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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
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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.
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.
Sample coming soon. Paste your own link above to see the real thing.
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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