With Book Creator you can translate content into 100+ languages to support all of your students and their families.

List of supported languages

Translations is available to teachers who use Book Creator Premium as part of their School or District purchase or who have individually purchased. Teachers on the free plan can also try out the translation features a few times for free. Teachers are able to translate text (including text in the commenting feature), audio transcriptions, video captions, and even entire books.

Teachers on either a free or premium plan can enable student access for translations from the library settings. The teacher can choose to allow students to translate text (including text in the commenting feature), audio transcripts, video captions, and entire books. Translation is defaulted to off for student use in the library settings.

You can easily translate text in the text editor, choosing from over 100 supported languages. You can also right click on any existing text and pick Translate from the menu, or use the Inspector (the i button).

Teachers and students can translate comments on a book to ensure your feedback and their responses are all being understood. Just click on the 3 dots next to a comment and choose Translate.

Note: At this time audio and video comments cannot be translated.

Subtitles, or captions, can be added to a video through right click or by using the video's Inspector (the i button). First you need to add captions to your video in the original language of the recording. Book Creator has a built-in editor to make this easy, it can even do it for you automatically.

Read this: Add captions to your video

With your captions added you can then return to the video's Inspector (the i button) and click on Add translation then choose your translation language. This can also be found by using the right click and choosing Translate in the menu.

If you want your translated subtitles to show as the default you can set them in the Inspector (the i button) using the 3 dot menu.

Recorded audio can be translated and Book Creator will generate a new audio file using a realistic sounding voice in the language of your choosing. To get started right click on an audio icon and choose Translate. Alternatively you can do this through the Inspector (the i button).

First you will need to add a textual transcription of your audio in the original language. Book Creator can attempt this for you automatically and you can then review and edit it for accuracy. With the transcript in place, you can choose the language you wish to translate to, pick from a selection of voices, and Book Creator will then generate a new audio recording for your page.

Finally, you can translate entire books in Book Creator, by choosing Translate Book from the book menu in your library.

Note: Book translation will not automatically translate audio files or video captions as the user needs to manually review the generated transcript/captions prior to translation.

We recommend reviewing the new book once it has completed translation as some sentences may have changed length and your layout may need small adjustments.

We use the same technology as Google Translate for translations but rest assured that no data sent for translation is retained by Google or used for any other purpose by them. We use the translations services within Google Cloud which operate under a different terms of service to the consumer facing Google Translate at translate.google.com.