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title: "How to translate a video | ToolSugar"
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# Translate a video into another language with subtitles

Updated 2026-11-09

To translate a video, transcribe the speech, translate each line and show the result as subtitles. Video Translator does this in your browser and keeps the timing of every line. You download a translated SRT and the original SRT, or burn the translation into a new MP4. It translates captions and does not replace the voice.

[Open Video Translator](https://toolsugar.com/tools/translate-video)

## Translate a video in three steps

You need one video and a target language. Nothing to install.

1. Drop your video and choose the language to translate into.
2. Wait while the speech is heard and translated in your browser.
3. Download the translated SRT, or burn the translated captions into a new video on your device.

## What leaves your device

Nothing. Speech recognition and translation both run in your browser, so neither the audio nor the subtitle text is uploaded.

The first run downloads a speech model of about 77 MB, or 206 MB with WebGPU, and a translation model of about 632 MB. Your browser keeps both. It cannot translate Telugu. Spanish, Hindi, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Chinese, Korean and Arabic are mostly usable with some slips, and Arabic and Korean are the weakest. Read the result before you publish it.

## How the timing is kept

Each translated line takes the start and end time of the line it came from. That keeps the words in step with the speaker even when a sentence is longer in the new language.

Long lines can run past the moment the next one appears, so read the result once before you publish it. You also get the original-language SRT, which makes a side by side check easy.

## Subtitles or a new voice

The original voices stay in the video. If you want the spoken track replaced with a voice in the new language, that is a different job, and AI Dubbing is built for it.

Subtitles suit a product video for viewers abroad, a talk in a language you do not speak, or an extra language track on YouTube.

## Questions

### Do I get the original-language subtitles too?

Yes. You can download the original SRT next to the translated one.

### What if the translation step fails halfway?

Try again. The transcript is reused, so the file is not heard twice and only the translation runs again.

### Why does it stop with a limit message?

Video Translator shares 5 free AI runs with the other AI tools in any rolling 24 hours. The count uses a hash of browser traits and a hash of your IP, and needs no sign up. A failed run is refunded.

[Open Video Translator](https://toolsugar.com/tools/translate-video)

## Related guides

- [How to add subtitles to a video](https://toolsugar.com/blog/how-to-add-subtitles-to-a-video)
- [How to dub a video with AI](https://toolsugar.com/blog/how-to-dub-a-video-with-ai)
- [How to transcribe audio to text](https://toolsugar.com/blog/how-to-transcribe-audio-to-text)
- [How to trim a video without re-encoding](https://toolsugar.com/blog/how-to-trim-a-video)

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