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Everything about AI video translation
Full guides on lip-sync, voice cloning, animated subtitles, pricing and rights — one article per question.
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Product & Features
15 articles- What Is AI Lip-Sync and How Does It Work?The model tracks the face, breaks the translated audio into phonemes, and regenerates only the mouth region frame by frame. GoSync 3.0 ships on every plan, and HQ costs double the tokens.Read article →
- What Is GoSync 3.0?GeckoDub's lip-sync engine predicts mouth movement behind hands, phones and mics, tracks speakers in profile, and maps several faces at once. On every plan, with HQ at double the tokens.Read article →
- How Does AI Voice Cloning Work for Video Translation?Cloning analyses the speaker's voice in your existing audio, builds a model of it, then speaks the translated script through that model, keeping pitch, pace and emotional delivery.Read article →
- What Are Animated Subtitles?Each word lights up the moment it is spoken, timed automatically to the dubbed audio and styled through your Brand Kit. Included on the Creator Pro and Scale plans.Read article →
- What Is AI Video Translation?Five steps run on your existing footage: transcription, contextual translation, voice cloning, lip-sync and subtitles. No avatar and no re-shoot, and you approve the script before dubbing.Read article →
- What Is Contextual Translation, and How Does It Differ From Word-for-Word?Translating intent rather than words is what keeps a hook, a CTA and the emotional register working in a new market. It is the default, and you can still rewrite lines before dubbing.Read article →
- What Is Occlusion Handling in AI Lip-Sync?When a hand, mic or product blocks the mouth, weaker models smear the frame. GoSync 3.0 predicts the hidden lip movement from jaw, cheek and head angle while leaving the object intact.Read article →
- What Is Multi-Speaker Detection in AI Dubbing?Facial mapping inside GoSync 3.0 tracks each person across cuts, attributes the audio to whoever is actually talking, and generates lip movement per speaker so the silent one stays silent.Read article →
- What Is Smart Translation Control?The proofreading editor shows the original and translation side by side with a live 0-100 fit score, so you fix the script before any dubbing. Included on Starter, Creator Pro and Scale.Read article →
- What Are the Custom Glossary and Brand Kit?Save your Don't Translate list, per-language wording and subtitle fonts once, and every later project follows them across all 70+ languages instead of being fixed render by render.Read article →
- How Does Bulk Video Upload Work?Queue a batch, set target languages once, and collect the finished videos as a single zip. It is a Creator Pro and Scale feature, and 10 videos into 3 languages costs 30 jobs of tokens.Read article →
- What Video Formats Are Supported for AI Translation?Any standard container uploads, up to 500 MB per video. Clean audio matters more than resolution: a crisp 1080p file beats a 4K master with wind, echo or loud music.Read article →
- What Is the Maximum Video File Size for AI Translation?The cap is 512MB per file, not per library, and oversized files are caught before the transfer starts. A 30-second 1080p ad is typically 25 to 50MB, so ad creatives rarely come close.Read article →
- How Long Does AI Video Translation Take?Processing runs about two to five times the length of the video, so a 30-second ad lands in one to three minutes. Queued videos process independently, so six languages take about as long as one.Read article →
- Does AI Translation Reduce Video Quality?No. Resolution, aspect ratio and framing carry over from your source; only the audio, the mouth region and subtitles change. Most quality complaints trace back to a pre-compressed upload.Read article →
Pricing & Plans
10 articles- How Much Does AI Video Translation Cost in 2026?Starter is €25 a month for 100 tokens, roughly 13 minutes of video. A translated minute costs about €2, rising to €5 with standard lip-sync and €10 with GoSync 3.0.Read article →
- Is There a Free AI Video Translation Trial?The trial covers two videos with no credit card, roughly 15 seconds each and up to two target languages, watermarked. Spend them on your hardest clip, not your cleanest.Read article →
- AI Dubbing vs Traditional Agencies: Cost ComparisonAgencies quote €50 to €100 per finished minute per language on a 3 to 7 day turnaround. GeckoDub is a flat subscription from €25 a month, delivered in minutes.Read article →
