Translate a video into the languages you need

How video translation works

Video translation starts the same way transcription always does: drop a file, and Hushscript transcribes and speaker-labels it. The difference is one choice you make before you hit start: pick one or more target languages, and the job comes back with a translated transcript alongside the original, timed to the same lines and the same speakers. There’s no separate translation pass to queue later and no second upload: translation runs inside the same job as transcription, billed as a surcharge on top of it. If your file is a video, the audio is pulled out in your browser first, so the video itself never uploads; only the extracted audio does, and only until your transcript is saved. If your recording uses names, brands, or field-specific terms, attach a saved dictionary before you start; it applies to the original transcript and carries the same spelling into every translated language.

Languages you can translate into

Choose from 13 target languages when you start a transcription: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Hindi, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Thai, Turkish, and Vietnamese. Pick one language or several, and each target gets its own translated transcript, generated in the same job as the original.

This list is deliberately smaller than, and separate from, the roughly 99 spoken languages Hushscript can transcribe automatically. The source language is whatever’s actually spoken in your recording, detected on its own; translation targets are the languages you choose to receive the transcript in. A French interview can be translated into Japanese, a German webinar into Spanish and Hindi at once: any source, any combination of the 13 targets. The same 13 languages also work as a manual source-language setting, if you’d rather set what’s spoken yourself instead of relying on auto-detect.

Translated subtitles for global audiences

Need captions in a language your audience actually speaks, not just the one spoken in the recording? Every translated transcript exports the same caption formats as the original: SRT, VTT, ASS, TTML, SBV, LRC, plus FCPXML and EDL for timeline markers in Final Cut, Premiere, and Resolve. Timing and speaker labels carry over from the original, so a translated SRT drops onto the video the same way the source-language one would.

Translated transcripts are encrypted at rest, exactly like the original; storing a translation doesn’t loosen how it’s protected. And because translation happens inside the same job as transcription, there’s no second upload and no separate subtitle tool to learn: pick your target languages once, and both the transcript and its subtitles come back translated. Subtitle settings such as line length and re-segmentation apply per language, so a translated caption file reads as naturally as one exported straight from the original.

What it costs

Translation is billed as a surcharge on top of base transcription: roughly a quarter of the transcript’s length per target language, rounded up. A 60-minute video translated into 2 languages bills 60 base minutes plus 30 surcharge minutes (a quarter of 60, twice), for 90 minutes total from your balance. The same math holds at any length: a 12-minute clip translated into one language adds 3 surcharge minutes; into three languages, 9.

There’s no monthly plan and no per-language subscription: you pay for the languages you actually pick, once, as part of the same job. If you edit the transcript afterward and a translation goes stale, re-translating costs the same quarter-of-length rate, and you’re never charged again for a translation you haven’t touched.

New accounts get 30 free minutes unlocked by card verification (temporary $1 hold, released immediately, never charged), then pay as you go against whichever pack you buy.