Multiple Target Languages Subtitles Translation

This day marks the start of another, hopefully, handy feature to translate subtitles to multiple target languages quickly and easily. This has been requesting a lot, especially from YouTubers who want to increase their audience by providing subtitles in multiple languages for their videos.

While this was possible before using my Online Subtitles Translator too, the process itself was quite laborious – where the user has to upload a single file, but for each target language translation, do the steps like these:

1. Selected target language
2. Click the “Translate” button to begin translation.
3. Wait for it to finish (a few seconds to a minute or so depending on length).
4. Do any post-translation edits.
5. Save-As the file

And then repeat the above steps for each new target language. The new enhancements to the Subtitle Translation tool make it quite convenient to translate to multiple languages too. All you have to do is upload one or more subtitle files (.SRT, .SUB, .ASS and .VTT formats supported) by dragging these to the drop file area:

Once that’s done, select your target translator like Google, DeepL, Microsoft, etc – yes, it works with both free and paid translators. And select your target language. At this point, now you can add multiple translation languages by clicking the button, and selecting one or more target languages as shown below:

Tip: You can save your language selection by clicking the “Save” icon at the bottom of the list. This way, the next time you upload subtitle file(s), you can restore your last selection by clicking the icon next in the Translator bar.

Once you are happy with the language selection, just click the “Translate” button as you normally do for single-language translation, and wait for it to finish. Once the translation is done, you can review – and edit subtitles – if you like by selecting the translated language from the drown-down above the translation area as shown below:

And that’s mostly it! Once you are done with the review process, you can download all these translated files in a single ZIP file format by just clicking the “Save All” button:

Hope you find this a time-saving feature, and that it helps promote your videos. As always, I’m looking forward to your suggestions and feedback.

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