- Tokens vs Minutes: How AI Translation Pricing WorksOne shared token pool covers translation, voice cloning and lip-sync, so you pick the mix. HQ lip-sync draws double, and tokens get cheaper on the larger plans.Read article →
- Does GeckoDub Bill Monthly or Yearly?Every plan is month-to-month, so there is no annual discount to weigh. The real decision is which tier, and buying smaller is safer: upgrades apply instantly and top-ups run 5 to 15 percent cheaper.Read article →
- Do I Get Commercial Rights for AI-Translated Videos?Yes, and on every plan. The terms name you exclusive owner of each localised video, so you can run it as paid ads, TV or client work with no royalty and no credit to GeckoDub.Read article →
- What Is the Cheapest AI Video Translation Tool in 2026?GeckoDub works out at roughly €1.90 per finished minute on the €25 Starter plan and about €1.30 on Scale. Lower monthly prices elsewhere usually mean the tool does less.Read article →
- How Much Does AI Lip-Sync Cost?There is no add-on charge. On Starter the token maths works out near €5 per lip-synced minute at standard quality and €10 with GoSync 3.0, which does double the per-frame work.Read article →
- What Does the Scale Plan Include for Agencies?Scale is €199 a month for 1,000 tokens, around 155 minutes, plus priority support and 15 percent off top-ups. True multi-seat access is not included and sits under custom pricing.Read article →
- How to Cancel or Downgrade Your PlanCancel or downgrade yourself in account settings, with no fee and no retention call. Your plan and tokens run to the end of the paid period, but payments are final.Read article →
Use Cases & Strategy
12 articles- How to Translate Meta (Facebook) Video Ads with AILocalize your top three to five ads by ROAS rather than the whole library, then run one ad set per country. Stacking languages into one set costs you per-market reporting.Read article →
- How to Translate TikTok Ads into Multiple LanguagesTalking-head UGC is exactly what voice cloning and lip-sync handle best, and CPMs outside the US and UK stretch the same creative further. Test Spanish, Portuguese and German first.Read article →
- How to Translate UGC Videos for Global MarketsSlang, street noise and creators holding products across their faces are what break a dub, so occlusion handling is the biggest quality lever. Rewrite idioms instead of translating them.Read article →
- How to Localize E-Commerce Video Ads (Step-by-Step)Scale winners, not your whole library: sort creatives by ROAS and take the top three to five, screen markets on shipping and payment fit, set brand terms once, then translate the batch in one go.Read article →
- How Do Translated Video Ads Improve ROAS?The gain comes from the cost side: reusing creative that already converts, buying cheaper impressions in less-saturated auctions, and producing each variant for tokens, not a production budget.Read article →
- How Do You Find Markets with Lower CPMs?CPM tracks advertiser density, so start from the non-English orders you already get for free, compare per-country delivery estimates in Ads Manager, and check the Ad Library for thin categories.Read article →
- Best Languages to Translate Your Video Ads Into (2026)Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese and German return the most first: two large, cheap media markets plus one expensive, high-conversion one. Start with a creative that already wins.Read article →
- How Do Agencies Use AI Video Ad Translation?Localizing client creative in-house cuts turnaround from weeks to same-day and turns a subcontracted cost into billable margin. The €199/month Scale plan is the agency tier.Read article →
- How to Translate Instagram Reels with AIA five-step run returns your Reel in the creator's own cloned voice with lip-sync, posted natively per market. Keep animated subtitles clear of Instagram's own overlay.Read article →
- Can I Translate YouTube Videos with AI?Multi-language audio tracks keep views and comments on one video, while a channel per language buys localized titles and thumbnails. Long uploads burn far more tokens than a short ad.Read article →
- How to Translate Product Demo VideosDemos hinge on terminology rather than tone, so load product and feature names into the glossary first. Screen recordings need only voice cloning; a face on camera needs lip-sync too.Read article →
- How to Scale Video Ads to 30+ CountriesExpand in three phases: prove two or three markets, then translate more creatives into the ones that clear your ROAS bar. Five ads into six languages runs about 300 tokens with standard lip-sync.Read article →
