YouTube Video Translator

READS TEXT ALOUD, NOT ONLY VIDEO: Select any text on a page, right-click and AnyDub will read it aloud — translating as it goes if you want. Or let it read the whole article: it finds the text itself and skips menus, adverts and link lists.

The paragraph being read lights up, so it is easy to follow along or pick up where you stopped. The reading window can be moved and resized, the speed is adjustable, and both the text and the audio can be saved — TXT for the text, MP3 for the voice.

Useful for long reads, documentation, news in a foreign language, or simply when you would rather listen than read.

NATURAL VOICES: Besides the system voices there are neural voices — they sound like a person, not a robot. Every language has male and female options, and for widely spoken languages the choice is much broader. Speech rate is adjustable: listen faster if you are used to speeding videos up.

SUBTITLES, NOT JUST DUBBING: Prefer to read? Turn on subtitles — original and translation at the same time, one under the other. Handy for language learners: you hear the original and check yourself against the translation. The look is adjustable: size, colour, background opacity, position on screen. Subtitles can be downloaded as a file.

HOW IT WORKS: 1. Install the extension 2. Open a video — on YouTube, Twitch, TikTok or any other site 3. Click the AnyDub button over the player 4. Choose the language to translate into 5. Press «Dub» — the translation plays in sync with the video

If the video has subtitles, AnyDub will use them. If not, turn on Live mode and the extension will recognise the speech by itself.

PERFECT FOR:

• Lectures and courses: Coursera, Udemy, conferences, webinars
• Korean dramas, Japanese anime, Spanish and Turkish series
• Twitch streams and live broadcasts in any language
• News and reports from other countries
• Game breakdowns, gadget reviews, tutorials
• Podcasts and interviews that were never translated
• Learning languages: hear the original and read the translation at the same time

WHERE IT WORKS:

• YouTube — regular videos, Shorts, live broadcasts
• Twitch — streams and VODs
• TikTok
• Vimeo
• Ordinary websites with video and audio

PLANS: Video translation and dubbing are free with no account. The free plan also includes 60 minutes of Live translation a day, 10 minutes of the neural AI voice and 3 000 characters of text reading. Pro lifts the Live limit and unlocks subtitle styling, downloads and automatic speech-rate matching. Pro Max removes the reading limit entirely and raises the AI voice to three hours a day. A one-off Lifetime purchase gives the same as Pro Max, for good.

WHY THE PERMISSIONS ARE NEEDED:

• «tabs» — to notice when you move to a new video and clear the old subtitles
• «webRequest» — to obtain YouTube subtitles for translation
• «tabCapture» — to hear the tab's audio in Live mode
• «unlimitedStorage» — to store the speech recognition model once instead of downloading it again

PRIVACY:

• Speech recognition in Live mode runs on your computer, the audio is not transmitted anywhere
• Text for translation and speech is sent only to translation and speech synthesis services
• Video content is never stored
• No personal data is collected
• Settings are kept locally in your browser
• An account is only needed for a Pro subscription — the free version works without one

Watch the whole world. In your language.