🇨🇳 Free Chinese Transcription

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Free AI-powered Chinese video transcription. Upload any video and get accurate Chinese text in minutes. Perfect for content creators, researchers, and journalists.

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Why Chinese transcription matters

Chinese (Mandarin) is the most spoken language globally with over 1.1 billion speakers across China, Taiwan, Singapore, and Chinese diaspora communities. China has the world's largest internet user base and a rapidly growing online video market led by platforms like Bilibili, Douyin (TikTok China), and Youku. Adding Chinese subtitles unlocks access to the world's largest digital audience and a content market worth over $50 billion.

Three steps to Chinese text

From upload to Chinese transcript in under 3 minutes.

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Upload your video

Drop any video — MP4, MKV, MOV. Up to 500 MB.

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AI transcribes Chinese

Whisper recognizes Chinese speech and converts it to accurate text with timestamps.

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Download text

Get your Chinese transcript as TXT, SRT, VTT, or ASS.

What you can do with a Chinese transcript

Blog posts in Chinese

Repurpose video content into Chinese articles and SEO-friendly text.

Searchable archives

Search through Chinese transcripts for quotes, data, and insights.

Video SEO

Embed Chinese transcripts on video pages — Google indexes the text.

Social content

Pull Chinese quotes for Twitter, LinkedIn, and newsletters.

Chinese transcription FAQs

Does FlowSub support both Simplified and Traditional Chinese?

FlowSub's transcription generates Simplified Chinese by default, which is used in mainland China, Singapore, and Malaysia. For Traditional Chinese (used in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau), use AI translation to convert — or generate Simplified and manually convert using the built-in editor.

How accurate is Chinese transcription with Whisper?

Whisper handles Mandarin Chinese well, including tonal distinctions and regional accents. Accuracy is highest for standard Putonghua. Dialects like Cantonese or Shanghainese may have reduced accuracy since Whisper is primarily trained on Mandarin. For mixed-language content (Chinese + English), accuracy remains high.

Can I generate Chinese subtitles for my English YouTube videos?

Yes. Upload your video, generate English subtitles, then use FlowSub's AI translation to create Chinese subtitles. Upload the SRT file to YouTube as a separate subtitle track. This dramatically expands your reach to Chinese-speaking viewers — YouTube's second-largest language audience by viewership.