Video Translator

Your browser opens the video, strips the picture away and keeps the sound. Only the audio is sent — first to be written down, then to be translated. You get subtitle files, .srt and .vtt, with the original line next to each translated one.

  • The video stays on your disk
  • No account
  • No watermark
  • 5 pages a day free
Drop your files hereor click to chooseOne video at a time. The first file in the list is used.

Your files

    Nothing chosen yet.

    What leaves your computer

    The sound, and then the words in it. Your browser opens the video on your own disk and writes out a small mono audio track; that track is sent to be transcribed, and the transcript is sent to be translated. Neither can be done here on your machine. The video itself — the picture, the file, everything visible in it — never goes anywhere. Saying that plainly is better than rounding it down to "nothing is uploaded".

    How the pages are counted

    One page is one minute of audio, counted on our side from the audio we actually receive, not from anything your browser claims. The transcript is charged a second time as text when it is translated, at 3000 characters per page — around one extra page for every three minutes of speech. When the day's pages run out the tool stops until tomorrow. Paid pages are not on sale yet. The free allowance is 5 pages a day.

    What this does not do

    It does not put subtitles into the picture. Burning them in means re-encoding the whole video, which would take longer than everything else here put together, and you would lose the ability to edit a line afterwards. You get .srt and .vtt files instead. Videos are capped at 30 minutes, the audio is sent in two-minute pieces so a word on a boundary can be lost, and the transcript is written by a model that mishears names and crosstalk like every other one.

    Why this one

    What you get that the big converters cannot offer.

    The picture never leaves the machine

    The video engine runs inside this page and writes out a small mono audio track. A one-hour recording is about 14 MB of audio against several gigabytes of video, and the video part of it is never read by anyone but you.

    Subtitle files, not a re-encoded video

    You get .srt and .vtt. Nothing is burned into the picture — the file you already have stays untouched, and any player can load a subtitle file next to it.

    Both languages come back

    The transcript is kept alongside the translation, in the preview and in a second .srt. When a line reads oddly you can see what was actually said instead of guessing.

    Metered because it genuinely costs money

    Writing down speech and translating it both run on paid models. That is why there is a daily allowance here while every other tool on this site is unlimited — those run on your own processor and cost us nothing.

    How to use it

    Choose a video and pick the language you want the subtitles in.

    The sound is pulled out on your own machine, then sent two minutes at a time to be written down and translated. You can watch it move.

    Download the translated .srt or .vtt, and the original-language .srt if you want it.

    When people use it

    A lecture or a talk in a language you half-follow

    Subtitles let you check the sentences you missed instead of replaying the same thirty seconds.

    Footage you are not allowed to upload

    Interviews, customer calls, internal recordings. The audio still has to be sent to be transcribed, but the video and everything visible in it stays on your disk.

    Giving a clip subtitles before you share it

    A .srt next to the file is enough for most players, and you can edit the lines before anyone sees them.

    Questions

    Is my video uploaded?

    No. The video is opened by your browser and the audio track is extracted on your own machine. That audio is sent to be transcribed and the resulting text is sent to be translated, because neither can be done without a model. The video file, and everything visible in it, stays on your computer.

    What exactly do I get?

    Three files if you want them: the translated subtitles as .srt and as .vtt, and the original-language transcript as .srt. No new video is produced and nothing is burned into the picture — that would mean re-encoding the whole file, which this tool does not do.

    How is the allowance counted?

    One page is one minute of audio, and the transcript is charged again as text when it is translated — roughly one extra page for every three minutes of speech. With 5 free pages a day that is about four minutes of video per day, start to finish.

    How long can the video be?

    Thirty minutes. Past that the browser is holding too much at once and the wait stops being reasonable. For a longer recording, cut the part you need with the Video Cutter first — that step runs entirely on your machine.

    How accurate is it?

    Clear single-speaker speech comes out well. Names, jargon, crosstalk, heavy accents and music underneath all cost accuracy, and the translation is machine translation on short lines with little context around them. The audio is sent in two-minute pieces, so a word landing exactly on a boundary can be lost. Read it as a good draft, not a transcript of record.

    What if the video has no speech?

    You get told that nothing was heard, and the pages are put back. Silence, music without vocals and unrecognisable noise all end the same way.

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