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Translate a YouTube video, no captions needed
Read the words of a video next to a translation in your language, line by line, with timestamps, even when it has no captions.
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Read the words of a video next to a translation in your language, line by line, with timestamps, even when it has no captions.
Trusted by 42,800+ creators
Sample video: 茂木敏充外務大臣会見（令和８年4月14日）, 11 minutes
0:15Speaker 1:ただいまより茂木大臣の定例会見を始めます。大臣お願いいたします。
0:18Speaker 2:はい。今日は私から発表、報告事項はありませんので、ご質問がありましたらお願いいたします。
0:26Speaker 1:それでは、ご質問のある方は挙手いただき、指名を受けましたら、お近くのマイクにお進みいただいて、社名、氏名についてご質問ください。産経新聞、永原さん。
0:38Speaker 3:産経新聞、永原です。よろしくお願いします。高市総理、明日15日、ポーランドのトゥスク首相と会談します。今月1日にはフランスのマクロン大統領が訪日し、日仏2プラス2も行われるなど、欧州との結束を確認する場面が相次いでいます。改めて日欧の連携の重要性について教えてください。また、6月にはフランスでサミットも開かれますが、日本の総理は、柴田前総理以降、欧州を訪れていません。欧州首脳の訪日が続いておりますけれども、日本の総理が欧州を訪問し、意思疎通を図る重要性について、お考えをお聞かせください。
0:15We will now begin Minister Motegi's regular press conference. Minister, please go ahead.
0:18Yes. I have no announcements or reports from my side today, so if you have any questions, please proceed.
0:26Those who have questions, please raise your hand, and once called upon, move to a nearby microphone and state your company name and your name before asking your question. Ms. Nagahara from Sankei Shimbun, please.
0:38I am Nagahara from Sankei Shimbun. Thank you. Prime Minister Takaichi will meet with Polish Prime Minister Tusk tomorrow, on the 15th. On the 1st of this month, French President Macron visited Japan, and the Japan-France 2+2 meeting was also held, demonstrating successive occasions to confirm solidarity with Europe. Could you tell us again about the importance of Japan-Europe cooperation? Also, a summit will be held in France in June, but no Japanese Prime Minister has visited Europe since former Prime Minister Shibata. Although visits by European leaders to Japan continue, please share your thoughts on the importance of the Japanese Prime Minister visiting Europe to communicate with them.
This is the Translate tab of a real job on the sample talk. One target language is active at a time; pick another and the translation runs again.
“It has really helped simplify the work and save time, especially when working on transcriptions, translations, and subtitles.”
Translating a YouTube video here means turning its speech into text and showing that text next to a translation in your language, line by line. The video keeps its own voice; you read the words.
茂木外務大臣の定例記者会見において、複数の外交課題に関する日本政府の見解が示された。欧州との関係について、大臣は欧州大西洋とインド太平洋の安全保障は不可分であるとし、サミット等の機会を通じて欧州各国の首脳や外相との意思疎通を図り、連携を強化する重要性を強調した。イラン情勢に関しては、ホルムズ海峡における自由で安全な航行の確保が国際社会全体にとって重要であり、最大限の外交努力を続けると述べた。また、ミャンマーにおける大統領選出等については他国の内政への言及を避けつつも、暴力の停止や対話を含む政治的進展の必要性を指摘した。大使派遣については現時点で未定としつつ、ミャンマー国民への直接的な人道支援を引き続き実施する方針を示した。
0:15Speaker 1:ただいまより茂木大臣の定例会見を始めます。大臣お願いいたします。
0:18Speaker 2:はい。今日は私から発表、報告事項はありませんので、ご質問がありましたらお願いいたします。
0:26Speaker 1:それでは、ご質問のある方は挙手いただき、指名を受けましたら、お近くのマイクにお進みいただいて、社名、氏名についてご質問ください。産経新聞、永原さん。
Real output of the sample job, unedited: the Japanese transcript and two translations from the Translate tab. A person chose which 30 seconds to show.
The video can be in any of the languages in the list, and the translation can go into any of them. The video's own language is detected, or you set it before the job starts. Pick the target from a box you can type into.
The video keeps its own voice. Nothing is dubbed, no voice is cloned and no audio is replaced. You read the translation next to the original words, in a normal browser tab, with the real video playing above it. Viewers who switched off YouTube's auto dubbing get the version they asked for: the speaker's voice and the words in their language.
| Feature | YouTube auto translate | YoutubeToText |
|---|---|---|
| Needs existing captions | Yes | No |
| Mobile and TV | Missing, as viewers report | Any browser |
| Original shown next to translation | No | Yes |
| Timestamps in the translation | No | Yes |
| Languages | Varies per video | 90+ |
| Export | No | TXT and DOCX |
The video's language is detected automatically. If you know it, set it before you start: that helps the engine.
Type the name of your language in the box and choose it. The whole transcript is translated with its speaker labels and timestamps in place.
A click on a line plays that moment in the video. Copy the translation, or export it as plain text or Word.
The Translate tab gives you the words in a browser, next to the video. If you want the words in the picture, so the episode plays on the TV with subtitles in your language, that is a different job. Choose Subtitles (Burned in) instead of Transcription, add your language as an extra language, and the result is an MP4 with the subtitles rendered into the frames, one video per language. It costs more minutes than a transcript: three times the video length at default quality, four times at 1080p and five times at 2160p, because the whole video is rendered again, plus one more time the video length for each extra language. For one episode a week that is still a small number. For reading along on a phone or laptop, the Translate tab on this page is the cheaper route and the translation itself adds no minutes at all.
Language learners use the two columns as a reader. Play a line in the original, read the translation, then play it again. Every line keeps its timestamp, so a click on the row replays that moment and you hear the sentence as it was spoken. There is no word-by-word hover and no dictionary popup: the product does not have one, and this page does not pretend it does. What you get is the full sentence in both languages, aligned by line, with the real audio one click away. Copy both versions into your notes app if you want to build your own list.
YouTube's auto translate is a translation of YouTube's auto captions. When the captions are wrong, the translation is wrong twice. Japanese and Korean viewers report this most, and it is the reason this page exists. Here the chain is shorter. The engine listens to the audio of the video and writes a fresh transcript in the spoken language. The translation is made from that transcript, not from the caption track, so a video whose captions are broken, missing or set to the wrong language starts from clean text. The quality still depends on the sound: a clear speaker with a good microphone comes out clean, a noisy street interview less so. Words the engine was unsure about are marked in the editor, so you know where to check.
Does anyone know how to see them with English subtitles? YouTube's auto translate is producing gibberish.
On mobile (YouTube app on Android, Firefox, Chrome) and my TV the 'Auto-translate' option is missing, so I can only view the generated subtitles in the original language.
Built this because Chrome's Live Caption is English-only and every 'translate any video' tool is paid SaaS.
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