One source SRT became six market-ready files with timing untouched. Our agency quoted two weeks for the same job.
English → Chinese · timing preserved: Translate Subtitles from English to Chinese
Chinese captions use far fewer characters than English but are read at a lower rate, and the script choice matters. Upload an SRT, VTT or video and keep the original cue timing.
SRT & VTT in and out · videos up to 8 GB · no credit card needed
Timing stays. Chinese comes in.
launch-video.srtENZH
100:00:01,200 --> 00:00:03,100
We rebuilt the studio in winter.我们冬天重新装修了录音室。
200:00:03,300 --> 00:00:06,000
And since then every episode sounds warmer.从那以后，每一期听起来都更温暖。
300:00:06,200 --> 00:00:07,900
People hear it right away.听众马上就能听出来。
Timecodes untouched
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What Changes When English Becomes Chinese
Three things worth knowing before you ship Chinese captions.
Simplified characters serve mainland China and Singapore; Traditional serves Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau. The two are not interchangeable, and the difference goes past character shapes into vocabulary. Publishing one to an audience that reads the other is the most visible mistake in Chinese localisation.
A line of English becomes noticeably fewer Chinese characters, which tempts translators to pack more in. Subtitle guidelines for Chinese assume a substantially lower characters-per-second rate than for Latin scripts, because each character carries more information and takes longer to process. Cues should be judged by reading time, not by how much space is left.
Chinese runs without word spaces, so a line can technically break anywhere — including inside a two-character compound, which forces the reader to backtrack. Breaks belong at clause boundaries, and punctuation uses full-width forms （，。！？） rather than their ASCII equivalents.
One English cue, translated into Chinese
Chinese uses a fraction of the characters and full-width punctuation.
- 00:00:03,100 → 00:00:05,900
English: Your subtitles will be ready in a few minutes.
Chinese: 几分钟后字幕就会准备好。
- 00:00:06,300 → 00:00:07,900
English: Wait, what did you just say?
Chinese: 等等，你刚才说什么？
The first line shrinks from 46 characters to 12, yet needs nearly the same time on screen. The second uses the full-width comma and question mark that Chinese text expects.
English → Chinese, Done Right
Short Chinese lines that keep the English timing.
Paced for character reading speed
Cues are filled to a comfortable reading rate rather than to the space available.
Full-width punctuation
Chinese punctuation is used properly instead of ASCII commas and periods.
Cues keep their English timing
Chinese lines inherit the start and end time of each English cue, so the subtitles stay in sync after translation.
Breaks and punctuation reviewed
Each Chinese line sits next to its English original, so a break inside a word or a half-width comma is easy to fix.
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Upload your English SRT or VTT file, or the video itself, and choose Chinese as the target language. BlaBlaScribe translates every line with AI and keeps the original timestamps, so the Chinese subtitles stay in sync with the speech. Fix the wording in the editor, then download SRT or VTT or export an MP4 with the subtitles burned in. Translation is available on paid plans from $14 a month.
Choose according to your audience: Simplified for mainland China and Singapore, Traditional for Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau. Lines can be reviewed and adjusted before export.
Each character carries more information and takes longer to read, so guidelines use a lower characters-per-second rate. Cues are phrased for that, not for maximum density.
Yes with UTF-8 export, provided the player font includes CJK glyphs. Current players and platforms handle this by default.
Streaming guidelines for Simplified Chinese allow about 16 characters per line. Because there are no spaces, lines are broken between words, never inside one.
Yes. Pick a caption style and export an MP4 with the Chinese subtitles burned in; it renders in your browser. Choose a style whose font includes Chinese characters and check the preview first.