Translate Video to Chinese (Mandarin)
Mandarin dub plus 简体 or 繁體 captions — for YouTube's global Chinese audience and platforms beyond.
Chinese (Mandarin) video translation with AI dubbing
The global Chinese-speaking audience on YouTube — Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and the diaspora — is large, affluent and underserved, since mainland creators publish inside a separate platform ecosystem. Localizing for it means two choices ViralMint makes explicit: simplified (简体) versus traditional (繁體) characters for the captions, and a Mandarin voice for the dub (Cantonese audiences read traditional captions but the spoken dub is a separate decision). Whisper transcribes Mandarin originals natively — ViralMint's own users lean on it for competitor research on Chinese platforms — so the pipeline runs in both directions. CJK caption rendering, line-breaking and punctuation are handled correctly in the burned-in style.
How to translate a video to Chinese (Mandarin)
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Import the video
Open Translate & Dub in the desktop app and drop in your file. Local Whisper transcribes the original — on your machine, nothing uploads.
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Translate the script
The AI translates the transcript into Chinese (Mandarin) (中文). Pin the register or dialect once with a plain-language instruction and the whole script stays consistent.
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Pick the Chinese (Mandarin) voice
Free Edge voices, premium Gemini voices, or your own cloned voice speaking Chinese (Mandarin) — the dub renders timed to your original cut points.
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Captions and export
Word-by-word Chinese (Mandarin) captions burn in the same pass. Export the finished mp4 — no watermark — and post it as a native Chinese (Mandarin) upload.
Frequently Asked Questions
Simplified or traditional characters?
Depends on the audience: Taiwan and Hong Kong read traditional (繁體), Singapore/Malaysia and the mainland diaspora read simplified (简体). The translation step outputs either on instruction; if you must pick one for YouTube, traditional covers the platform's largest paying Chinese markets.
Mandarin or Cantonese for the dub?
The dub voices are Mandarin (zh-CN and zh-TW variants). Cantonese TTS is a different track — for Hong Kong audiences, a Mandarin dub with traditional captions is the common compromise, since written Chinese is shared.
Does Chinese-to-English translation work too?
Yes, and it's a popular direction — Whisper transcribes Mandarin natively, so Chinese originals (your own or competitor research material you have rights to use) can be translated and dubbed into English with the same pipeline.