos, so Teachable recommends deleting the duplicated video and uploading it again: upload the dubbed lesson in its place.
ThinkificThe site language covers buttons, menus and checkout text. To “Will my course content be translated?” Thinkific answers “No.” It suggests duplicating the course and translating the copy, using categories per language, or a separate site per language on a Plus plan.Duplicate the course and replace each lesson video with its dubbed version.
KajabiKajabi has its own transcription, translation and dubbing tools for “any video already uploaded to your Course lesson”; AI credits power its transcriptions and translations.A lesson takes an uploaded video, so you can also upload the dubbed MP4 to the lesson like any other video.

Sources: Teachable Help Center, “How do I translate my school?” (18 February 2026) and “Duplicate or delete a product” (18 November 2025), support.teachable.com; Thinkific Help Center, “Change Site Language” (the page dates itself “as of July 20, 2026”) and “Support Multiple Languages” (the page carries no date), support.thinkific.com; Kajabi Help Center, “Kajabi Transcripts, Translations, and Dubbing” (updated 2 November 2026), help.kajabi.com; all checked 4 November 2026. Udemy is not listed because its instructor help page could not be read when we checked. Platforms change: read their help pages before you publish, and if something here is outdated, tell us through the contact page.

What a Course Costs in Minutes

AutoDub bills every dub in whole minutes, rounded up, once per language. A course of 10 lessons of 6 minutes each is 60 minutes of video, so dubbing it into Spanish uses 60 minutes, and into Spanish and Hindi uses 120.

Rounding happens per lesson: if each of those 10 lessons runs 5 minutes 20 seconds, each is billed as 6 minutes, so the course is 60 minutes per language even though it holds just over 53 minutes of video. Cutting long pauses before you upload lowers the total.

Plans include a set number of minutes every month, from $39 a month (yearly plans 20% off), and plan minutes renew each billing month. Subscribers can top up with packs of 10 minutes from $25. Compare your course's total with the allowances on the pricing page, or dub the course over more than one month.

Benefits

What Changes in a Dubbed Lesson, and What Stays

AutoDub translates what is said; everything that is part of the picture stays as you recorded it

  • Your voice, in the new language

    Each lesson is re-voiced with a clone of the speaker's voice taken from that lesson's own audio.

  • Lip-synced to the new words

    The mouth movements are adjusted to the dubbed audio, so a talking-head lesson stays believable.

  • Subtitles included

    Every dub comes with SRT and VTT subtitle files in the new language for platforms that take them.

  • Slides stay as recorded

    Text on slides, screen recordings and titles is not translated. Translate the slides yourself if learners need them.

Comparison

Course Translation Limits Free Trial or a Plan

Try one lesson before you pay; a plan covers the rest of the course

FeatureFree trialWith a plan
LessonsOne video, one languageAs many as your minutes cover
Length per lessonUp to 2 minutesUp to 30 minutes
Upload or linkMP4, MOV, M4V and WebM up to 2 GB, or a YouTube, TikTok or Instagram linkThe same
Languages per lesson at onceOneUp to five, each its own dub
Watch the dub in your dashboardYesYes
TurnaroundMost videos in 5–15 minutesThe same
Download the MP4 and SRT/VTT subtitlesWith a one-time unlock ($4.99)Yes
PriceFreeFrom $39 a month; yearly plans 20% off

The free trial needs a verified e-mail address. Subscribers can top up with minute packs from $25.

FAQ

Translate Online Course FAQ

Questions course creators ask before they dub a whole course

5 answers

Yes, if it is your course: upload each lecture video you own, dub it, download the MP4 with a plan and upload it to Udemy. How Udemy lists a course in a second language is Udemy's rule, so check its instructor help on course language or ask instructor support before you publish. AutoDub is for the course's owner; it is not a browser extension that dubs someone else's course while you watch.

No. AutoDub translates and re-voices the speech only. Text that is part of the picture, such as slides, code in a screen recording, captions burned into the video and titles, stays exactly as recorded. If learners need translated slides, translate the slide deck and re-record those parts, or share the slides as a download next to the lesson.

If you are the speaker in every lesson, yes: each lesson is dubbed with a voice cloned from the speaker in that lesson, so the Spanish or Hindi version sounds like you throughout. Clean audio from one microphone gives the closest match. A guest speaker in a lesson gets a clone of the guest's voice.

Each lesson is its own dub, and most dubs are ready in 5–15 minutes. You can start the next lesson while the last one is still being dubbed, so the time a course takes depends mostly on how fast you upload, watch and publish the lessons, not on the number of languages.

Treat it like any lesson: export the recording as MP4, MOV, M4V or WebM (up to 30 minutes and 2 GB), upload it, pick the language and watch the dub. A lecture longer than 30 minutes has to be split into parts first. Lectures filmed from the back of a hall dub best when the microphone audio is clear and one person speaks at a time.

Specs and limits

What AutoDub does not do yet.

Worth knowing before you dub a video:

  • No script editor. You cannot edit the transcript or the translation of a dub, so watch every dub before you publish it.
  • No public API. Every dub is started in the web app; there is no API for teams yet.
  • One language per dub. Each dub has one target language and is billed as its own dub. Paid plans can pick several languages in one submission; the free trial is one video in one language.
  • 30 minutes and 2 GB per video. A longer or larger video has to be split into parts before you upload it.
  • Subtitles only in the new language. The SRT and VTT files are in the dubbed language; there is no subtitle file in the original language.
  • Links from three sites. AutoDub fetches YouTube, TikTok and Instagram links; a video from anywhere else has to be uploaded as a file.
  • No accent or dialect setting. You pick a language, such as Spanish, not a regional variety of it.
  • No automatic deletion. Nothing is removed for you: your videos and dubs stay in your account until you delete them in your dashboard.
  • Downloads need a plan or an unlock. A free trial dub can be watched, not downloaded: the video and its subtitles download with a plan or a one-time unlock from $4.99.

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