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Once your subtitles are generated, Capto can translate them into 60+ languages with a single click — using GPT-4o-mini to produce natural-sounding, context-aware translations rather than word-for-word substitution. Choose from four tone presets so the translated subtitles match the register of your original content. Every translated segment retains its original timestamps, so nothing slips out of sync. Translations are cached: re-export the same language as many times as you like at no extra cost. Translation costs 0.2 credits per minute of video, per target language.
All languages below are available as output targets. The source transcript can be in any language Whisper detects — translation always works from your existing Capto transcript.
European
Asian & Pacific
Middle Eastern
Latin American
Additional languages including Afrikaans, Azerbaijani, Bosnian, Estonian, Galician, Icelandic, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Serbian, Slovenian, Swahili, Welsh, and more are available in the workspace.
The tone preset tells GPT-4o-mini what register to target. The same source sentence can translate very differently depending on which you choose — and you can re-translate free at any time.
Clear and unambiguous — works in almost every context
The default. GPT-4o-mini translates as directly as possible while maintaining natural sentence structure in the target language. Idioms are preserved where they carry over cleanly; where they don't, a plain equivalent is used. Good for news, explainer videos, product walkthroughs, and anything where clarity matters more than voice.
Conversational and friendly — for creators and social content
Loosens contractions, uses everyday vocabulary, and mirrors informal speech patterns in the target language. A phrase like "you should consider" becomes "you'd want to." Slang is handled carefully — Capto avoids direct slang translation (which often misfires) in favour of the natural informal register of the target language.
Polished and precise — for business and corporate content
Industry terminology is preserved, passive constructions are used where appropriate in the target language, and filler phrases are trimmed. The result reads like a human-written business document rather than a transcription. Particularly useful for technical fields where terminology consistency matters across the whole subtitle file.
Elevated register — for academic and official contexts
The strictest register. Sentence structures follow formal written conventions of the target language, honorifics are applied where culturally expected (especially in Japanese and Korean), and colloquialisms in the source are replaced with their formal equivalents. The right choice for academic lectures, legal content, and documentary narration.
Anyone whose audience speaks a different language than their speaker — but these three groups use it most.
YouTube's recommendation algorithm surfaces videos to non-English speakers when a subtitle track exists in their language. Translating a 10-minute video into Spanish, French, and Portuguese costs 6 credits — under $0.25 — and opens the video to an audience several times the size of English alone. Capto runs all three translations in parallel, adding under a minute to your publishing workflow.
Course creators on Teachable, Thinkific, and Udemy sell to students worldwide, many of whom learn in their native language. Capto translates a 60-minute module into three languages for 36 credits. The SRT files upload directly to most LMS platforms without reformatting, and re-exporting any language after edits is always free — so revisions don't cost extra credits.
Spanish is the second-most-spoken language in the world; combined Spanish and Portuguese-speaking audiences outnumber English speakers on most social platforms. Translate episode transcripts into Spanish or French, then export burned-in MP4 clips for Instagram and TikTok — new listeners, same episode, no re-recording required.
Translation in Capto works from the saved transcript, not the video file. This means you can translate a video you uploaded weeks ago without re-uploading anything. Each subtitle segment is sent to GPT-4o-mini with its surrounding context — not in isolation — so the model maintains consistent terminology, handles pronouns correctly, and avoids the choppy output that word-by-word translation produces. Timestamps are preserved exactly, so translated subtitles stay in sync with no manual adjustment.
Standard machine translation tools translate segments in isolation. A subtitle file is a sequence of short lines stripped of context — pronouns lose their referents, idiomatic phrases break down, and terminology shifts inconsistently from one segment to the next.
Capto sends segments to GPT-4o-mini in batches with surrounding context included in the prompt. The model can see what came before and after each segment, which produces consistent pronoun handling, stable technical terminology, and natural sentence flow across cuts. For most spoken content — explainers, lectures, interviews, vlogs — the output reads as something a bilingual person would write.
Where the quality difference is most noticeable: idiomatic phrases, sentence reordering (especially German and Japanese), register-appropriate honorifics (Japanese, Korean), and RTL punctuation (Arabic, Hebrew). These are all areas where isolated translation consistently fails and context-aware translation consistently succeeds.
Translation is available on all plans. Plan limits govern the source video — file size, maximum duration, and how many export jobs run simultaneously. Translation itself costs 0.2 credits per minute per language, regardless of plan. Credits never expire.
| Plan | Max file size | Max video length | Concurrent exports |
|---|---|---|---|
| Essential | 100 MB | 15 min | 1 |
| Creator | 500 MB | 60 min | 2 |
| Pro | 500 MB | 120 min | 3 |
| Growth | 2 GB | 4 hr | 5 |
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Capto uses GPT-4o-mini, which handles subtitle translation significantly better than statistical machine translation because it understands sentence context rather than translating word-by-word. For standard spoken language — presentations, vlogs, lectures, interviews — the output is accurate and natural-sounding in the target language. Accuracy is lower for heavy technical jargon, brand-specific terminology, or very colloquial regional speech. Every translated segment is editable in the Capto workspace before downloading.
Yes. Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, and Urdu are fully supported with correct right-to-left (RTL) text direction in exported SRT and VTT files. When burned-in MP4 export is used with an Arabic subtitle track, the ASS subtitle renderer handles RTL rendering automatically. YouTube, VLC, and most subtitle-aware video players render RTL subtitle files without any additional configuration.
Translation costs 0.2 credits per minute of video per target language. A 10-minute video translated into Spanish costs 2 credits. The same video into Spanish, French, and German simultaneously costs 6 credits. Re-exporting a previously translated language is always free — the translation is cached in your workspace. Credits are purchased once and never expire, so there is no subscription or recurring charge for translation.
Yes — Capto lets you select up to 3 target languages per translation job and runs them in parallel. If you need more than 3 languages, you can run additional translation jobs at any time from the same workspace without re-uploading the video. Each translation is cached, so re-exporting any language later is always free.
Neutral uses direct translation with natural sentence structure — good for tutorials, product demos, and news. Casual loosens contractions and uses everyday vocabulary to mirror informal speech, best for YouTube vlogs and TikTok clips. Professional preserves industry terminology and trims filler phrases, suitable for SaaS demos and corporate training. Formal applies elevated register, honorifics where culturally expected (especially Japanese and Korean), and strict formal written conventions — right for academic lectures, legal explainers, and documentaries. You can re-translate with any tone at no extra cost once a language has already been translated.
Once translation is complete, open the Translate tab in your Capto workspace and select the target language. Download SRT, VTT, TXT, or DOCX individually — or click Export ZIP to grab all formats across all translated languages in one archive. SRT is the right choice for YouTube and most video platforms. VTT works for HTML5 web players and LMS platforms like Teachable and Thinkific. DOCX exports the translated text as a formatted Word document for show notes or blog posts. Translated burned-in MP4s — with captions permanently embedded in the video frame — are available through the Export tab.
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