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Clear, useful guides for teams creating multilingual video, audio, and learning experiences.

Translate Video to Marathi: A Practical Guide
Translation Guides

Translate Video to Marathi: A Practical Guide

Marathi shares a script with Hindi and almost nothing else. Treating it as a Hindi variant is the fastest way to produce something nobody wants to watch.

Translate Video to Persian: Farsi, Dari, and Right-to-Left Video
Translation Guides

Translate Video to Persian: Farsi, Dari, and Right-to-Left Video

Right-to-left text breaks more video pipelines than any other single factor, and Persian is where most teams discover it.

Translate Video to Telugu: A Practical Guide
Translation Guides

Translate Video to Telugu: A Practical Guide

Telugu has two states, two capitals, and two centres of gravity for how the language is spoken. Your localization has to pick one.

Translate Video to Tamil: A Practical Guide
Translation Guides

Translate Video to Tamil: A Practical Guide

Tamil asks a question most languages do not: which Tamil? Get that wrong and everything downstream sounds wrong too.

Library and Archive Video Transcription at Scale
Accessibility

Library and Archive Video Transcription at Scale

An archive nobody can search is a storage cost, not a collection.

Building Bilingual Video Materials for Language Schools
Accessibility

Building Bilingual Video Materials for Language Schools

Language learners need the same content at two levels of support, not two different contents.

Energy and Utilities Field Training Translation
Enterprise

Energy and Utilities Field Training Translation

The person doing the most hazardous work on site is often the one least likely to have been trained in their own language.

Sermon Translation for Multilingual Congregations
Localization

Sermon Translation for Multilingual Congregations

Most congregations discover they are multilingual long before their communication does.

Embedding Video Translation in Your Product
Developer Guides

Embedding Video Translation in Your Product

Translation is an API call. Shipping it as a feature is a distributed systems problem with a user waiting at the end of it.

Insurance Video Translation for Policyholders and Claims
Enterprise

Insurance Video Translation for Policyholders and Claims

The moment a policyholder most needs to understand their cover is the moment they are least able to read a forty-page document.