Translate subtitles
Open subtitles (SRT, VTT or a video's captions from a link), pick the language, and get translated subtitles with exactly the same timing, or bilingual ones with both languages on screen. Translation runs on your computer with Chrome's built-in translator, so there is no upload and no word limit.
Runs on your device. The speech model (OpenAI Whisper) downloads once, then works offline.
Transcript only. Add the video file to preview captions and export clips. It stays on your device.
Caption style and frame
Safe areas are approximate.
Clip none
Click the first line, Shift-click (or long-press) the last.
Exports at the frame and caption style above. No watermark.
Batch delivery 0 Pro
Many captioned clips, SRTs and a manifest in one zip. Open to everyone during early access.
Client style presets
Check and fix 0
Shift timing
Two-point sync
For drift: when should an early and a late line appear?
YouTube chapters –
Breaks at pauses; rewrite the titles, then copy.
Summary –
Translate subtitles –
Runs on your device with Chrome's built-in translator.
Download
Project = transcript, edits and settings, to pick up later.
How to use it
- Open the subtitlesSRT or VTT, a transcript with timestamps, or a video's captions from a link.
- Choose the languagesFrom is detected automatically when Chrome can; To is any of about 40 languages.
- Pick how it showsTranslation only, or bilingual with the original above or below.
- Translate and downloadThe first time a language pair is used, Chrome downloads it once; then SRT, VTT, or use it in the editor to burn it in.
What you can download here
- Translated SRT / VTTsame timing as the original, wrapped to two lines
- Bilingual subtitlesoriginal and translation on screen together, for language learners and mixed audiences
- Burned-in translated captionsUse in the editor, then add the video and export a captioned clip
Good to know
Translations are usually longer than the original, so a few lines may read too fast. After "Use in the editor", Check and fix shows the lines over your reading-speed limit and can lengthen them.
Translation happens in your browser: the subtitles never leave your computer, which matters for unreleased client work.
Cuescribe for Chrome
A transcript side panel on every YouTube and TikTok video, a library of everything you transcribe, and one click to open any of it in these tools.
Get the extensionPro keeps this free
Every tool stays free. Pro (early access, $9/month) adds batch delivery for client work and the extension's Pro features; longer files and multi-file projects are in development. Early subscribers keep their price and choose what gets built next.
What Pro includesNext steps
Questions
Which browsers can translate?
Desktop Chrome 138 or newer has the built-in translator this page uses. Edge, Firefox, Safari and phones don't yet: there, translate the text with any tool and pour it into the timing with Script to subtitles.
How good is the translation?
Chrome uses a compact translation model that runs on your computer: good for understanding and for drafts, weaker than a human translator on idioms, names and jokes. Read it through before you publish.
Can I translate a YouTube video's subtitles?
Yes: paste the link, the captions load, then translate them here. To show them on YouTube, upload the translated SRT in YouTube Studio as a new language.
Can I make bilingual subtitles?
Yes: choose "Original, then translation" or "Translation, then original". Each language gets up to two lines.