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Dub German to English in real time
German lectures, broadcasts, technical talks and meetings, translated into English about a second behind the speaker, as subtitles in the player or a spoken English voice.
Up and running in three steps
Open the German audio
A lecture portal, a broadcaster player, a conference replay, or a live call.
Pick English
Subtitles, spoken dubbing, or both, switched at any point.
The verb arrives at the end
German subordinate clauses hold the verb until the end, and a live translator that guesses early gets the action wrong and has to walk it back. AnyDub waits for the clause to close before committing, which is why long, structured German sentences come out as sentences rather than as a stream of corrections.
Compound nouns get the same treatment. A word invented on the spot is translated as the thing it describes rather than transliterated.
Install on ChromeAustrian, Swiss and the dialects
Standard German from a newsreader and Swiss German from an interview subject are not the same listening problem, and a system tuned only on broadcast speech loses the second one. Translating from audio means regional speech is handled as it comes, without a setting to change first.
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Learners usually want English subtitles with the German at full volume. Someone sitting in a meeting they cannot pause wants the spoken track. Both come from the same session and you can switch between them mid-sentence.
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German to English in work and study
German universities and research institutes publish an enormous amount of lecture and seminar video, much of it excellent and almost none of it subtitled beyond German. For an English-speaking student or researcher that material is effectively invisible.
Industry is the larger case. German engineering, automotive and industrial firms run training, standards briefings and supplier sessions in German, and the international teams who depend on those decisions read the summary rather than watching the session.
In meetings the useful arrangement is usually for the German speakers to stay in German while everyone else reads English, which is what two-way translation is for.
Questions about this language pair
Does it handle long German sentences correctly?
It waits for the clause to close before translating, which is what stops the verb-final structure producing a translation that has to correct itself.
Are Austrian and Swiss German supported?
Yes. Regional speech is translated from the audio without selecting a variant.
Does it work on university lecture portals?
Yes. Any page that plays audio in Chrome works, not only the big video platforms.
Can I keep the German audible while reading English?
Yes, and for language learners that is the recommended setup.
Does it work on German live meetings?
Yes, on Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Webex.
Is there a free plan?
Yes, with a monthly allowance of translation minutes.
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Start watching German video in English
Install the extension, pick a language, and you are live.
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