Translate an English video into Chinese subtitles
English content in a Chinese market needs Chinese subtitles, and machine captions from the platform rarely produce them cleanly. This does it from the audio, not from YouTube's caption track.
You get an SRT you can edit, or a copy of the video with the line already burned in.
source · EnglishWe're leaving for the airport at ten tomorrow morning.
Chinese subtitle我们明天上午十点出发去机场。
00:00:12,480 → 00:00:15,120 · timecodes unchanged
Open the translator
Free under 60 seconds, no account. Longer videos: 1 credit per minute.
What happens to your video
- Upload the file or paste a public link. Phone footage (HEVC/MOV) is read as it comes off the phone.
- The audio is transcribed first, with word-level timing, so every cue starts where speech starts.
- Each line is translated on its own. Timecodes are copied through and never rewritten.
- Download the SRT, or a copy of the video with the subtitles burned in at the original resolution.
Notes on the audio
- Mandarin has no tense endings, so 我吃了 / 我在吃 / 我要吃 are the same verb with different particles. The English tense is inferred from context and time words.
- Short-form Chinese runs fast and cuts mid-sentence, which makes line breaks harder than in long-form content.
- A Chinese character carries more meaning than an English word, so the same line takes far less room in Chinese than in the English translation. Expect the subtitle to grow by roughly a third when it comes back.
What it costs
Free under 60sno signup, no watermark
1 credit / minute$1 buys 20 credits
Both outputsSRT, or burned-in video
Questions
Will the Chinese lines be too long for the screen?
Lines are kept short, but Chinese usually runs longer than the English source, so a manual pass on line breaks is worth doing. A Chinese character carries more meaning than an English word, so the same line takes far less room in Chinese than in the English translation. Expect the subtitle to grow by roughly a third when it comes back.
Does it use YouTube's auto-captions?
No. It transcribes the audio itself, so it also works for files with no captions at all.
Can I get both languages?
Yes, bilingual output keeps the English line above the Chinese one.
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