This Just In: Translated Embed Players!

We are pleased to announce that the Omny Studio embed players, used millions of times each week around the world, are now available in multiple languages.

An Omny Studio playlist embed player on the Curiouscast (Ca) website

With the help of our impressively multilingual team, we enabled a number of new translations for the Omny Studio embed players over the last month. Translated players will be applied automatically based on the default language of the user’s browser.

OK Cozy up! A popular news podcast from Nippon Broadcasting in Japan

What languages other than English are currently supported?

• French (Continental French and French Canadian)
• Spanish
• Portuguese (Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese)
• Japanese
• German
• Czech
• Malay
• Dutch
• Danish
• Italian
• Turkish
• Hebrew (with RTL support)
• Arabic (with RTL support)

Hayot Kiss — a podcast from Globes in Israel

Fun Facts

We couldn’t just run the words through a translation engine, as there are subtle nuances that only a native speaker could account for.

Here are a couple interesting tidbits related to this translation project:

• Unlike most other translations, we didn’t translate ‘powered by’ in ‘powered by Omny Studio’ to Japanese because, according to our translator, it looks more natural if those words remain in English.

• For the right-to-left player, the progress bar and play button still goes from left to right. Guidelines from Google and Spotify recommend this ‘as they refer to the direction of tape being played, not the direction of time’.

Audio plays left to right. Text reads right to left.

• Apple offers the Apple Podcasts badge artwork with the words “Listen on” translated into many languages. Never translate the words “Apple Podcasts”. Localized badge artwork is available in Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Maltese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish (Spain), Spanish (Latin America), Swedish, Thai, Turkish, and Vietnamese.

Apple Podcasts Japanese badge

Which languages are next?

If there are specific languages that you’d like to see, we’d love to hear from you! Please contact us at support@omnystudio.com

Thanks to all of our translators so far!