A stupid YouTube song translator as a Chrome extension, created at Stupid Hackathon Amsterdam 2017.
Created by:
- Char Tedesco
- Erwin Rossen
- Eric Gourlaouen
- Download the repository on your disk
- Go to
chrome://extensions - Check the Developer Mode option
- Click on the Load unpacked extension button, select
youtube-translatordirectory - Go to any YouTube video that has subtitles
- ???
- Profit!
The extension works on any YouTube video that has a transcript, in a selection of languages (Korean, Japanese, Chinese, French, Dutch, Spanish, English). If it finds a transcript, it translates it to the language of your browser, and starts Text-to-Speech at the right timing. It takes a little time to load up, but ensures hilarity.
It doesn't exactly work every time, but you can try it on some videos, like this K-pop video, Despacito, or this Tupac video. Sometimes, it fails because it doesn't find any transcript - sometimes, it fails because the translation API refuses to translate (we're using a free key),