SnipFree Audio Translator
Translate audio from 99 languages into English — or into Spanish, French, German, Mandarin and 7 more — right in your browser. Drop in a Spanish podcast, a Mandarin interview, a French lecture — get editable text with timestamps. Download as .txt, .srt, or .vtt. Files never leave your device. No sign-up.
Drop an audio or video file
or click to browse. Any of 99 languages. Best with files under 30 min on most browsers. Cap at 60 min — split longer files first with our Audio Splitter.
Don't have a file? Record one with our voice recorder to test how translation works.
100% in your browser. Audio stays on your device. The Whisper AI model downloads once (~40 MB) from our servers, then runs locally for every translation. We can't access your audio because it never leaves your computer. Privacy policy.
Best with clear speech. Pick a Target language to translate into — leave it on English for the fastest result. Want text in the original language instead? Use the Audio Transcription tool. Keep this tab open — we'll chime if you switch tabs. Models cache after first download.
Translation
Translate audio to English — free, private, browser-based
SnipSound's Audio Translator uses OpenAI's open-source Whisper speech-translation model running entirely in your browser via WebAssembly. Upload a Spanish podcast, a Mandarin interview, a French lecture, an Arabic voice memo — Whisper renders it as English text with accurate timestamps. The first time you click Translate, your browser downloads a ~40 MB AI model from our servers; after that, every translation is local.
What it's great for
- English subtitles for foreign-language videos. Drop in a foreign-language clip you've downloaded, get a .srt with English subtitles you can upload to YouTube.
- English transcripts of foreign-language interviews for journalists, researchers, analysts.
- Understanding voice messages you received in a language you don't speak.
- Studying foreign-language audio for language learning — toggle between source-language and English views.
- Privacy-sensitive content — therapy notes, confidential interviews, internal meetings recorded in another language.
What it's not so good for
- Heavy background noise, music behind voice, multiple overlapping speakers.
- Low-resource languages — quality varies widely. Lao, Maori, Yiddish work but rougher than Spanish/Mandarin.
- Idiomatic / culture-specific phrasing — tiny model gives literal translations.
- Files longer than 60 minutes — capped to protect browser RAM.
- Languages outside the 11 supported targets — to-English works for 99 source languages, but translating into another language is limited to the 11 in the Target list (Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Mandarin, Japanese, Arabic, Hindi).
How it compares to Cockatoo, Otter, Rev
Cockatoo, Otter, Rev, Trint, Sonix all run larger Whisper variants on their servers. Quality is meaningfully higher — especially on heavy accents, multi-speaker audio, low-resource languages. They charge $10-30/month or $1/minute because GPU servers cost money. SnipSound's wedge: free, no sign-up, files never leave your device. Use this when privacy / cost matters more than maximum accuracy.
Need transcription instead?
Uncheck Translate to English for source-language transcription, or use the dedicated Audio Transcription tool.