English to Chinese video translator

Less than English, by about a fifth. Chinese says the same in about a third of the characters, so even with lines of 16 characters, read at 9 a second, many subtitles need one line: seven of our ten test sentences did.

The Chinese is cut into subtitles after it’s translated, so the number of Chinese subtitles needn’t match the English ones; each still sits inside the time its English sentence was spoken.

Latin names and long numbers, which count letter by letter. In our check, “Dr. Patel and Maria Lopez will lead the session” was cut so “Dr.” sat alone on a line and “Lopez” started the next subtitle. Join split names by hand in the SRT.

Simplified characters, the form read in mainland China and Singapore. On YouTube, upload them as Chinese (Simplified). For viewers in Taiwan or Hong Kong, who read traditional characters, convert the SRT first and check words that differ by region.

Viewers are spoken to with 你, the everyday “you”, which suits most channels. In our test of 50 sentences, translation into Chinese scored clearly above the dedicated translation system we compared it with.

NoteOwl understands Chinese and English on your Mac. Import an MP4 and it transcribes it with unlimited transcription and saves SRT subtitles naming each speaker. If English subtitles exist already, the subtitle translator keeps their timing to the millisecond.