You're reading Help for the Yandex Start on Android.
Help for Yandex app on Android →
Help for Yandex app on iOS →

Subtitles

The interactive subtitles created by Yandex can help you learn a foreign language, understand the meaning of a song, or sing karaoke. Subtitles can match the video's original language or be translated into Russian or another language. When viewing subtitles for the original language, you can tap an unfamiliar word to see its translation.

Watch video with subtitles

Note

You can enable and configure subtitles only when the video isn't in fullscreen mode.

The process of enabling and setting up subtitles depends on the video's original language (Russian or another language).

Videos in other languages

Yandex Start can show subtitles for videos that have been translated for voice-over by Yandex.

A foreign-language video without a Yandex translation may also have subtitles, but those would be provided by the hosting platform (for example, YouTube) or the video uploader. Such subtitles, if available, need to be turned on the same way as Yandex subtitles.

Note

Yandex provides subtitles for videos on a number of hosting sites, including Coursera, VK, YouTube, Twitch, Vimeo, and 9GAG.

Videos are translated into Russian from English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Chinese. The technology is still under development, so not all videos are translated at the moment.

If translation is available, you'll see the icon saying Translate video.

Enable and configure subtitles

  1. Next to the translation icon, tap .
  2. Enable Subtitles.
  3. Configure the subtitles:
    • Subtitle language: You can select the original language or translation. If the video already has subtitles, you can select the service's subtitles instead of Yandex ones.
    • Highlight words: The words that are currently being spoken are highlighted. The option is only available for Yandex subtitles in the original language.

Note

If you have the original-language subtitles enabled and want to translate a word, just tap it. The translation of the word and phrase will appear in a popup window and the video will be paused. To continue watching, tap anywhere on the video.

Turn off subtitles

Tap the word Subtitles.

Russian-language video

Enable subtitles

  1. Tap anywhere on the video.
  2. Tap .
  3. Enable Subtitles.

Turn off subtitles

  1. Tap anywhere on the video.
  2. Tap .
  3. Disable Subtitles.

Note

If there's no icon on the video, check if Untranslated subtitles are enabled in the app settings.

Troubleshooting

There's no Subtitles button on the video
  1. Check if video and subtitle translation is enabled in the Yandex app:

    1. Go to  (profile picture) → App settings.

    2. Make sure that Translate videos and subtitles and Untranslated subtitles are enabled.
  2. If you're watching a video in fullscreen mode or on top of other apps (picture-in-picture), subtitles aren't available. To enable and configure subtitles, return to normal mode. Then you can reopen the video in fullscreen or on top of apps.
Go to the table of contents
Contact support