Hello, I am new to this, so sorry if this is a silly question. For our MFL department. Is it possible to upload a video to stream that is in English say, and have the subtitles in French? Or vice versa? Thanks,

MissOC Tomislav Karafilov I use this tool: https://subtitlestranslator.com/ for translating my VTT files. It translates them with Google translate and keeps the original formatting. I then go through the files via wordpad and correct the typical language errors Google makes, but it makes the process far easier and faster.

MissOCIt is possible, but Stream can only generate a transcript and can not translate it. You upload a video that is in English. Microsoft Stream can generate the transcript for you. Than you download the transcript, translate it to French and upload it as French subtitle. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/stream/portal-add-subtitles-captions And here is a solution example to automatically generate video sub-title in another language I saw some days ago: https://github.com/FBoucher/Cloud5VideoHelper

Tomislav Karafilov A text editor like Word or Notepad? The text is split up into timed sections which is a pain (see below). I was hoping to be able to paste the text into a translator, but couldn't with the timestamps everywhere. Is there no other more practical solution. Thanks so much for your help by the way. WEBVTTNOTE duration:"00:05:19"NOTE language:en-usNOTE Confidence: 0.8957264400:00:00.120 --> 00:00:04.454Hey everybody, this is a videoabout Microsoft Stream which isNOTE Confidence: 0.8957264400:00:04.454 --> 00:00:09.182a little bit like sort of likeYouTube, but like an internalNOTE Confidence: 0.8957264400:00:09.182 --> 00:00:14.304one for the kind of a or for thewhole Education Department. So

Tomislav Karafilov Hello, you are right, that's sounds like too much. It was to be used by a Languages teaching department and sounds like more hassle than its worth. I'll send a plea to the developers! Thanks so much for your help 👏

Tomislav Karafilov Hello, I tried to add subtitles in a second language to one of my videos, but the subtitles in the second language are just not shown.I downloaded the original .vtt-file (it was in german) and translated it (to englisch) and afterwards added it as it is shown on the microsoft help website.Now I change the settings in the video player to the english subtitles, but they just won't appear. As I am pretty sure, I did nothing wrong with the upload, so I guess there is a problem with the .vtt-file?

Microsoft Stream 2nd Language Subtitles

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Iaoceot
Former Employee
Jul 07, 2022
why Microsoft Stream can't have this tool like youtube ?
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/youtube-dual-subtitles/hkbdddpiemdeibjoknnofflfgbgnebcm?hl=zh-CN
Tomislav Karafilov
MVP
Jun 12, 2020
MissOCIt is possible, but Stream can only generate a transcript and can not translate it.

You upload a video that is in English. Microsoft Stream can generate the transcript for you. Than you download the transcript, translate it to French and upload it as French subtitle. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/stream/portal-add-subtitles-captions

And here is a solution example to automatically generate video sub-title in another language I saw some days ago: https://github.com/FBoucher/Cloud5VideoHelper
- TerranIncognito
  Copper Contributor
  May 04, 2021
  Tomislav Karafilov nice find on the GitHub project! Appreciate your response here.
- it1992
  Copper Contributor
  Apr 28, 2021
  Tomislav Karafilov
  Hello, I tried to add subtitles in a second language to one of my videos, but the subtitles in the second language are just not shown.
  I downloaded the original .vtt-file (it was in german) and translated it (to englisch) and afterwards added it as it is shown on the microsoft help website.
  Now I change the settings in the video player to the english subtitles, but they just won't appear.
  
  As I am pretty sure, I did nothing wrong with the upload, so I guess there is a problem with the .vtt-file?
  - Tomislav Karafilov
    MVP
    May 04, 2021
    Hi it1992 ! I downloaded an automatic generated caption file, changed some text and reuploaded it as an english subtitle. An "Apply" for this change in Microsoft Stream was not necessary. In the video player I had to turn on "Captions / Subtitles" and could see the subtitle. Try this. If this works for you, than your edited vtt file maybe is buggy.
- MissOC
  Brass Contributor
  Jun 12, 2020
  Tomislav Karafilov Ah ok, thank you. And what program do you use to open the .vtt file so that it can be translated?
  - Tomislav Karafilov
    MVP
    Jun 12, 2020
    MissOC It is a simple text based file. Just use a text editor of your choice and just edit the "text", not the control information. There may be a separate tool for this. I can't recommend any of them because I don't use them myself.

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