Course offering now also in English
Subtitles in two languages
There are many courses and videos on FileMaker in the English-speaking world. In German-speaking countries, the selection is modest. That’s why we started offering German FileMaker courses. However, we wanted to offer courses in English as well. The challenge was the multilingual structure. We have now worked out a solution for this.
Maintaining multilingual websites is time-consuming. This is already true for texts, but it is even more true for videos or course offerings. Videos are narrated. Until now, multilingual videos had to be narrated multiple times. This is extraordinarily labor intensive, especially for course content. It has so far prevented us from producing more courses for fmstarter.com.
Mediation of course content
In a training course, course content is conveyed linguistically. Online courses are no different. However, some people are happy when the spoken word is accompanied by subtitles. This simplifies the recording of course content. Videos with subtitles are watched more often than videos without subtitles. In addition, there are many people with impaired hearing. There, subtitles are essential to fully follow the spoken word.
Subtitles are standard today. With the help of artificial intelligence, the spoken word can be analyzed and converted into subtitles.
Subtitles in two languages
With these new capabilities, we can record courses in almost any language and add various subtitles. On the website fmstarter.com we will offer subtitles in German and English. This makes the same course content accessible to more people.
Course offering now also in English
Until now, the course offering was only available in German and the course dashboard was only accessible on the German side. This has now been expanded. The English page of the website now also features the course offering.
The first course “Add-On Lab Pro” is now also available with English subtitles. This provides 15 videos with subtitles in two languages. Part of the course is the software “Add-On Lab Pro”, a FileMaker solution for managing and editing Add-On files. The software as well as the examples are in English. The course is German spoken and subtitles are available in German and English.
New course development
For years, we have been producing German-language videos about FileMaker for the com2publish.ch learning platform. It’s time to release new course content for the fmstarter.com site. With the structure outlined here, this is also possible in multiple languages.