Qanat: Uyghur Subtitles

Qanat brings Uyghur subtitles to YouTube, automatically translating captions so Uyghur speakers can watch any video in their language.

WHAT IT DOES

YouTube hosts an enormous amount of content — tutorials, documentaries, news, lectures, entertainment — but almost none of it is subtitled in Uyghur. Qanat bridges that gap. When you open any YouTube video that has captions (including auto-generated ones), Qanat silently intercepts the caption track, translates it to Uyghur using Google Translate, and displays the result as a native-style subtitle overlay on the video — synchronized to the exact moment each line is spoken.

The subtitles appear automatically. There are no buttons to click, no copy-pasting, no waiting for a page to reload. You just watch.

HOW IT WORKS

Qanat runs entirely inside your browser. When a video loads, it detects whether captions are available. If they are, it fetches the caption track, parses the timestamps, and begins translating each line progressively in the background — starting from the beginning so that by the time you reach any given moment, the translation is ready and waiting.