I have heard that you can use Adobe Express to translate text. Let’s try it.
To start with logging into Adobe Express is weird for us. You login with your email address instead of selecting login with Google. Once you launch Adobe Express from ClassLink you will get the login screen on which you type your email on the login line. Then you will get a popup on which you will select school account. THAT should get you logged in.
First thing I want to try is to translate an existing PDF document.
I uploaded a pdf from my computer to Adobe Express. It said it worked and had translated it but DID NOT translate at all. Perhaps it didn’t recognize the text and just made the paragraphs image blocks.
However! When I copied text into a new Adobe express file it translated it flawlessly (as far as I know, I mean it functioned as intended). So if importing a pdf does not work for you copy and paste the text from the PDF into a new Adobe Express file.
I did have to adjust the font size and apply some spacing and line breaks to match my original format. Here is my fake letter home from a fictional school district in 17 extra languages, produced almost instantly.
“Don’t ask me how I did it. I just did it.”
Now let’s try a video with spoken audio
I have uploaded my video to Adobe Express and I see the translate button up at the top on the tool bar. That wasn’t it. That only wants to translate text. I’ll keep digging. I found an option to use Adobe Express to convert text to speech. Ope! Bummer we don’t have access to that, oh it uses AI, that must be why it is disabled.