Languages & Quality
8 articles- What Languages Are Supported for AI Video Translation?Coverage runs to 70+ languages layered with 148+ regional accents, and picking the right variant is what makes a translated ad read as local rather than imported.Read article →
- Which Languages Have the Best AI Translation Quality?Quality tracks training data. High-resource European and East Asian languages are ad-ready after a quick proofread, while smaller languages deserve a review pass before you spend.Read article →
- How to Translate Videos to Spanish with AIWith 22 variants the question is which Spanish: Mexican travels across Latin America, while Argentina and Spain need their own. Spanish also takes about 20 percent more words than English.Read article →
- How to Translate Videos to German with AIGerman pushes the verb to the end of the clause, so a literal hook lands after the viewer has scrolled. Restructure it, pick du or Sie, and lock compound product names in the glossary.Read article →
- How to Translate Videos to French with AIFrench runs roughly 15 to 20 percent longer than English, which is what pulls a dubbed ad out of sync. Choose tu or vous and hold it, and run Quebec separately from France.Read article →
- How to Translate Videos to Portuguese with AIBrazil carries the volume with over 200 million speakers and media costs well below Western Europe, but a European voice there reads as a mistake rather than as an accent.Read article →
- How to Translate Videos to Arabic with AISixteen country variants mean dialect comes first: Gulf for purchasing power, Egyptian when one ad has to cover the region. Right-to-left subtitles need checking line by line.Read article →
- How Accurate Is AI Video Translation?Good enough for paid ads in the major languages, not for legal or medical copy. Most errors start upstream in the transcript, so clean audio and a glossary fix more than anything else.Read article →
Privacy & Compliance
5 articles- GDPR and AI Video Translation: What You Need to KnowFaces and voices are personal data, and voice cloning is a new purpose your original consent probably never covered. Legal basis, retention and data location settle most of the rest.Read article →
- Is My Data Secure? AI Video Translation Privacy ExplainedYour videos travel over encrypted connections, enterprise API links keep them out of providers' public training models, and account data is deleted within 90 days of closure under EU GDPR rules.Read article →
- How Is My Voice Data Protected?Run by Slovenia-based 8logic on EU cloud hosting, GeckoDub keeps uploads for three months while you subscribe and one month after. Written consent for every cloned voice is your responsibility.Read article →
- Why Choose an EU-Based AI Video Translation Tool?Processing stays under GDPR as the primary regime rather than as an export condition, so there are no standard contractual clauses or transfer impact assessments to maintain.Read article →
- Commercial Use Rights for AI-Translated ContentOwning the render is the easy half. Four things must be true first: documented consent for every face and voice, licences valid in the new markets, cleared music, and platform AI disclosure.Read article →
Technical & Troubleshooting
5 articles- Can AI Translate Videos with Background Noise and Music?GeckoDub splits your audio into a voice track and a background track, re-voices only the speaker, then lays the new voice back over your original music and room tone.Read article →
- Tips for Getting the Best AI Lip-Sync QualityThe engine can only match what it sees clearly, so front lighting, a stable frame, 1080p, and a voice above the background mix matter most. GoSync 3.0 covers occlusion for you.Read article →
- How to Edit Your Translation After AI GenerationThe generated script sits beside the original, so you can rewrite lines, retime segments, and regenerate. Product names, CTAs, and prices are the lines worth checking every time.Read article →
- How Do You Use Script & Timing Control?German and Spanish translations run longer than English and Japanese shorter, and rushed delivery is what makes a dub sound synthetic. Shortening the line usually beats stretching the segment.Read article →
- How Does the Video Translation Workflow Work, From Upload to Publish?Five stages: prepare the master, save your glossary and Brand Kit once, upload and configure, proofread the script, then dub and publish. Only the proofreading step needs your judgment.Read article →
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