18.9k stars · GPL-3.0 · v4.12 (2026-09-06) · Track this in Scout
Desktop GUI for video translation and dubbing with a batch queue — the least programmer-hostile bilingual option.
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What it is
A desktop application that takes a video and produces a translated, subtitled and optionally dubbed version: transcription, translation, voice synthesis and subtitle burn-in in one interface. It speaks to Whisper for the transcript and to several translation and voice engines, including edge-tts and ElevenLabs.
What it is good for. Edition 1 covered VideoLingo for this job, and VideoLingo is the more elegant tool — but it is a Python-and-conda install behind a Streamlit interface, the kind of thing that eats an evening before it works once. This is the pragmatic alternative: a real window, settings you change by clicking, and a batch queue. That queue is the feature that actually earns its place. Every English tutorial already sitting on a disk is a Russian video nobody has published; point this at the folder, go to bed, and wake up to a Russian catalogue. And it connects to both voice paths this radar has already covered — free edge-tts from yesterday's edition for drafts, a paid ElevenLabs key for anything that gets published.
- A genuine graphical application — by a distance the least programmer-hostile option here
- Batch mode turns an existing English back-catalogue into a Russian one in one unattended run
- Talks to edge-tts and ElevenLabs, so it slots into the voice setup you already pay for
- Chinese-first documentation and a Windows-first release. The Mac path exists but is second-class
- GPL-3.0 — a tool you run, never something to embed in a product you ship
- Auto-dubbed audio drifts against on-screen callouts. A screencast with tight cursor timing still needs a manual pass
