diff --git a/src/renderer/views/Watch/Watch.js b/src/renderer/views/Watch/Watch.js
index b7fd1bb0..cbe1e48f 100644
--- a/src/renderer/views/Watch/Watch.js
+++ b/src/renderer/views/Watch/Watch.js
@@ -382,6 +382,16 @@ export default Vue.extend({
                   .captionTracks
 
               if (typeof captionTracks !== 'undefined') {
+                const standardLocale = localStorage.getItem('locale').replace('_', '-')
+                const noLocaleCaption = !captionTracks.some(track =>
+                  track.languageCode === standardLocale && track.kind !== 'asr'
+                )
+
+                if (!standardLocale.startsWith('en') && noLocaleCaption) {
+                  const baseUrl = result.player_response.captions.playerCaptionsRenderer.baseUrl
+                  this.tryAddingAutoGeneratedLocaleCaption(captionTracks, standardLocale, baseUrl)
+                }
+
                 this.captionHybridList = this.createCaptionPromiseList(captionTracks)
 
                 const captionLinks = captionTracks.map((caption) => {
@@ -1041,14 +1051,51 @@ export default Vue.extend({
       })
     },
 
+    tryAddingAutoGeneratedLocaleCaption: function (captionTracks, locale, baseUrl) {
+      const enCaptionIdx = captionTracks.findIndex(track =>
+        track.languageCode === 'en' && track.kind !== 'asr'
+      )
+
+      const enCaptionExists = enCaptionIdx !== -1
+      const asrEnabled = captionTracks.some(track => track.kind === 'asr')
+
+      if (enCaptionExists || asrEnabled) {
+        let label
+        let url
+
+        if (this.$te('Video.translated from English') && this.$t('Video.translated from English') !== '') {
+          label = `${this.$t('Locale Name')} (${this.$t('Video.translated from English')})`
+        } else {
+          label = `${this.$t('Locale Name')} (translated from English)`
+        }
+
+        if (enCaptionExists) {
+          url = new URL(captionTracks[enCaptionIdx].baseUrl)
+        } else {
+          url = new URL(baseUrl)
+          url.searchParams.set('lang', 'en')
+          url.searchParams.set('kind', 'asr')
+        }
+
+        url.searchParams.set('tlang', locale)
+        captionTracks.unshift({
+          baseUrl: url.toString(),
+          name: { simpleText: label },
+          languageCode: locale
+        })
+      }
+    },
+
     createCaptionPromiseList: function (captionTracks) {
       return captionTracks.map(caption => new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
         caption.type = 'text/vtt'
         caption.charset = 'charset=utf-8'
         caption.dataSource = 'local'
-        caption.baseUrl += '&fmt=vtt'
 
-        $.get(caption.baseUrl, response => {
+        const url = new URL(caption.baseUrl)
+        url.searchParams.set('fmt', 'vtt')
+
+        $.get(url.toString(), response => {
           // The character '#' needs to be percent-encoded in a (data) URI
           // because it signals an identifier, which means anything after it
           // is automatically removed when the URI is used as a source
diff --git a/static/locales/en-US.yaml b/static/locales/en-US.yaml
index 4b969536..7dcf4bee 100644
--- a/static/locales/en-US.yaml
+++ b/static/locales/en-US.yaml
@@ -466,6 +466,7 @@ Video:
   Published on: Published on
   Streamed on: Streamed on
   Started streaming on: Started streaming on
+  translated from English: translated from English
   # $ is replaced with the number and % with the unit (days, hours, minutes...)
   Publicationtemplate: $ % ago
 #& Videos