Forum Discussion
Microsoft Stream 2nd Language Subtitles
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 nice find on the GitHub project! Appreciate your response here.
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?
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.
Tomislav Karafilov Ah ok, thank you. And what program do you use to open the .vtt file so that it can be translated?
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.
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.
WEBVTT
NOTE duration:"00:05:19"
NOTE language:en-us
NOTE Confidence: 0.89572644
00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:04.454
Hey everybody, this is a video
about Microsoft Stream which isNOTE Confidence: 0.89572644
00:00:04.454 --> 00:00:09.182
a little bit like sort of like
YouTube, but like an internalNOTE Confidence: 0.89572644
00:00:09.182 --> 00:00:14.304
one for the kind of a or for the
whole Education Department. So
