Quick Answer
To translate a video of yourself: check the transcript, pick a model by whether close ups need lip sync, run one language at a time, read the result, redo text in the picture, and label it. On Percify, ElevenLabs Dubbing keeps your voice at 72 credits a minute, so a 5 minute video is 360 credits, about $7.59 at the Creator rate; HeyGen Video Translate keeps your voice and resyncs your lips at 3 credits a second, so the same video is 900 credits, about $18.98. Each extra language is another run, and credits come back if a run fails.
Translate a video you appear in: seven steps, whether you need lip sync, and what 1, 5 and 10 minutes cost with each dubbing model. Checked 15 September 2026.
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This is the process for translating a video you appear in, from the recording you already have to a published version in another language, with the cost at each length. Prices were read on 15 September 2026. For what goes wrong and why, see the problems and their fixes; for whether to dub at all, dub, subtitle or re record.
The steps
- Start from clean audio. Background music and overlapping speakers make every dubbing model worse. If you have a version without music, use it.
- Decide whether close ups need lip sync. If your face fills the frame while you talk, choose a model that resyncs the lips; if the video is mostly slides, screen recording or wide shots, an audio dub is enough and costs less.
- Pick the model. On Percify, ElevenLabs Dubbing ↗ keeps your voice without lip sync, in 18 target languages. HeyGen Video Translate ↗ keeps your voice and resyncs your lips, in 178 languages.
- Run one language at a time. Each target language is a separate run and a separate charge, so start with the one market you are sure of.
- Read the translated result before you publish. Check names, prices and product terms, and listen to the ends of sentences, where a translation that runs long gets rushed.
- Redo text in the picture. Titles and captions burned into the video stay in the original language. Remake thumbnails and on screen text for the new market.
- Label it. Your cloned voice speaking another language is realistic AI speech, and TikTok requires a label ↗ on it.
What each length costs on Percify
| Video length | ElevenLabs Dubbing, voice only | HeyGen Video Translate, voice and lips |
|---|---|---|
| 1 minute | 72 credits, about $1.52 | 180 credits, about $3.80 |
| 5 minutes | 360 credits, about $7.59 | 900 credits, about $18.98 |
| 10 minutes | 720 credits, about $15.18 | 1,800 credits, about $37.96 |
Dollar figures use the Creator rate, $26 for 1,233 credits a month. A 10 minute video with lip sync needs more credits than Creator holds in a month, so it fits Scale, $65 for 3,000, or Ultra, $128 for 8,000. The minimums matter for short clips: ElevenLabs Dubbing bills at least a minute and HeyGen Video Translate at least 30 seconds. Prices for other tools are in how much AI dubbing costs.
After the first language
Once one language works, the rest is repetition: the same clean audio, the same checks, one run each. Keep a short list of the names and terms you had to correct, because the same ones will need checking in every language. The whole workflow, including when to translate a transcript first, is in the AI video dubbing guide; plans are on pricing.
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Frequently asked
Start from clean audio, decide whether close ups need lip sync, pick a model that keeps your voice, run one language at a time, read the result for names and terms, redo text burned into the picture, and label the translated version as AI speech.
On Percify, read on 15 September 2026: 360 credits with ElevenLabs Dubbing, which keeps your voice, about $7.59 at the Creator rate; or 900 credits with HeyGen Video Translate, which also resyncs your lips, about $18.98. Each additional language is another run.
Only where your face fills the frame while you talk. An audio dub leaves the mouth forming the original words, which shows on close ups but not on slides, screen recordings or wide shots. HeyGen Video Translate resyncs the lips; ElevenLabs Dubbing does not.
Each target language is a separate run and a separate charge on Percify, so three languages cost three times one. Start with the market you are surest of, fix its terms, then repeat.
On Percify the credits come back when a run fails, so a failed dub does not cost you the minutes.
