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Swahili and English captions, translated as the video plays

Wuai is a free app for Windows and Android that captions the videos you watch and translates the captions in real time, on your device. These screenshots show it turning Swahili speech into English captions and English speech into Swahili captions, on Windows and on Android.

A Swahili video with English captions

Wuai on Windows: a Swahili video with English captions, “But South Africa is not my country.” over “Lakini South Africa siwa nchiangu.”.
Windows: Lakini South Africa siwa nchiangu. → But South Africa is not my country.

Video: WIKITONGUES- Iddy speaking Swahili by Bogreudell, CC BY-SA 4.0, on Wikimedia Commons.

An English video with Swahili captions

Wuai on Windows: a English video with Swahili captions, “Nina Catherine Trautmann.” over “I am Catherine Trautmann.”.
Windows: I am Catherine Trautmann. → Nina Catherine Trautmann.
Wuai on Android: a English video with Swahili captions, “Mimi ni Catherine Trautmann.” over “I am Catherine Trautmann.”.
Android: I am Catherine Trautmann. → Mimi ni Catherine Trautmann.

Video: Trautmann, Catherine (en) by Manuel Schneider, CC BY 3.0, on Wikimedia Commons.

How to

  1. Open the video in Wuai: go to its website, or paste its link. A video file works too.
  2. Turn on captions: Captions beside the video on Windows, CC on Android.
  3. Under Spoken language, keep Auto-detect or choose the language spoken.
  4. Turn on Translate captions and choose Swahili or English under Translate to.
  5. Under Show, tick Original too to see both lines, as here.

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Where

Wuai translates captions into Swahili on Windows and Android, and makes captions from Swahili speech on both. See every language.

Shot on November 1, 2026 with Wuai Pro switched on, the captions as Wuai made them. Other speech and translation models' captions can differ. Android and Windows translate 30 minutes of video for free; iPhone and Mac require Pro for translation.

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