# How Algolia uses Descript

**116 hours**: “Saved 116 hours of video production time”

As published on [descript.com](https://www.descript.com/customers/algolia). Captured by usedby on 2026-10-02.

- Company: [Algolia](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/algolia.md)
- Tool: [Descript](https://www.usedby.ai/tools/descript.md)
- Industry: [DevTools & Infrastructure](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/industry/devtools-infrastructure.md)
- Teams: Customer Enablement & Success

## What the story says

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.

> 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.

- **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.”

> 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.
>
> Gabriel Caudill, Senior Enablement and Digital Customer Success Manager

## What usedby checked

We compared the story with its live page on 2026-10-03.

- Checked: the figure 116 hours is printed word for word on the page, near the name of Algolia.
- Checked: the passage quoted above is copied word for word from the page, near the name of Algolia.
- Checked: Algolia uses Descript. Confirmed line. Latest check across sources: 2026-10-02.
- Not checked: the result itself. We quote it; we did not measure it.

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