Most transcript tools give you the video's text in the language it was spoken. This one goes one step further: after extracting the transcript, it translates it into the language you read — while preserving every timestamp, so the result still works as subtitles.
How translation works here
- Paste a YouTube URL. The tool fetches the best available caption track (or transcribes the audio if there are none).
- Pick a target language — English, Spanish, French, German, Finnish, Japanese, and 100+ more.
- The transcript is translated segment by segment via machine translation (MyMemory by default; DeepL or OpenAI when configured).
- Download the translation as TXT, SRT, VTT, or JSON — timestamps intact.
Translated subtitles, not just text
Because translation happens on timestamped segments rather than a flat block of text, the output is directly usable as a translated subtitle track: import the SRT into your editor, or play the VTT in a browser. This is the quickest way to make a foreign-language video watchable in your own language.
What the quality is like
Machine translation is excellent for well-spoken content in major language pairs — lectures, news, tutorials, interviews. You will hit its limits with heavy slang, code-switching, or dense jargon. For those cases, treat the output as a strong first draft and polish the key passages yourself.
Use cases
- Language learning — follow along in your target language, then compare with the original.
- Content localization — draft subtitles for a video you are republishing.
- Research — read foreign-language talks, interviews, and lectures in your working language.
- Business — digest customer or competitor videos in languages you do not speak.
Frequently asked questions
Does it translate the official captions or a fresh transcription?
It translates whatever transcript source the video provides: native/official captions when they exist, or an AI transcription when the video has no caption track. You can pick a specific caption language first, then translate from that.
How good is the translation quality?
It uses production machine translation (MyMemory by default, with DeepL or OpenAI available). For well-spoken content in major language pairs it reads naturally; poetry, slang, and code-switching are where you will notice MT limits.
Can I download the translation as subtitles?
Yes — the translated segments keep their original timestamps, so you can export them as SRT, VTT, CSV, or JSON. There is also a bilingual SRT option with the original line under each translated line, for language learning.
Which languages are supported?
100+ languages via ISO 639-1 codes — e.g. en, es, fr, de, it, pt, nl, pl, ru, ja, ko, zh, fi, sv. Pick any supported target language in the UI or API.