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Translate Russian Audio to English

Turn Russian speech in a video, podcast or voice recording into an English transcript and English subtitles you can download.

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Russian recordings arrive as podcasts, interviews, tech talks, lectures and news commentary, and from Russian-speaking families and communities across the US.

Exemplary AI writes the Russian transcript, translates it in the Translations panel and exports the English as PDF, SRT, VTT, TXT, Markdown, JSON or DOCX.

Russian to English at a glance

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From
Russian (русский), detected or picked by name
To
English, or any of the 116 languages in the translation list
You get
English subtitles on the video, and PDF, SRT, VTT, TXT, Markdown, JSON or DOCX downloads
Voice
No dubbing or English voice-over
Long recordings
Over 30 minutes, it asks before translating
Free plan
500 one-time credits; files up to 500 MB and 30 min long; 720p video exports with a watermark
How it works

How to translate Russian audio to English

A Russian recording added, with its language detected

A line of Russian, and its English

From the scene above: a podcast interview
Всё началось с одной маленькой записи в блоге.

EN  It all started with one small blog post.

Names, patronymics and nicknames

Russians use a first name with a patronymic, as in Ivan Petrovich, for respect, and short forms such as Sasha for Aleksandr or Dima for Dmitry among friends. English readers may not know that Sasha and Aleksandr are the same person, so pick one form for your English text.

Cyrillic names have several Latin spellings (Yuri or Yury, Aleksandr or Alexander). Choose one per person and keep it the same across the subtitles and any article you write from the recording.

Word order, ты and вы, and figures

Russian word order is free because word endings carry the grammar, so emphasis can sit anywhere in a sentence. The informal ты and the formal вы both become "you" in English.

Russian groups thousands with a space and writes decimals with a comma, so 1 500,5 is one thousand five hundred and a half. In a tech talk or a news commentary, those figures are the lines to check in the English.

What it does

Russian In, English Out

The Russian transcript comes first, so you check it before it becomes English.

Both languages, line by line

Each English line sits under its Russian line, with the same timestamp.

English subtitles on the video

Show English as subtitles plays the translation over the recording before you download it.

Long episodes handled

Upload a full episode; past 30 minutes the panel asks once before translating, because the translation runs while you wait.

One spelling per name

Settle how each Russian name is spelled in English and keep it consistent across subtitles and show notes.

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Questions

Common questions

How do I translate Russian audio to English for free?
On the Free plan (500 one-time credits; files up to 500 MB and 30 min long; 720p video exports with a watermark): upload the Russian recording or paste its link, translate the transcript into English in the Translations panel, and download it.
Does it dub Russian audio into English?
No. You get English text: a transcript and subtitles for the Russian recording, with no synthetic voice.
Can I translate a Russian podcast episode?
Yes. Upload the audio, or paste a link from YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Vimeo or X, and translate the transcript. Episodes over 30 minutes ask before translating, because the translation runs while you wait.
How do Russian names and patronymics appear in English?
In Latin letters, where the spelling can vary (Yuri or Yury). Short forms like Sasha stay short forms, so decide whether your English uses the full name and keep it consistent.
Will the difference between ты and вы show in the English?
No: English uses "you" for both. The meaning of the sentence carries over; the level of formality shows only in tone.

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