How to Translate Videos to Arabic with AI

GeckoDub offers 16 Arabic voice variants — Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman and Yemen — so you dub for a specific market rather than into a generic "Arabic". That choice matters more here than in any other language.

Pick the dialect before anything else

Spoken Arabic varies enough between regions that the wrong choice reads as foreign:

• Gulf (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, Qatar) — the highest purchasing power and where most regional e-commerce spend sits.
• Egyptian — the largest single audience, and the dialect most widely understood across the region thanks to decades of Egyptian film and television.
• Levantine (Lebanon, Jordan, Syria) — warm and widely used in advertising.
• Maghrebi (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia) — distinct enough that a Gulf or Egyptian voice sounds clearly imported, and often mixed with French in everyday speech.

If one ad has to cover several countries, Egyptian travels furthest. For country-level campaigns, use the local variant every time.

Arabic is right-to-left, and that changes your subtitles

• Arabic script runs right to left, and letters change shape depending on their position in a word. Subtitles have to be rendered as Arabic rather than as reversed characters — always check the preview instead of trusting a copy-paste through another tool.
• Mixed content flips. Latin brand names, prices, URLs and digits inside an Arabic line follow bidirectional rules and can appear in an order you didn't intend. Review every line that contains them.
• Right-align Arabic subtitles and allow a little more line height; the script needs the vertical room.

Practical tips

• Keep brand names in Latin script unless you have an established Arabic wordmark, and lock the choice in your Brand Kit glossary.
• Arabic subtitles are usually shorter on screen than the English source, but the spoken line isn't always shorter — check timing before exporting lip-sync.
• Review the visuals, not just the words. Imagery, gestures and clothing that pass unremarked in Europe may need swapping for Gulf audiences.