Show subtitles in several languages at once
One video — or one speaker — and several readers. Subtitles can translate the same audio into more than one language at the same time — for a mixed classroom, an audience listening to you, a family movie night, or a learner who wants both their own language and a second one they’re studying.
How many languages you can run at once depends on your plan; Pricing has the numbers. The overlay tells you too: “Your plan allows up to … subtitle languages at a time”.
Choose the languages
- Your usual set: Settings then Session then Subtitles then Languages then Subtitle languages. These fill in the chips in the overlay every time.
- For this session: in the overlay, under Subtitle languages, remove a chip with its × or press + Add language. At your plan’s limit, + Add language is disabled.
If your saved defaults contain more languages than your plan allows, Start Subtitles asks you to “remove the extra ones to start” rather than dropping one silently.
You can also add a language while Subtitles are running: + Add language in the running panel starts another line shortly after.
Control each language
While a session runs, every language has its own row in the overlay with three small controls:
- Eye — “Hide the Español subtitles” / “Show…”. Hides just that language’s captions, wherever they are. Translation keeps running, and the line is still saved to your history.
- ⧉ Pop out — “Show Español in its own window”. That language gets a separate caption window you can drag to a second display, or to the other side of the screen for the person sitting next to you. The same button — or the window’s own return button — puts it back in the shared window.
- × End — “End Español subtitles”; click again on End? to confirm. That language stops (and stops using your allowance) while the others continue. The last remaining language has no ×: stop the session instead.
The Original transcript line isn’t tied to any one language — end whichever you like and it carries on.
From the menu bar
The menu-bar icon has a Subtitles submenu while a session is running:
- Show Subtitles / Hide Subtitles — every caption window at once.
- Show / Hide each popped-out language on its own.
- Return all to one window.
The shared caption window also has its own × when you point at it; that hides just that window and the languages in it.
Tell the lines apart
Give each language its own text and background color, so nobody has to hunt for their line: Settings then Overlay then Subtitles then Per-language colors. The language chips in the overlay show each language’s colors as a small swatch. Details in Subtitle appearance.