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Answers to the questions you hit when watching foreign-language video: how to translate on each site, how to watch videos in a given language, and how to choose subtitle files and tools.
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Export SRT/VTT subtitle filesExport generated subtitles as SRT or VTT files: choose original, translated or bilingual text, check coverage and cost, then download.
How do I translate a full video in advance?Prepare subtitles for a whole video before you reach each part: open Translate all subtitles in advance in the WatchTranslate panel, check the estimate and start. Works on YouTube, X, Bilibili and in the local player.
How do I translate Bilibili videos to English subtitles?Bilibili has no translate button for what people say in a video. Add WatchTranslate, click WT on the Bilibili player and choose English: it reads the video's subtitles or listens to the Chinese audio, sentence by sentence.
How do I translate embedded subtitles?Your video has a built-in subtitle track in the wrong language? In the WatchTranslate local player set Subtitle source to Embedded subtitles and translate that track directly: no ripping, no re-muxing, 0.2 credits a minute.
What are bilingual subtitles, and why use them?Bilingual subtitles show the original line and its translation together, stacked on the picture. WatchTranslate adds them to YouTube, X, Bilibili and local files, even when the video has no subtitles to start with.
How do I add subtitles to a video?Adding subtitles is two jobs: attach an SRT you already have, or create one from the speech first. The WatchTranslate local player loads subtitle files and generates and translates subtitles as the video plays.
How do I generate subtitles automatically?Automatic subtitles turn a video's speech into timed lines without typing. WatchTranslate does it on YouTube, X and Bilibili with the extension, and for files on your computer in the local player, then translates them.
How do I add subtitles to a video on my phone?Videos on your phone have no subtitles? Install the WatchTranslate app on Android or iPhone; on Android you can also open the local player in the phone browser, pick the video and press Start translation.
How do I translate a Twitter video into English?X's translate button covers the text of a post, not what people say in the video. On a computer, add WatchTranslate and click its button on the X player: it translates the creator's captions, or listens to the audio when there are none.
How do I watch a foreign movie with no subtitles?No subtitle track and no SRT that matches your copy? Open the film in the WatchTranslate local player: subtitles are generated from the film's own audio and translated as it plays, and the file stays on your computer.
Immersive Translate or WatchTranslate for videos?Immersive Translate is a page and document translator that also does video; its AI subtitles for videos without captions need Pro. WatchTranslate is built only for video: it writes subtitles from the audio, plays local files and runs on phones.
The YouTube video has no subtitles. How do I get some?A greyed-out CC button means the YouTube video has no caption track, so there is nothing for YouTube to translate. WatchTranslate listens to the audio on YouTube's own player and writes English subtitles as it plays.