Video ads for FranceGeckoDub dubs your existing ad into French in the speaker's own voice. Check the French script first, so the hook, tu or vous, and the call to action sound written in French.
No credit card · 2 free test translations, about 15 seconds each · reduced quality
FrenchThe same ad, opening in French. Switch to the English original. Sound on.
Club Fanatico runs 100+ videos in 5 languages, French among them. Read the story
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France's Toubon Law requires French in advertising. An English ad with French subtitles still asks people to read while someone talks in another language, and a French reshoot for every winning ad is slow.
1Upload your adPick French, then Basic or High Quality lip-sync (GoSync 3.0), or none. MP4, MOV and other common formats, up to 512 MB and 30 minutes.
2Check the French scriptOptional: read the French next to the original. On paid plans you can replace English words and settle tu or vous before it's voiced.
3Dub and downloadApprove the script, then download the French file and upload it to your ad account.
The free test dubs about 15 seconds, at reduced quality; paid plans dub the full video at full quality. You can read the test script, but edits apply on a paid plan. GeckoDub changes the speech, not the picture: English text burned into the video stays English, so replace it in your edit before the ad runs in France. GeckoDub doesn't publish to ad platforms.
No credit card · 2 free test translations, about 15 seconds each · reduced quality
Upload the clip you think will break it: fast talking, music underneath, a hand near the face. Your 2 free test translations can use HQ lip-sync.
Same clip, product held in front of the mouth. Left: other AI dubbing. Right: GeckoDub.
Real ads have products, mics and head turns in front of the mouth. That's where most lip-sync breaks. GeckoDub is built for these shots.
GeckoDub doesn’t create an AI avatar or a new video. It keeps your real footage, your products exactly as they are, and your real speaker with their own voice, cloned. Only the mouth is re-synced to the new language. That’s why it looks natural: it’s still your ad.
The dub uses the speaker's own cloned voice, so you need their permission to clone their voice and face.
Mark brand names and slogans "do not translate", or set a fixed French wording for phrases such as your delivery promise.
About the Brand KitAdd animated French subtitles in your brand fonts and colors.
Animated subtitlesTurn on Proofreading to check the transcript and the translation first: product names, slang, technical terms.
Script editing is part of the paid plans. In the free test you see the same review step, but your edits aren’t applied.
OriginalShop the new drop today.
Dubbed versionDécouvrez la nouvelle collection dès aujourd'hui."Discover the new collection, starting today."
The app has four French options. Each one sets the voice, and where the region's French differs, as in Quebec, the script follows it too. Check it before you scale.
For France, and the usual choice for French-speaking Africa. Plain "French" in older projects is this option.
A Belgian or Swiss voice. Numbers are the ones to watch: "septante" and "nonante" instead of France's "soixante-dix" and "quatre-vingt-dix", and the script can still use France's forms. If a price is spoken aloud, check it in the script editor on a paid plan.
A Quebec voice, and a script with Quebec words such as "courriel" and "fin de semaine". Test a clip with Quebec viewers before you scale it. Quebec's Charter of the French Language also requires French in commercial advertising there.
Look for spoken English slogans and calls to action ("shop now") in the script, and for English text on screen, which GeckoDub doesn't change. This page is not legal advice; check what your ad needs with your adviser.
French usually needs more words than English. The translation aims to fit each line to roughly the original speaking time, so on a paid plan trim long lines rather than letting the voice rush.
French puts a space before "?", "!", ":" and ";", and writes prices as 19,90 €. Check both in your subtitles and price lines.
Club Fanatico films its clips in Slovenian and runs 100+ videos in five languages, French among them, all from the same footage. Its Paris collection now speaks to fans in French, and the brand's disclaimer is checked in the translated script before any audio is made.
Read Club Fanatico's storyA 30-second ad into French uses about 4 tokens for translation only, about 10 with standard lip-sync and about 20 with HQ lip-sync.
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Drop in an ad that already works and hear it in French before you spend on a French campaign.
No credit card · 2 free test translations, about 15 seconds each · reduced quality
