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How to translate Bilibili videos to English (and English videos to Chinese)

Updated June 2026 · 5 min read

The short answer

To translate a Bilibili video, paste its link into an AI dubbing tool that supports Bilibili ingest — it pulls the video, translates the speech, and dubs it while keeping the original voice and background audio. WaveShift handles Bilibili and YouTube links directly, in both directions between Chinese and English (and eight more languages).

Why Bilibili videos are awkward to translate

Bilibili is one of China's largest video platforms, full of tutorials, reviews, and creator content that rarely travels beyond a Chinese-speaking audience. Going the other way — bringing English videos to a Bilibili audience — has the same friction.

Manually downloading, transcribing, translating, and re-voicing a Bilibili video is slow. A tool that ingests the link and dubs it directly removes most of that work.

Translate a Bilibili video step by step

The process is the same whether you are translating out of or into Chinese:

  • Paste the Bilibili link (or upload a file, or paste a YouTube or direct link).
  • Choose the target language — for example Chinese to English, or English to Chinese.
  • WaveShift transcribes, translates, and clones the speaker's voice.
  • It mixes the dubbed speech back over the original background audio.
  • Playback streams within minutes, and you can fix any single line.

Both directions, and beyond Chinese and English

WaveShift is not limited to one direction. You can bring a Chinese Bilibili video to an English audience, or localize an English video into Chinese for Bilibili. Beyond Chinese and English, it supports Japanese, Korean, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Russian, and Italian.

Keep the creator's voice and the music

Bilibili content often leans on the creator's personality and on background music. WaveShift clones the speaker's voice so the translated version still sounds like them, and separates speech from background audio so the music and effects stay intact.

Tips for cross-border creators

A few habits make cross-border posting smoother:

  • Review one representative segment before processing a long video.
  • Use single-line re-dubbing to fix names, terms, or any awkward line.
  • Remember minutes are counted from source duration, not per language, so testing a short clip is cheap.

Frequently asked questions

Yes. Paste the Bilibili link and WaveShift ingests the video, then translates and dubs it. It also accepts YouTube links, direct video links, and uploaded files.
Yes. WaveShift works in both directions — Chinese to English and English to Chinese — plus eight other languages.
Where possible, yes. WaveShift clones the speaker's voice so the translated audio keeps the original speaker identity.
WaveShift translates and dubs between English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Russian, and Italian.
Minutes are calculated from the source video duration, regardless of the target language. A 10-minute video uses 10 minutes.

Keep exploring

How to dub a YouTube video into another languageHow to translate a video while keeping the background musicSee WaveShift pricing

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