Lecture Languages
A video lecture is narrated in one language, with its captions and on-screen text to match. You can have the same lecture in another language without building it again from your source.
There are two routes, and which one you get depends on why you want it.
| Situation | What you get | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| The lecture came out in a language you don't read | A free remake in your language, offered on the lecture page | Free, once per lecture |
| You want the same lecture in an additional language | Another language, a new version alongside the original | 1 AI Creation Credit |
Another Language
On a finished lecture, open Another language.
Pick a language and a voice, and press Make {language} version. The button shows the cost and a time estimate before you commit.
What Carries Over, and What Changes
The expensive part of a lecture is its structure, and that is reused:
- The same scenes, in the same order.
- The same figures, diagrams, charts, and equations pulled from your source.
What is rewritten:
- The narration, written natively in the new language rather than translated word for word.
- The captions.
- The on-screen text: titles, labels, and bullet points.
Because the narration is written natively rather than translated line by line, the new version often runs a little longer or shorter than the original. The length follows the new narration. Right-to-left languages are laid out right-to-left, and pages turn in the correct direction.
It Makes a New Lecture
The original stays exactly as it is. The new language is a separate lecture with its own page, and the two are linked.
On either one you will see Also in, listing every language version of that lecture, with the first one marked Original. A version still being made shows as in progress. One tap moves between them.
If you ask for a language the lecture already has, Scholarly tells you and offers Open it rather than charging you twice.
Cost
One AI Creation Credit per language version, regardless of the model the original used. Long-lecture credits still apply if the new version crosses 15 or 30 minutes. See Plans and Limits.
The Free Remake
Sometimes a lecture is narrated in a language you cannot read, your source was in one language and the result came out in another.
When that happens, the lecture page offers Remake in {language}, in the language you use the app in. It is free, once for that lecture, and keeps the same source, length, and style. It does not use an AI Creation Credit, and the notice says so before you start.
This is a correction, not an extra. If you want a third language after that, use Another language above.
Choosing the Language Up Front
Setting the language before you create is cheaper than fixing it afterwards. In the create window, the language control offers:
- Auto: follows your source's language. A premium model on Auto stays in the source's language rather than drifting to another one.
- A specific language: overrides the source.
If you type a language into your instructions ("narrate this in Korean"), what you typed wins over the create window's default.
Your app language and your AI output language are two different settings. Changing the app language offers to change AI output too, and you can set them separately. See Languages in Scholarly.
When It Can't Be Done
A few lectures cannot be re-narrated, generally the ones whose on-screen text is inseparable from its narration. The option says so and points you at creating a new lecture in the language you need instead.
If starting a version fails, nothing is charged and you can try again.
Good to Know
- Each language version is its own item in your library, with its own share link, transcript, and listening mode.
- Interactive questions are rewritten with the narration, so they are answerable in the new language.
- Slides made from the lecture follow the language of the version you made them from.
- Deleting one version does not affect the others.
- Narration in languages other than English is spoken by our multilingual voices. See Narration Voices.
Related
- Video Lectures: making one, scenes, chapters, captions, and quality.
- Languages in Scholarly: interface language, AI output language, and narration.
- Narration Voices: who reads a lecture out loud.
- Listening to a Video Lecture: audio playback and sending it to your phone.
- Plans and Limits: what a creation costs.