Explain in their language
Concepts and reasoning translated, so the teaching is actually understood rather than decoded.
For educators & trainers
A learner who follows seventy percent of a lesson has not learned it. Octavia localizes courses, lectures and training so the teaching lands, while keeping the technical vocabulary learners need to work professionally.
The specific reasons this content usually stays in one language.
Learners working in a second language carry a cognitive tax that shows up as drop-off, not as complaints.
Render code, commands or clinical terms into the learner’s language and they cannot read the documentation afterwards.
One update to the source leaves every localized version quietly wrong.
The parts of the platform that matter for this work, rather than the full feature list.
Concepts and reasoning translated, so the teaching is actually understood rather than decoded.
Code, commands, error strings and technical vocabulary pass through untranslated so learners can still use the real tools.
Natural timing rather than compressed speech, which matters when a learner is reading a slide while listening.
Per-language transcripts for review, search and accessibility.
Process an entire course at once so terminology and voice stay consistent module to module.
Change the source and every language version flags for refresh rather than drifting silently.
Four steps from the file you already have to every language you need.
Whole modules at a time, so terminology and voice stay consistent.
Decide what is translated and what stays in the source language — the decision that defines quality here.
Approve the translation before audio, then produce every language together.
Audio, subtitles and transcripts for your LMS or marketplace.
One upload in, every format you need to publish out.
Including the ones where the honest answer is a limitation.
No — translate the explanation and keep the term. Learners need the source-language vocabulary to read documentation, search for errors and work professionally. Introduce each term with a plain description in their language on first use, then use the source term consistently. A locked glossary is what makes this reliable rather than accidental.
They stay exactly as they are. Code, commands, file paths and error strings must match what the learner sees on screen and will meet in practice, so they are pinned rather than translated. This needs configuring explicitly — an unconstrained pass will render them as prose.
For recorded content, localization does the heavy lifting. What it does not solve is the learner who wants to ask a question. Localized recordings plus a teaching assistant who speaks the language delivers most of the outcome benefit — learners disengage when they cannot be understood, more than when a recording is imperfect.
Version the source transcript as the authoritative artefact so every language flags stale when it changes, batch updates at a cohort or release boundary, and segment volatile tool walkthroughs away from stable fundamentals so a UI change re-localizes a clip rather than a module.
Practical guides from the Octavia editorial team.
The same engine, pointed at a different kind of work.
Start with the module where your drop-off is worst. That is usually where comprehension is the cause.