Translate English to Chinese
Audio & video to text, then translated
To translate English to Chinese, upload or record your English audio or video with LiteScribe, get an accurate English transcript with speaker labels and timestamps, then translate the transcript into Chinese in one click. You keep both versions, and it works free on web, desktop, mobile, and the Chrome extension.
Transcribe and translate
Turn your English audio into clean Chinese text
Record or upload your English audio and get accurate Chinese text. AI transcription in 100+ languages, with summaries, speaker labels, timestamps, and one-click export.
Discussion covered Q4 marketing strategy with focus on social media expansion. Key decision: Launch new campaign by Feb 15th.
"Let's focus on the social media strategy for Q4..."
"I agree, we should allocate more budget there."
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Record in one language, read it in another
Capture a conversation in English and read it back in Chinese, with both versions side by side. The same flow works across 100+ languages, so your whole team can follow along in the language they prefer.
One account. Every device.
LiteScribe transcribes your English recordings into clean, speaker-labeled text and translates them into Chinese in one click. The Chinese translation is written in Simplified characters with correct word segmentation, so it reads naturally for teams in mainland China. You keep the English original next to the Chinese version, with 300 free minutes every month and no credit card required.
使用 LiteScribe，你可以转录英文录音，并一键翻译成中文。你可以同时保留英文原文和中文译文，方便与中国团队分享。免费开始，无需信用卡。
Why translate English to Chinese with LiteScribe
Simplified characters
The Chinese translation is written in Simplified characters with correct word segmentation, so it reads naturally for readers in mainland China.
Context resolves tense
Chinese does not inflect for tense or number, so the translation uses context and measure words to keep the English meaning clear.
Speaker labels carry over
Diarization on the English audio means the Chinese translation preserves who said what.
Free to start
300 minutes every month on the free plan covers most calls, demos, and short videos.
What makes English and Chinese distinct
English
English
- Family
- Germanic
- Script
- Latin (LTR)
- Speakers
- ~1.5 billion (first and second language)
- Where
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, India, and much of the world as a lingua franca
English transcription has to handle a wide spread of accents (American, British, Irish, Indian, Australian) and heavy use of contractions, filler words, and code-switching. Homophones such as "their", "there", and "they're" are resolved from context, and proper nouns and acronyms are a common source of errors that a quick edit pass fixes.
Chinese
中文
- Family
- Sino-Tibetan
- Script
- Han (Simplified) (LTR)
- Speakers
- ~1.1 billion (Mandarin, first and second language)
- Where
- Mainland China, Taiwan, Singapore, and Chinese-speaking communities worldwide
Mandarin Chinese is tonal, with four main tones plus a neutral tone that change a syllable's meaning entirely ("ma" can mean mother, hemp, horse, or scold), so tone matters for correct transcription. Written Chinese has no spaces between words and no inflection, so the transcript segments a continuous run of Han characters into meaningful units, and measure words plus context resolve number and tense that the characters do not mark.
A worked example
English (source)
Thanks for joining; let us walk through the quarterly numbers before we open it up for questions.
Chinese (translation)
感谢各位参加；在进入提问环节之前，我们先来看一下本季度的数据。
The English "quarterly numbers" becomes the Chinese phrase for this-quarter figures, and the casual "open it up for questions" becomes the natural phrase for entering the question session, with correct measure words.
Who uses English to Chinese
- 1
A company localizing English product, training, or all-hands recordings for a China-based team
- 2
English webinars and content subtitled in Chinese for the mainland market
- 3
English investor or partner calls summarized in Chinese for a China market team
How it works
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Add your English audio or video
Upload a English audio or video file, paste a YouTube, podcast, or meeting link, or record live with the desktop app or Chrome extension. MP3, WAV, M4A, MP4, and most common formats are supported.
- 2
Transcribe the English speech
LiteScribe returns a clean English transcript with speaker labels, timestamps, automatic punctuation, an AI summary, and topic tags. Select English or let automatic language detection identify it.
- 3
Translate the transcript to Chinese
Translate the finished English transcript into Chinese in one click. You keep both versions, so you can read the original English alongside the Chinese translation.
- 4
Edit, ask AI, and export
Tidy any names or terms, ask the built-in AI questions about the content in either language, then export to DOCX, PDF, TXT, or SRT subtitles for sharing.
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