Translate SRT/VTT/ASS subtitles with ChatGPT online 🎞️

How to translate .SRT subtitle files online

Using an online service is the easiest way to translate SRT/VTT/ASS subtitles.
Just pick a file from your computer, select the target languages and click submit.
You'll see the progress bar and the result file will be downloaded immediately when it's ready.

Automated translation has a number of advantages:

• you can batch translate a file into multiple languages at once
• no registration necessary
• costs less than 1/10 of manual translation price
• fully automated translation
• get high quality, natural sounding translations using state-of-the-art ChatGPT models

ChatGPT is known for its capabilities to provide meaningful translations, preserving the style and tone of original texts, into multiple languages. The main challenge is that it often fails to keep a line-to-line match. This breaks the structure of subtitle files and makes it impossible to use it as an accurate translator for .SRT files.

Another obstacle is that it can only translate a limited amount of text at once. Bigger files, like movie subtitles, can be up to 200-400 kilobytes and need to be split into chunks and processed one-by-one. At the same time, the translation should still have the same context and style.

This .SRT file translator is designed specifically to leverage AI power to provide accurate subtitle translations and solve both problems.

Use AI to translate subtitle files for YouTube or VLC preserving structure and markup

If you tried to copy the subtitles into ChatGPT UI and simply ask it to translate them to other language, you would notice it breaks the markup and the result does not match the source line-by-line. The translation result is useless, because the lines won't match the timing and the markup is lost. On top of that, you'll need to split the file into chunks and feed them one by one, which is a tedious process.

With TranslateSRT, you can just pick a SRT/VTT/ASS file, select the languages you need, and in a minute you get the result with accurate meaning, original markup and correct file formatting. You get this for a fraction of a price of human translation, and the result is guaranteed to comply with the SRT/VTT/ASS format definition.

Is ChatGPT better for subtitles than Google Translate?

If you ever tried Google Translate or another online subtitle translation tool, you know thet can break the markup, change time codes and line breaks. On top of that, they treat every line as a separate entity, which leads to mistranslations.

AI-powered translation tools, on the other hand, keep the whole context and meaning, so that the translated subtitles are accurate. Sentences meanings are preserved, and the formatting is kept intact, character names are consistent and the overall quality is much higher.

To make the quality even better, for each chunk of text to be translated, the AI model is fed with the previous and following lines, and the formatting is validated by an algorithm. This way, the translated subtitles are more accurate and can be used with confidence.

How much can I translate for free?

Free users of TranslateSRT have quota 10 KB per day. The limit is reset daily. If you need to translate bigger files, please top up your account.

Help & support

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