When Audioask launched in June, translation was on the list of things we were still working on. It is not on that list any more — it is available to everyone, today.
In practice, that means a podcast recorded in English, German or Japanese becomes readable — and listenable — in your own language. Here is what ships, and how to use it.
What you get today
Three things, chained together so you do not have to think about them:
- A translated transcript, aligned with the original one, timestamp by timestamp. You keep both versions side by side.
- A dubbed audio episode, generated from that translation: a real audio file that keeps the pace of the conversation.
- One voice per speaker, picked from the catalogue of ten and remembered for that podcast.
And because the translated transcript is indexed like any other, everything that already worked keeps working on it: full-text search, bookmarks, and questions put to the episode — in your language, with citations that point back to the right passage.
Twelve languages
French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Arabic. All twelve are available for the translated text and for dubbed audio — there is no second-tier language.
An audio episode, not just text
This is the part we are proudest of. Plenty of tools translate a transcript. Producing an episode you can actually listen to on your commute is a different problem.
Audioask detects the speakers, assigns each one a distinct voice, and generates a complete audio file. For a one-hour episode, expect a few minutes. What comes out sounds like an episode — not like a screen reader working through a document.
Voices are set once per podcast: later episodes are dubbed with the same ones, with nothing to set up again.
Every translation benefits everyone
Like transcripts, translations feed the shared library. If someone has already translated an episode into your language, you get it instantly, without spending anything from your quota.
Put differently: the more the community translates, the less everyone waits. It is the same collaborative model that makes transcription fast on popular podcasts, applied to translation.
Translate every new episode automatically
Translation combines with automations. Set it up once, on a podcast you follow: every new episode gets transcribed, translated, dubbed, and dropped into your library — in the language you picked.
You wake up with today’s episode already waiting in English. You did not start anything.
Which plan do you need?
Transcript translation and dubbed audio are both included in the Premium plan, at €3/month.
One detail worth knowing: transcription and dubbing draw on the same monthly quota, at two different rates. Transcribing an hour of episode costs an hour; dubbing it costs five. Premium’s 5 hours are therefore 5 hours of transcription or 1 hour of dubbed audio — Pro’s 20 hours, 20 hours of transcription or 4 hours of dubbing.
The full picture is on the pricing page, with the monthly / annual toggle.
Where to start
The Translate page walks through the details: the side-by-side bilingual transcript, voice selection, how it chains with automations, and answers to the questions that come up most — dubbing quality, turnaround, supported languages.
The best test is still an episode you genuinely care about, in a language you do not speak. That is where you feel what it unlocks.
— The Audioask team, Geneva
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