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Use the localization setting to provide multiple language options for the captions of your webinar.

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Written by Jennifer
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The localization feature allows you your attendees to view webinar captions in multiple languages.

The localization feature is available as an add-on for Premium plans and included by default in Enterprise plans. Basic plans cannot use localization.

Activating localization

Follow these steps to enable localization:

  1. Go to 'Account' > 'My account'.

  2. Click 'Localization'.

  3. Use the 'Translatable languages' dropdown menu to select the language you want to add, then click 'Add language' to save it.

The localization feature has your account and browser languages selected by default.

An image of the localization feature settings in a WebinarGeek account

You can set up to 5 different languages maximum.

New webinars will automatically have their captions translated to the languages you set here. You can, for example, hold a webinar in English and have English captions by default. With these selected languages you would also have French and Dutch captions.

Translation settings for public pages

Follow these steps to configure your settings for translating landing pages:

  1. Go to 'Account' > 'My account'.

  2. Click 'Localization'.

  3. Click 'Settings'.

'Allow visitors to change the language of registration and webinars pages' toggles your visitors' ability to use the language selector at the top right of your registration and webinar pages. When this is disabled, visitors can only view these pages in the webinar language.

'Automatically translate content on public pages' toggles AI translation of custom text on registration pages such as your webinar summary when another language is selected for the page by the visitor.

Please note that disabling the first setting automatically also disables the second one.

An image of the localization settings in a WebinarGeek account

Translating captions of old webinars

You can also translate captions of older webinars, as long as it has a transcript to other languages. For this go to the 'Videos' page, then click on options at the webinar you wish to have captions translated. Then select transcript.

An image of the options menu for a video in the 'Videos' page

A window will open where you can view the video's transcripts.

An image of a video's transcriptions window

To add another language, click the '+' button. A menu will open where you can select a language to add. Please note that you can only select languages here that you've configured in your 'Localization' settings

Once you press schedule translation the process begins and in about 10 minutes the new caption language will be available.

Keywords: translation, captions, subtitles, localization, language

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