Multilingual media streaming has become essential for maximizing audience’s reach and engagement in today’s competitive OTT landscape.
By producing content in multiple languages, content creators and media distributors successfully connect with diverse viewers worldwide.
DUBnSUB, a premier Dubbing & Subtitling Company, helps in producing high-quality dubbing, subtitles, and text-based translations in over 100 languages. Just name any language, and DUBnSUB will dub and translate your media content with unparalleled accuracy.
However, translating content alone is not sufficient to penetrate the global OTT viewership. The key to audience engagement and satisfaction also depends on how you deliver the content.
To ensure seamless video playback with dubbed audio and subtitles in multiple languages, you need a reliable streaming platform that supports multiple audio tracks, on-the-go language switching, and localized UI.
Muvi, a leading OTT platform provider, offers an end-to-end streaming solution with built-in multilingual features, ensuring real-time language selection, synchronized audio-subtitle tracks, and robust content delivery across devices.
In this blog, we’ll explore Muvi’s core multilingual capabilities and demonstrate how to leverage them to overcome language barriers and launch a white-label, multilingual streaming platform without any technical expertise.
Built-in Multilingual Features of Muvi
Multilingual streaming involves delivering content in multiple languages at the same time, allowing viewers to stream in their preferred language or toggle between languages they understand.
With Muvi, multi-language video/audio streaming is effortless as the platform comes with built-in multilingual features like:
- Multiple Audio Tracks Support – Be it for live or on-demand streaming, Muvi allows you to upload multiple language tracks for a single stream. This allows viewers to choose their preferred audio from a list of available dubbed tracks.
- Multiple Subtitle Support – Muvi allows you to upload multiple subtitles in multiple languages, making your content universally engaging. You can upload subtitles in popular formats such as SRT, VTT, and DFXP.
- Auto AI Caption Generation – Muvi comes with a built-in AI caption generator that instantly creates accurate captions for video/audio content in 31 major languages, making your content accessible to a global audience.
- Auto Geo Translation – Muvi’s location-based language translation automatically translates the website or app’s UI and content in the regional language, when a user logs in from that region.
- Real-Time Language Switching – Viewers can switch subtitle tracks and choose preferred audio tracks instantly during the playback, offering a seamless streaming experience for all supported languages.
- Multilingual SEO Support – Platforms built with Muvi gain SEO advantages like: adding language codes in URLs, updating the metadata and sitemap in regional languages, and adding auto-redirections, ensuring the site is optimized for all languages.
Now let’s move forward and see how to stream content in multiple languages with Muvi.
Step-by-Step Guide to Building a Multilingual Streaming Platform with Muvi
Muvi is a no-code, fully-featured streaming platform that is inclusive of everything – cloud hosting, powerful CDNs, unlimited storage & bandwidth, encoder, video/audio player, DRM, monetization engine, analytics, and more. You don’t need any further technical integrations.
By following the steps below, anyone can get started with Muvi. No coding – No technical expertise needed.
1. Choose a Muvi Product and Sign up
Muvi offers separate solutions for on-demand streaming, live streaming, online TV broadcasting, and media management. Select the product that fits your multilingual content strategy, then sign up for the free trial.
2. Add content to the library
After signing up, log in to Muvi’s CMS and upload your media assets. Provide appropriate metadata and categories for your content and save them for auto-encoding.
3. Add dubbed audio tracks and subtitles
In the CMS, upload multiple audio tracks and subtitle files, selecting the correct language for each. Once processed, all language tracks will be made available to the video.
4. Customize Your Video Player
Brand your player with logos or watermarks. Enable audio and subtitle selection so viewers can choose their language. You may also activate resolution selectors, playback speed controls, download buttons, and autoplay toggles.
5. Preview and Go Live
Verify the synchronized playback of audio and subtitles across devices and ensure streaming is fine. Go live instantly and start promoting your multilingual streaming platform for a maximum global reach.
Launch Your Multilingual Streaming Platform Today
As you know, DUBnSUB and Muvi have joined forces to redefine global OTT streaming by merging advanced language translation services with a robust streaming platform.
This strategic partnership pairs DUBnSUB’s best-in-class dubbing, subtitling, and voice-over capabilities—spanning over 100 languages—with Muvi’s all-in-one, no-code OTT solution featuring advanced multilingual support.
Together, they aim to help content creators and distributors launch and scale multilingual streaming services with quick turnaround times, enhanced viewer engagement, and seamless global reach.
Click here to get started with your streaming journey in multiple languages.