Pay-as-you-go transcript translations for videos in Microsoft 365

Overview

Working in a multi-lingual organization?  Make your content more inclusive by creating videos that your coworkers can easily view and understand in their primary language. Transcript translations give you the option to translate the transcript and closed captions of videos into over 100 supported languages. Once translated, viewers can choose the translated transcript and captions while watching the video.

Microsoft 365 provides a robust and affordable pay-as-you-go solution for your video transcript translation needs.

Prerequisites

To use pay-as-you go, you need:

• An Azure subscription in the same tenant as Microsoft 365

• An Azure resource group in that subscription

If you already have these resources for other purposes, you can also use them with document processing.

For information about how to create an Azure subscription, see: Create your initial Azure subscriptions.

For information about how to create an Azure resource group, see: Manage Azure resource groups by using the Azure portal.

Set up pay-as-you-go billing

To learn how, go to: Configure pay-as-you-go billing.

Set up document processing for Microsoft 365

To learn how, go to:​​​​​​​ Set up document processing.

Enable transcript translations in Microsoft 365 admin center

You must have Global admin or AI admin permissions to be able to access the Microsoft 365 admin center and enable transcript translations. You should already have set up pay-as-you-go billing as well as set up document processing.

1. Go to Microsoft 365 admin center 

2. On the left navigation panel, click Setup

3. Scroll down until you locate the Files and content section, and click the Use content AI with Microsoft Syntex option 

4. Once in Use content AI with Microsoft Syntex, and below Get started, locate and click the Manage Microsoft Syntex card                                 

5. The navigation panel will open on the right.  Locate, and click the Video option 

6. To change the Status, click on the Edit link 

7. To enable Video translations, click the toggle switch to On and click on the Save button 

8. Finally, click the Back arrow on the top left panel corner, and validate that Video translation Status has been set to On. You can Close  the panel now. 

9. You should now be able to translate transcripts in videos in Microsoft 365.  See the next section for more information.

How to translate transcripts for videos in Microsoft 365 

Video owners can translate an existing transcript in over 100 different languages, and make them readily available, as transcripts and closed captions, for all video viewers.

To translate a transcript, select Video settings on the right side of the web player. Expand the Transcripts and captions section if closed, then select Translate.

In the Translate dialog select the transcript you want to translate in the From language dropdown. And the language in which the transcript will be translated in the Translate to dropdown.

Then, select Translate. 

Depending on the video length, translating the transcript can take a few minutes.

The newly translated transcript will be listed in the Transcripts and captions section with the same available functionality of every transcript like: downloading, deleting, replacing, searching, and editing. For more information on transcript capabilities, see: View, edit, and manage video transcripts and captions.

​​​​​​​

At his time, the newly translated transcript will be available for all video viewers as closed captions, or in the transcript pane.