Install AnyDub
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Dub Arabic to English in real time
Arabic broadcast, lectures, and live calls translated into English about a second behind the speaker, as subtitles in the player or a spoken English voice, straight from a Chrome tab.
Up and running in three steps
Open the Arabic audio
A news channel, a lecture, a recorded session, or a live meeting.
Set output to English
Subtitles, dubbing, or both, changed whenever you want.
Dialects not only Modern Standard
Almost nobody speaks Modern Standard Arabic in conversation, but almost every translation tool is tuned for it. Egyptian, Levantine, Gulf and Maghrebi Arabic differ enough that a system trained on newsreader speech loses the thread within a sentence. AnyDub translates the speech in front of it, including the switch that happens when a formal broadcast cuts to a street interview.
Install on ChromeRight to left renders correctly
Going the other direction, English into Arabic, the subtitles render right to left with the correct shaping and joining rather than as a broken left to right string. The same holds for Hebrew, Persian and Urdu.
Install on ChromeLive broadcast is the hard case
Rolling news has overlapping speakers, phone-quality remote guests, and long stretches with no clean sentence boundary. AnyDub is built for the streaming case rather than for finished files, so it keeps producing usable English through material that has no tidy stopping point.
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Who needs Arabic translated live
Newsrooms and analysts are the obvious ones. Arabic-language broadcast frequently carries a statement or a development before any English wire picks it up, and by the time a translation exists the useful window has closed.
Academic and religious material is the quieter, larger case. Lecture series, seminars and commentary run to thousands of hours, with essentially no English subtitling, and the audience that wants them is largely not fluent in formal Arabic.
For work, Gulf and North African business calls often run in Arabic with an English speaker on the line who is quietly lost. Live call translation on Zoom and Google Meet is the fix, and it does not require anyone else to install anything.
Questions about this language pair
Does AnyDub handle Arabic dialects or only Modern Standard Arabic?
Both. Egyptian, Levantine, Gulf and Maghrebi speech are translated from the audio, including material that moves between a dialect and Modern Standard.
Can I translate English into Arabic as well?
Yes, and the Arabic subtitles render right to left with correct letter shaping.
Does it work on live Arabic news streams?
Yes. Live streaming audio is the primary case, so there is no waiting for a finished recording.
Do I need Arabic captions on the video first?
No. AnyDub works from speech, so uncaptioned video is fine.
Can I keep the Arabic audio audible?
Yes. The mixer sets the original voice anywhere between muted and full volume under the English track.
Is there a free plan?
Yes, with a monthly allowance of translation minutes. Paid plans raise the allowance.
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Live meeting translationZoom, Google Meet, Teams and Webex, translated as people speak.
Start watching Arabic video in English
Install the extension, pick a language, and you are live.
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