Translate video into 55+ languages

Expand Your Video Content Globally

Your video content draws visitors to your website and social media channels. Offering translated versions ensures that viewers who speak different languages can readily consume your content and engage with your brand. The internet is worldwide, and language should never be a barrier to reaching your audience.

Using powerful language models developed with artificial intelligence, Sonix can automatically transcribe your video to text in less than five minutes. You can then use the translation feature to auto-translate subtitles into more than 55+ worldwide languages. These two features work together seamlessly—transcribe once, translate to as many languages as you need.

All transcribed and translated subtitles are time-stamped to perfectly sync with your video. Download translated subtitles for YouTube, post them on your website, or burn them directly into your video to ensure they display correctly on any platform.

How to Translate a Video: The Complete Workflow

Every video translation starts with an accurate transcript. Upload your video and Sonix transcribes the audio in the original language — a one-hour video is typically ready in five to six minutes. Review the transcript in the browser editor, fixing names and technical terms; every correction you make here improves the translation that follows.

Then open the Translation menu and pick your target languages. The translated subtitles inherit the original timestamps automatically, so nothing needs re-syncing. From there you can polish the translation in the side-by-side editor, export SRT or VTT files for YouTube and Vimeo, or burn the captions permanently into the video for platforms that don't support subtitle files.

Subtitles, Captions, or Dubbing: Which Should You Choose?

Translated subtitles are the fastest and most affordable path to a multilingual video: one video file serves every audience, and viewers keep the original speaker's voice and delivery. Burned-in captions trade flexibility for reliability — the text displays identically everywhere, which makes them ideal for social feeds that autoplay without sound.

Dubbing replaces the audio track entirely and can cost 10–20× more than subtitling once voice talent, studio time, and mixing are counted. For most training, marketing, and educational content, translated subtitles deliver nearly all of the audience benefit at a small fraction of the cost — and you can always dub your highest-performing videos later.

What Does Video Translation Cost?

With Sonix, translating a video costs the same as transcribing it: $10 per audio hour pay-as-you-go, or $5 per hour on a Premium subscription — translation to any of the 55+ supported languages is included. A ten-minute product video costs under $2 to transcribe and translate.

Traditional subtitle localization agencies typically charge per language and per runtime minute, so the same ten-minute video translated into five languages can run $250–$750. The economics are why teams standardize on AI translation for volume work and reserve human review for their flagship content.