Chinese to English · Read, don't just caption
Chinese video to English text.
For English readers following what is said in Chinese: founder interviews, podcasts, conference talks and product demos that never make it to English. ReadVideo transcribes the Mandarin, proofreads it, and lays it out as a reading document with paragraphs and headings. It then translates sentence by sentence and shows the English under the Chinese, each line tied to its moment in the video. Translation needs a Creator plan or above.
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A Chinese talk, read in English
The first minute of a public Chinese science talk, transcribed and then translated by ReadVideo on a Creator-plan account. The English under each sentence is exactly what Translate transcript produced; nothing was edited.
0:00大家好，屏幕上这个略显沧桑的年轻人就是我，马晓晨。Hello everyone, this slightly weathered young man on the screen is me, Ma Xiaochen.
0:05我是一个盐湖人，在海拔5千米以上的藏北无人区开展盐湖资源调查是我的工作。I am a salt lake person, and my job is to carry out salt lake resource surveys in the uninhabited area of northern Tibet at an altitude of over 5,000 meters.
0:12讲解盐湖知识是我的责任。It is my responsibility to explain salt lake knowledge.
0:15今天我带着盐湖人的期许来到这里，让我把盐湖讲给你听。Today I have come here carrying the expectations of salt lake people, so let me tell you about salt lakes.
0:20说起盐湖啊，大家是既熟悉又陌生。Speaking of salt lakes, everyone is both familiar with and unfamiliar with them.
0:24咱们一日三餐中必不可少的食盐，农业中的钾肥，新能源电池中的锂等资源，大多都来自盐湖。The indispensable table salt in our three daily meals, potash fertilizer in agriculture, and resources such as lithium in new energy batteries mostly come from salt lakes.
0:33尽管盐湖矿产资源丰富，但很长一段时间里，人们认为这些高盐度的湖泊中是不存在生命的。Although salt lakes are rich in mineral resources, for a long time people believed that no life existed in these highly saline lakes.
0:41但您觉得是这样吗？But do you think that is the case?
0:43其实啊，看似生命荒漠的盐湖里，生活着一种神奇的浮游动物，它似虾不是虾。Actually, in salt lakes that seem like deserts of life, there lives a miraculous kind of zooplankton—it looks like a shrimp but is not a shrimp.
0:51游泳时身姿如仙女般优雅，人称仙女虾。When it swims, its posture is as elegant as a fairy, so people call it the fairy shrimp.
0:56今天，我们一起来认识盐湖中的小仙女——卤虫。Today, let us get to know the little fairy in the salt lake—the brine shrimp.
1:02卤虫也称卤水虾或丰年虾，广泛分布于世界内陆盐湖和沿海盐场，在我国新疆、山西、青藏高原等地的盐湖中均有分布。Brine shrimp, also called brine shrimp or Artemia, are widely distributed in inland salt lakes and coastal saltworks around the world, and in China they are found in salt lakes in Xinjiang, Shanxi, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and other places.
Built for reading Chinese video, not just captioning it
Who uses it: English readers following China's AI and tech conversations, researchers and analysts who need to cite what a speaker actually said, and fans of Chinese creators who want more than auto-captions.
A Chinese transcript that fixes its own typos
After the Mandarin is transcribed, a proofreading pass corrects misrecognized characters, including same-sounding homophones. Signed in, your glossary of names and terms applies to every later transcript, and you can select a word in the reader to correct it.
A reading document, not a wall of subtitles
The transcript is grouped into paragraphs with headings, chapters let you jump through a long recording, and on Creator plans and above key sentences mark the lines worth quoting.
English beside the Chinese, with consistent names
Translate transcript puts an English sentence under each Chinese one. The translator keeps a per-video ledger of names and terms, which you can review, so the same person or term reads the same way from start to end. Creator plan and above.
Long recordings and big files
Signed in, one file can be up to 16 GB and 8 hours. Upload it or paste a Google Drive share link; for a very large video you can upload the audio track only.
Copy or export
Copy the whole transcript into your notes or an AI assistant, or export plain text or Markdown; timed SRT subtitles are on paid plans. Exports carry the Chinese transcript; the English is read in the bilingual view.
How to turn a Chinese video into English text
Upload the video or paste a Drive link
Choose the file above, or paste a Google Drive share link. Signed out, one upload up to 10 minutes is free.
Correct names and terms
The translation follows the transcript. Fix misheard names first; signed in, your correction glossary can apply the same fix across your transcripts.
Translate the transcript
Choose Translate transcript. A Chinese transcript is translated into English sentence by sentence, then each English phrase is aligned to the timeline.
Read and verify
Read the English under each Chinese sentence and click any phrase to hear the original. Verify passages you plan to quote.
Chinese-to-English questions
How do I read a Chinese interview or podcast in English?
Upload the recording or paste a Google Drive share link, let ReadVideo transcribe and proofread the Chinese, then choose Translate transcript. The English appears under each Chinese sentence in the reader, and clicking an English phrase plays the moment it came from. Translation needs a Creator plan or above and uses credits.
Does it fix Chinese transcription errors?
It catches many of them. After transcription, a proofreading pass corrects misrecognized characters, including same-sounding homophones. Names and specialist terms can still come out wrong: add them to your glossary so later transcripts use your spelling, or select a word in the reader to correct it. Fix names before translating, because the English follows the Chinese.
How long a video can it handle?
Signed in, one file can be up to 16 GB and 8 hours, and transcription uses credits. Long recordings get chapters so you can jump to a section. Signed out, the free trial covers one upload up to 10 minutes.
Is the translation bilingual, side by side?
Yes. The reader shows each Chinese sentence with its English translation directly beneath it, and every English phrase is tied to the video's timeline. It is machine translation, so check passages you plan to quote against the Chinese.
Does it dub the video into English?
No. You get English text: a translation of each sentence shown under the Chinese in the reader. There is no English voice track and no re-voiced video.
Can I export the translation?
Not as a file yet. Exports (SRT on paid plans, plain text, Markdown) contain the Chinese transcript; the English is read in the bilingual view.
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