AuthoringAI gives you multiple ways to translate spoken words in your presentations. Translate your slide notes and generate new speech, and easily create multilingual content for different audiences.

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Key features

• Translate slide notes into another language directly in the presentation editor
• Replace original notes with translated text to prepare multilingual narration
• Generate AI narration from slide notes using a voice library with multiple language options

You need this to succeed

• Plan: Bigtincan Basic Content, Bigtincan Content, Bigtincan Elite, Bigtincan Essential, Bigtincan Standard, Bigtincan Standard Plus
• Roles and Privileges: Author
• Prerequisites: Slides with text slide notes.

Do this step by step

Open the presentation editor

1. To translate the slide notes in your existing presentations, click Content in the top menu and select My Content.
2. Search and filter to locate the presentation you'd like to edit.
3. Click the three dot menu on the presentation and select Edit.

Add slide notes

1. To add slide notes, click the slide in the slide navigator on the left.
2. In the Slide Properties panel on the right, click the Notes tab.
3. Add your slide notes in the text box and click Save.

Translate slide notes

1. Select the specific slide you want to translate.
2. In the Slide Properties panel on the right, click the Notes tab. Make sure your slide notes are entered correctly, and save any changes.
3. Click the three dot menu located at the top.
4. Select Translate notes from the dropdown menu.
5. Select the current language of slide notes in the Translate from field and your desired language in the Translate to field.
6. Click Translate to permanently replace the slide notes with the translated text. Click Replace to confirm.
7. Translation may take a moment. Once it's complete, repeat the process for the rest of your slides.

Generate speech from slide notes

1. Go to the slide where you want to generate audio.
2. In the right sidebar, open the Slide Properties section and click the Notes tab.
3. Click Generate narration above the notes field.
4. In the Voice library, select a language. By default, this is set to AuthoringAI — Brainshark's built-in AI voice engine. Leave this as-is unless your organization has custom voices configured.

5. Choose your preferred voice from the available options.

   Note: Selecting a different language here will not change the language of the generated audio, it only filters the available voices.

6. Click Generate and save.