Translate a video to English, free, as subtitles
Drop the video and Burncaps writes out what is said, in the language spoken. Under Captions in, choose English: every line is translated by our AI and laid over the moments it was said. Export an MP4 with the English captions burned in, or download SRT, VTT or ASS subtitles. It makes subtitles, not a dubbed voice. Translating is free and needs no account, and subtitle files are free without limit for videos up to ten minutes.
The video never leaves your browser. On a computer, the sound is heard on your own device unless you choose our speech service; on a phone, it goes to our speech service unless you keep it on the phone. The service gets short pieces of sound, never the picture.
- Video never uploaded
- Free, no sign-up
- No watermark
- Burned in, SRT or VTT
Live preview of English captions, rendered on this page by the same engine that burns your video.
How to translate a video into English
1. The speech is written out
Drop the video. Burncaps listens first and names the language it hears above your script, with a one-click change, then writes every word in that language. It hears 59 languages, the list in Listening settings.
2. Every line goes into English
Under Captions in, choose English. Each line is translated by our AI and laid over the moments it was said. Correct a word in the script and only its line is translated again. Translating is free and needs no account.
3. Burn it in, or take the file
Export an MP4 with the English captions burned in, in any of 60 animated styles, or press SRT, VTT or ASS for a subtitle file whose name ends in -en. After an export, one click makes the same video with captions as spoken too.
What leaves your device for a translation
Only the lines of text: each word numbered and a mark after the words where the speaker paused, with no times, sent to our server and passed to Anthropic's Claude, which processes API data under its commercial terms and does not train on it. We do not store the transcript. The video stays in your browser. On a computer, English is heard on your own device unless you choose our speech service, which is also offered for other languages and for recordings over ten minutes; on a phone the sound goes to our speech service unless you keep it on the phone. The service gets short pieces of sound, never the picture, and passes them to Microsoft's speech recognition in the EU, which by Microsoft's terms for the service stores none of it. Ticking Keep everything on this device stops the translation, and the captions then stay as spoken. Transcribe a video without uploading it shows how to check every request yourself.
How good is the English? A count, not a promise
On 29 September 2026 we ran 44 public recordings in six languages (Google FLEURS) through the same speech service and translator you use, and set each English result beside a human English sentence. The meaning was kept in 42 of 44:
| Spoken language | Recordings | Meaning kept in English | The page for it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hindi | 6 | 6 of 6 | English subtitles for a Hindi video |
| Spanish | 6 | 6 of 6 | English subtitles for a Spanish video |
| Portuguese | 6 | 6 of 6 | English subtitles for a Portuguese video |
| Arabic | 6 | 5 of 6 | English subtitles for an Arabic video |
| Malayalam | 14 | 13 of 14 | English subtitles for a Malayalam video |
| Tamil | 6 | 6 of 6 | English subtitles for a Tamil video |
Read the English before you post
That is a small sample and we quote it as a count, not a percentage; the two misses were details, not the gist. Translation is done by an AI model, so names, jokes and long compound words can go wrong: read the English once before you publish. Each language page above says how well the speech service wrote that language before any translation. Translation into English was measured only for these six languages, so we give no figure for the others.
What it does, and what it does not
| Ask | Burncaps |
|---|---|
| Which way does it translate? | From the language spoken into English, or into another language from the same list |
| Burned into the video? | Yes: a new MP4 with the English captions in the picture, for a video up to ten minutes |
| Subtitle files? | SRT, VTT and ASS carry the English, free without limit for videos up to ten minutes; the Text file stays in the language spoken |
| Longer recordings? | Translation works on recordings up to ten minutes, and on each clip cut from a longer one; the whole script of a longer recording stays in the language spoken |
| A dubbed English voice? | No: the speaker's own voice stays; Burncaps makes subtitles |
| Both languages? | After an export the page offers the same video with the other captions, and each file is named with its language |
| Your own touches? | Bigger and coloured words, new lines and word timing show on the captions as spoken; translated captions draw every word alike |
| What it costs | Translating is free. Free: 2 videos every 30 days, each with captions and up to 3 clips, no watermark, no sign-up. Then try Captions + Clips free for 7 days, no card. Captions + Clips is $29 a month for unlimited clips and captions; Captions is $9.98 a month or $49 once. |
Translate audio to English
An audio file, a recorded talk, lesson or interview, works the same way: under Captions in, choose English, and its SRT, VTT and ASS files carry the English lines with their times, while its Text file stays in the language spoken. Burncaps works on recordings, not on speech as it is said. Transcribe audio to text covers audio files and their formats.
