Chinese to English

Mandarin is one of the languages where getting the transcript right matters most before you translate: no word spacing, heavy homophony, and terms that only disambiguate from context. ScribeToAny transcribes the Chinese first, with punctuation, sentence breaks and speaker labels, and only then translates — so the English is built on a clean source rather than on a guess. Both documents keep the same cue times, so the subtitles stay usable.

Start transcribing freeFree plan: 2 files per day, 100 minutes per month. No credit card required.

How it works

  1. 1

    Upload

    Drop in an audio or video file, or paste a link. All common formats are accepted.

  2. 2

    Transcribe

    AI transcribes with timestamps and optional speaker labels, usually in minutes.

  3. 3

    Export

    Edit segments online, then export TXT, SRT, VTT, TSV, CSV, JSON, PDF or DOCX.

Why ScribeToAny

  • Upload MP3, MP4, M4A, MOV, AAC, WAV, OGG, OPUS, MPEG, WMA, WMV — audio is extracted from video automatically.
  • About 98 languages with automatic detection, powered by a Whisper-class engine on dedicated GPUs.
  • Eight export formats: TXT, SRT, VTT, TSV, CSV, JSON, PDF and DOCX — plus batch ZIP export.
  • Speaker recognition labels every segment. Click any sentence to replay the matching audio.

Frequently asked questions

Does it handle Simplified and Traditional Chinese?

Yes, and they are offered as separate targets when you translate, because a single "Chinese" option would silently pick one script for you. Transcription of spoken Mandarin works the same either way; the script only matters for the written output.

What about dialects and accented Mandarin?

Accented Mandarin is handled well; regional dialects that differ substantially from Mandarin are much weaker, as they are for every speech model. For difficult recordings, accurate mode plus the optional AI audio restoration is the combination that helps most, and every segment is editable afterwards.

Can I export a bilingual document?

The Chinese transcript and the English translation export separately, in any of the eight formats, with identical cue times. Select both in the advanced export and they come down as one ZIP — the usual way to hand a client the Word document and the subtitle files together.

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