A Chinese voice message or lecture clip? Read it in English
For a supplier's voice note, a clip from a course you're taking abroad, or the part of a meeting you missed. Upload up to 3 minutes of Chinese audio and get what was said, then the same in English — usually in under a minute. 3 free uses a day, no account.
Up to 3 minutes and 25 MB. 3 free uses a day.
How it works
- Choose the Chinese voice note or clip — up to 3 minutes
- We write down what was said, then translate it into English — usually in under a minute
- Copy or download both as a TXT file
Listening to Chinese
- How it sounds
- Mandarin is tonal — the pitch of a syllable changes its meaning — and Cantonese is a different spoken language.
- Mixed speech
- Mandarin speech in business borrows English words; Cantonese in Hong Kong mixes English heavily — the transcript keeps it as it was said before it is translated.
- Sentence order
- Chinese and English both put the verb after the subject, so most sentences keep their shape; idioms still need rewording.
- Where it is spoken
- Chinese is spoken in China, Taiwan, Singapore and by communities worldwide.
What changes in English
- Politeness
- Chinese has nǐ (familiar) and nín (respectful); in English it becomes "you", with the respect carried by the wording.
- Numbers
- Numbers said in Chinese come out as figures (0–9) in the English.
Example
What was said (Chinese):
嗨，我是Maria。我会迟到十分钟，请不用等我，先开始开会吧。
You read (English):
Hi, I am Maria. I will be ten minutes late, please don't wait for me and start the meeting without me.
Example made with our translator from a sample sentence. Machine translation can make mistakes — check names, dates and amounts.
Audio or text?
Use this page when you have Chinese audio — a voice note, a call or a lecture clip. If you already have the Chinese as text, the text translator is quicker. Chinese to English translator
Questions
Is translating Chinese audio to English free?
Yes — clips up to 3 minutes and 25 MB, 3 times a day, no sign-up.
Will it follow a Chinese speaker with a strong accent?
Clear audio with one speaker at a time works best. Strong regional accents and background noise can cause mistakes, so check names and numbers against the recording.
Do I get the Chinese transcript too?
Yes — what was said in Chinese first, then the English.
What about long recordings?
Sign up free for recordings up to 100 minutes, or get Pro for 2-hour files and one question across all your recordings.
What a free account adds
- Keep each translation in the same note as the original.
- Translate whole recordings — 300 minutes a month free, files up to 100 minutes.
What Pro adds
- Ask one question across all your recordings and folders — “What did the supplier agree to, and in which call?” — and get the answer with the recording or note it came from.
- 1,200 minutes a month (free: 300) and files up to 2 hours.
- ₹299/month or ₹2,990/year in India; $6.99/month or $49/year elsewhere.