YouTube dubbing for Chrome
EarDub is a free YouTube dubbing extension for Chrome. Open a captioned video, click once, and listen to a natural AI voice instead of reading subtitles.
Ahora puedes escuchar cada idea sin leer subtítulos.
Now you can hear every idea without reading subtitles.
EarDub is a free YouTube dubbing extension for Chrome that dubs YouTube videos into your native language while you watch. It extracts the video's captions, translates them with AI into complete sentences, generates speech with natural neural voices, and plays the dub in sync with the original video.
EarDub dubs YouTube videos, plus Udemy and Coursera lectures once you allow those sites. It runs only where you let it, so it never touches your other tabs or reads a page it has no business reading. More platforms are on the roadmap.
Dub a YouTube video in one click. No file uploads, no editing tools, no waiting around.
Any video with captions works, including the auto-generated ones — that covers most of YouTube
It sits in the player controls. One click and EarDub translates the captions and dubs the video
The dub plays in sync with the picture, so you can watch instead of reading
Subtitle translators make you read. An AI YouTube dubber reads to you — and keeps every sentence intact.
Most tools translate caption fragments one line at a time, which is why the result reads like a machine wrote it. EarDub merges the captions into full sentences first, so the AI YouTube dubbing sees complete thoughts before it translates. Every translation is quality-checked and retried automatically when it falls short.
Pick the voice that fits the video: calm narration for a documentary, bright and energetic for a vlog, male or female, across 17 languages and regional accents. Change the voice mid-video and the next sentence uses it.
The dub follows the video's word-level timestamps instead of guessing. Every sentence plays to the end, and speech speeds up gently (up to 1.45x) when it needs to catch up, so you never lose the second half of a point. Seek anywhere and the dub realigns.
Independent volume sliders for the original soundtrack and the dub. Keep the speaker's real voice quietly underneath so you still hear the room and the emotion, or mute it entirely and listen to the dub alone.
Show translated subtitles while you listen, resize them from 14 to 28 px, or hide them completely. Reading becomes a choice instead of the only way to follow a foreign-language video.
Dubbing starts only when you click the button, and the extension runs only on YouTube and the course sites you allow. Nothing is swapped without asking, and no other site sees any activity — the opposite of having a dub forced on you.
Three ways to understand a foreign-language video, compared honestly.
| Capability | EarDub | YouTube auto dubbing | Subtitle translators |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context-aware AI translation, not word-for-word | Context-aware AI | Literal | Literal text |
| Choose from multiple AI voices | 60+ voices | ||
| Voices in languages YouTube can't dub (Turkish, Vietnamese, Chinese) | |||
| Works on any captioned video | All captioned videos | Only creator-enabled videos | |
| Viewer decides when dubbing is on | On by default | ||
| Listen instead of reading | |||
| Mix original and dubbed volume | |||
| Bilingual subtitles while dubbing |
Comparison reflects publicly documented behavior of YouTube auto-dubbing and typical subtitle translation extensions as of June 2026.
Getting auto-dubbed videos you did not ask for? How to turn off YouTube auto dubbing.
Every language ships with multiple male and female neural voices, so the dub can match the tone of the video. Pick a target language below to see which voices YouTube dubbing gives you.
10 voices · 晓晓 · 云扬
3 voices · 曉曼 · 雲松
3 voices · 曉雨 · 雲哲
4 voices · Nanami · Keita
4 voices · SunHi · InJoon
6 voices · Jenny · Andrew
Source videos: any language with captions. Auto-detection works best with English, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish.
EarDub is a free Chrome extension that dubs YouTube videos into your native language. It extracts the video's captions, translates them with AI, generates natural-sounding speech, and plays it in sync with the video. You can dub into 17 languages — including English, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Vietnamese, and Turkish — with 60+ voices.
The free plan includes 30 minutes of dubbing per day, up to 3 videos daily, with each video up to 60 minutes long. Basic is $9.99/month and includes 60 hours per month, videos up to 3 hours, up to 20 videos daily, context-aware AI translation, and email support. Pro is $19.99/month with unlimited dubbing time, video length, and daily videos, plus context-aware AI translation and email replies within 24 hours. Both paid plans can also be billed yearly for less than the price of 9 months (3 months free): Basic $89/year, Pro $179/year.
EarDub dubs into 17 languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Russian, Arabic, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Turkish, and Polish — each with multiple natural neural voices (60+ in total). Source videos can be in any language that has captions; automatic language detection works best with English, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish videos.
Install EarDub from the Chrome Web Store with the "Add to Chrome" button, then open or refresh any YouTube tab. EarDub officially supports desktop Google Chrome; other Chromium browsers such as Edge may work but are not yet officially tested. Dubbing requires a free Google sign-in, which takes one click.
EarDub builds the dub from the video's captions, so a video with no captions at all cannot be dubbed yet. Most popular videos have at least auto-generated captions, which work fine. If the CC button is missing entirely, the creator disabled captions and YouTube generated none. Speech-recognition support for caption-less videos is planned.
EarDub uses neural text-to-speech voices, the same class of voices used by professional narration tools, not the robotic system voices older extensions rely on. Each language offers multiple voices with different tones. If a voice does not fit the video, switch to another one in the extension popup; the change applies to the next sentences immediately.
Yes, in three ways. First, some videos include extra audio tracks: click the settings gear, then "Audio track". Second, subtitles: enable captions and pick an auto-translated language. Third, a dubbing extension like EarDub, which speaks the translation aloud in sync and works on any captioned video, even when the first two options are missing.
Per video: click the settings gear in the player, open "Audio track", and choose the original language track. As of mid-2026 YouTube offers no reliable account-wide switch to disable auto-dubbing everywhere, which is a common complaint. If you want dubbing only when you ask for it, with a voice you choose, that is exactly the control EarDub gives you.
Subtitles preserve the original voices but chain your eyes to the bottom of the screen, which is tiring for long videos and useless while multitasking. Dubbing lets you absorb content by listening, like a podcast. With EarDub you do not have to choose: it plays the dub and can show bilingual subtitles at the same time, with the original voice mixed underneath at any volume.
Install the free YouTube dubbing extension, sign in with Google, and dub for 30 minutes every day at no cost. No credit card to start.