Translate Video to English — Free AI, No Upload
Translate speech in any of ~100 languages into English text, privately in your browser — free, no signup.
🌍 The spoken language is detected automatically and the transcript comes out in that same language. Set it manually above if your audio is hard to hear, and use Output to translate into English.
What exactly is downloaded — and is it safe?
- • The speech model is OpenAI's Whisper, open source, converted to run in browsers. The audio engine is FFmpeg, the open-source tool behind most video software.
- • They come from Hugging Face and unpkg — public repositories used by researchers and developers worldwide, not from us.
- • They are not programs. Nothing is installed, no permission is asked, and your browser keeps them in its own cache exactly like it keeps a website's images.
- • They can't read your files or touch anything outside this page. Remove them any time by clearing this site's data in your browser.
- • Your audio never goes the other way: this site has no server receiving files.
Drop your video or audio here or click to choose
transcribed on your device by OpenAI's Whisper — your recording is not uploaded
ℹ️ Use a recording on your device that you own or have permission to process. This tool cannot fetch YouTube or social video links. Start with a short clip. Larger models can improve accuracy but require more memory and download data. Processing time varies by device, model and recording length. Always review the result.
Whisper, the speech model this tool runs in your browser, has a superpower most people miss: it was trained to translate into English while it transcribes — one pass, no separate translation service, no extra cost. Drop in a video or audio recording in Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese or ~100 other languages, pick the spoken language, and get fluent English text out.
Because it runs entirely on your device, this works for exactly the content you would never send to an online translator: business calls with foreign suppliers, interviews, voice messages, internal meetings. The honest limits: translation quality is very good for clear speech and common languages, dips with heavy slang or crosstalk — and the target language is English only (that is what Whisper natively supports; other targets would require a second model).
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- Transcribe Spanish Audio to Text — Free, No Upload
- Transcribe Portuguese Audio to Text — Free, No Upload
- Transcribe French Audio to Text — Free & Private, No Sign-up
- Transcribe German Audio to Text — Free, No Upload, Private
- Transcribe Italian Audio to Text — Free & Private
- Transcribe Hindi Audio to Text — Free, No Upload
- Transcribe Arabic Audio to Text — Free, Private, In-Browser
- Transcribe Chinese Audio to Text — Free, No Upload
- Transcribe Japanese Audio to Text — Free & Private, No Sign-up
- Transcribe Russian Audio to Text — Free, No Upload
- Transcribe English Audio to Text — Free, No Upload
- Transcribe Korean Audio to Text — Free, No Upload
- Transcribe Dutch Audio to Text — Free, No Upload
- Transcribe Polish Audio to Text — Free, No Upload
- Transcribe Czech Audio to Text — Free, No Upload
- Transcribe Turkish Audio to Text — Free, No Upload
- Transcribe Swedish Audio to Text — Free, No Upload
- Transcribe Danish Audio to Text — Free, No Upload
- Transcribe Norwegian Audio to Text — Free, No Upload
- Transcribe Finnish Audio to Text — Free, No Upload
- Transcribe Romanian Audio to Text — Free, No Upload
- Transcribe Greek Audio to Text — Free, No Upload
- Transcribe Hebrew Audio to Text — Free, No Upload
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Frequently asked questions
- Which languages can it translate FROM?
- About 100 — including Portuguese, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, Hindi and Russian. Pick the spoken language in the selector for best results.
- Can it translate INTO languages other than English?
- Not yet. English is the only target Whisper supports natively. For other targets, transcribe in the original language here, then run the text through a translator.
- Do I get subtitles too?
- Yes — the .SRT and .VTT buttons export the English translation with timestamps, ready for YouTube or your editor.
Guides
- How transcription in your browser works, and why nothing is uploaded A plain explanation of how a web page can turn speech into text without sending your recording anywhere: the Whisper model, the one-time download, what the Fast, Accurate and Best settings change, and what to expect on a phone.
- SRT vs VTT: which subtitle file to use, and how to add it to your video The two subtitle formats that matter, what is actually inside them, where each one works (YouTube, VLC, Premiere, CapCut, web players), the difference between a subtitle file and burned-in captions, and how to generate and fix one.
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🔒 Private mode (the default): your recording never leaves your device. Instant mode is optional, you switch it on yourself, and it sends the audio to the browser's speech service.