A long talk? Get English clips from it
Choose Clips, and Burncaps finds the best moments of a talk, podcast or interview and cuts each into a ranked, captioned 9:16 clip; each free video exports up to 3 of them, and Captions + Clips exports every clip, unlimited. Each clip is translated like a short video, so its captions can be in English too, even when the recording is hours long.
Questions, answered plainly
How do I translate a video to English for free?
Drop the video on this page. Burncaps writes out what is said in the language spoken, then under Captions in choose English: every line is translated and laid over the moments it was said. Export an MP4 with the English burned in, or press SRT, VTT or ASS for a subtitle file. Translating is free and needs no account.
Which languages can it translate into English?
Any of the 59 in Listening settings, the languages it can hear. It listens first and names the language it hears above your script, with a one-click change. The same Captions in control also translates into another language from that list.
Is the translation free?
Yes. Translating needs no account, and each connection has a generous daily limit against abuse. Exporting is free for 2 videos every 30 days, each with captions and up to 3 clips, no watermark and no sign-up. Then try Captions + Clips free for 7 days, no card. Captions + Clips is $29 a month for unlimited clips and captions; Captions is $9.98 a month or $49 once.
Can I get an English SRT file?
Yes. Choose English under Captions in, then press SRT, VTT or ASS: every line is the English, timed to the voice, and the file name ends in -en. Subtitle files are free without limit for videos up to ten minutes. The Text file stays in the language spoken.
Does it dub the video into English?
No. Burncaps makes English subtitles: the speaker's own voice stays as it was recorded, and the English is burned into the picture or saved as a subtitle file.
What leaves my device for a translation?
Only the lines of text: each word numbered and a mark after the words where the speaker paused, with no times, sent to our server and passed to Anthropic's Claude, which processes API data under its commercial terms and does not train on it. We do not store the transcript. The video never leaves your browser, and ticking Keep everything on this device stops the translation.
How long can the video be?
Translation works on recordings up to ten minutes, and on each clip cut from a longer one; the whole script of a longer recording stays in the language spoken. Captions burned into the whole video work up to ten minutes too.
How accurate is the English?
On 29 September 2026 we ran 44 public recordings in six languages (Google FLEURS) through the same speech service and translator you use, and set each English result beside a human English sentence: the meaning was kept in 42 of 44. That is a small sample and we quote it as a count, not a percentage. Translation is done by an AI model, so names, jokes and long compound words can go wrong: read the English once before you publish.
English subtitles, language by language
Hindi to English · Spanish to English · Portuguese to English · Arabic to English · Malayalam to English · Tamil to English
Burncaps facts, checked 3 November 2026
What it is: a browser tool that burns animated word-by-word captions into a talking video, or finds the best moments of a talk, podcast or interview and gives them back as ranked, captioned 9:16 clips.
Price: free for 2 videos every 30 days, each one recording with its captioned video and up to 3 clips, no mark and no sign-up; then the free 7-day Captions + Clips trial, no card (your email only); then Captions + Clips, $29 a month, gives unlimited clips and captioned videos, or Captions, $9.98 a month or $49 once, gives unlimited captioned videos. Captions paid once is not a subscription. Translations are free.
Privacy: the video never leaves your browser. The sound goes only to our speech service, on a phone unless you switch it off, on a computer only if you choose it. Because the video never reaches us, we cannot keep it or train AI on it, and we train no AI on anything you make.
Files: MP4 or MOV in, MP4 out. Captions on the whole video: up to ten minutes. Clips: up to three hours, on a phone or a computer. SRT, VTT, ASS and text files are free without limit for recordings up to ten minutes; a longer recording, up to three hours, gives its script and those files (the first ten minutes free, all of it as one of your free videos, in the trial or with Captions + Clips or Captions) and its clips (every one found and shown before you sign up; up to 3 from each free video exported free, every one in the trial or with Captions + Clips).
Clips: about one clip for every two minutes of talk, up to 30, ranked, the ones we would post first circled, each showing the words it opens and ends on and the reason it was chosen; each cut to 9:16 with ums and dead air removed, an opening card and captions, framed on whoever is talking. Every clip of the whole recording is found and shown, free and with no sign-up; each free video exports up to 3 of them, and the 7-day trial and Captions + Clips export every clip, unlimited.
Languages and styles: captions in the language spoken, twelve Indian languages heard on your device, translation into 59 languages, 60 caption styles.
After it listens: correct any word (one click changes it everywhere), add or cut words, one to six words at a time, position, size, text and highlight colours, and names this browser remembers, all free and without listening again.
Made by: Jordan Labs Ltd, UK company no. 17358646.
Against other tools: sixteen caption tools compared, from the vendors' own pages.