Every panellist on their own voice
Diarization separates moderator, panellists and audience questions, so a dubbed panel still plays as a discussion rather than a monologue.
For events & conferences
An event lasts a few days; its recordings are where much of the audience actually meets the content. Octavia turns keynotes, panels and breakouts into a session library in attendees’ languages once the event is over — every speaker kept distinct, and voiced in their own voice only where they have agreed to it.
The specific reasons this content usually stays in one language.
Recordings go up in whatever language was spoken on stage, so the attendees who struggled in the room struggle again on replay.
Moderators, interruptions and audience questions are exactly where automated workflows lose track of who said what.
Most speaker agreements cover recording and distributing a talk — not a synthetic version of the speaker presenting it in another language.
The parts of the platform that matter for this work, rather than the full feature list.
Diarization separates moderator, panellists and audience questions, so a dubbed panel still plays as a discussion rather than a monologue.
Translated subtitle tracks for every session, with reading-speed and line-length rules applied — the economical way to make the full library usable in each language.
Where a speaker agrees, their voice carries into the translated version under their control; otherwise a professional voice per language, or subtitles alone.
Sponsors, speakers, product names and session titles pinned in a glossary, so the partner who paid for the stage is named correctly in every language.
Submit every breakout from every track together, so the library launches complete in each language instead of trickling out over months.
Magic Mode separates speech from applause, walk-on music and room tone, so a dubbed session still sounds as if it happened in front of an audience.
Four steps from the file you already have to every language you need.
Session files, plus a list of which speakers agreed to voice translation and which are subtitled only.
Sponsor names, speaker names, product names and session titles, pinned before translation.
Dub the keynotes and most-watched tracks; subtitle the long tail across the board.
Dubbed sessions, subtitle tracks and transcripts per language on the event platform or channel.
One upload in, every format you need to publish out.
Including the ones where the honest answer is a limitation.
No. Octavia works on recordings, after the session has happened. For people in the room or watching the stream, you still need simultaneous interpreters or a live captioning service. Where Octavia helps is everything afterwards: the session library, the highlight clips and the on-demand catalogue that attendees and non-attendees rely on long after the event. Plan the two as separate budget lines.
To voice them in their own voice, yes — and most standard speaker agreements do not cover it, because they were written for filming and distribution. Add a clear, optional clause to next year’s speaker agreement. For this year’s recordings, voice the speakers who say yes and subtitle the rest; a subtitled keynote is still a perfectly good keynote.
Structured panels with a moderator and individual microphones work well: each speaker is separated and voiced on their own. Two things degrade results, as they would in any workflow — sustained crosstalk, and audience questions picked up only by a distant room mic. A question that is inaudible on the recording cannot be translated reliably, so have moderators repeat questions on mic.
Non-native speech, strong accents and dense jargon all lower transcription accuracy, and an error in the transcript carries into every language. That is why the transcript is reviewed before translation: fix names, terms and misheard phrases once in the source and every language benefits. Octavia does not translate text on slides, so slide-heavy sessions need their decks localized separately.
Practical guides from the Octavia editorial team.
The same engine, pointed at a different kind of work.
Start with last year’s three most-watched sessions, in the language your registrations show growing fastest.