The speech-to-speech translation feature directly translates existing recorded audio or video files into a new language by creating a dubbed track. It clones the original speakers' voices, transcribes the audio, and generates new narration that matches the original track's exact timing. This approach is ideal for translating recorded video slides or audio tracks featuring multiple speakers, and it ensures that the new audio synchronizes perfectly with existing slide animations.

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Key features

• Translate recorded audio and video files directly
• Clone original voices to handle tracks with multiple speakers
• Maintain the exact duration and pacing of the original message automatically

You need this to succeed

• Plan: Bigtincan AuthoringAI Pro or Bigtincan AuthoringAI Pro Standalone
• Roles and Privileges: Content author
• Prerequisites: Presentation with slides that have audio narration recorded.

Do this step by step

Note: Translated narration replaces the original narration on each slide you select. You can’t undo this. To keep the original audio, make a copy of your presentation and translate the copy.

Open the presentation editor

1. Click Content in the top menu and select My Content.
2. Search and filter your Presentations to locate the presentation with audio narration you'd like to translate.
3. To copy the presentation:
   1. Click the three dot menu, hover over Folder, and select Copy.
   2. Choose a Destination Folder from the drop-down menu and click Apply.
4. Click the three dot menu on the presentation and select Edit.

Translate narration audio

Your slides need recorded narration before you can use the speech-to-speech translation feature. For detailed information on adding audio to your presentation, see Add audio narration to your slides.

1. Select the slide with audio narration you want to translate.
2. Click Tools at the top of the page.
3. Select Translate, then Translate audio.
4. In the Audio language section, choose your source language:
   • If the recording is longer than eight seconds, Authoring AI will auto-detect the language.
   • If your narration is shorter than eight seconds, manually select the language your audio was recorded in.
5. In the Translate to section, select your target language.
6. Read and check the confirmation checkbox.
7. Select the slides you would like to translate.
8. Click Translate and save.
9. Click Replace to confirm. This action cannot be undone.

10. Wait while your audio is processed. Once complete, the translated narration is automatically added to the slide. The translated audio changes the language while preserving the voice and tone of the original narration.

    Tip: If your narration was created with text-to-speech, you’ll get better results by translating the slide notes and then regenerating the audio with a voice in the target language. Speech-to-speech translation keeps the original timing, so it may speed up the audio to fit, which can sometimes sound unnatural. Translating the text and using text-to-speech gives you more natural pacing.