116 hours
“Saved 116 hours of video production time”
As published on descript.com. Captured by usedby on Oct 2, 2026.
What happened
Algolia's customer enablement team uses Descript to cut long Academy courses into short videos and to translate captions and audio into several languages. They also use AI voice cloning to update existing courses without re-recording, and invite native speakers to review translations.
Summary written by usedby from the source page, in English. The figures are those of Descript and Algolia, not ours.
- 58“Published 58 translated videos in two months”
- 93%“Their new French Academy videos achieve 93% retention rates and 94% course completion, actually outperforming their successful English counterparts at 83% and 88% respectively.”
- 29 hours“With this workflow, they estimate they’re saving 30 minutes for every 5-minute video, which translates to 29 hours saved across their English Academy updates alone.”
With this workflow, they estimate they’re saving 30 minutes for every 5-minute video, which translates to 29 hours saved across their English Academy updates alone.
If your plan is to scale your academy large and globally, and you have a small team that you need to make mighty, Descript is a really powerful companion to have.
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- The figure: 116 hoursCheckedPrinted word for word on the page, near the name of Algolia.
- The passage quoted aboveCheckedCopied word for word from the page, near the name of Algolia.
- Algolia uses DescriptCheckedConfirmed line. Latest check across sources: Oct 2, 2026.
- The result itselfNot checkedWe quote it; we did not measure it.
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