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HeyGen
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI video platform for making avatar and spokesperson videos from text, with translation and voice cloning.
11M visits/mo3.7K saves
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Pika 2.2
✓ verifiedFreemium
A generative video platform that turns text or images into short AI videos, with playful visual effects and a video-focused chat agent.
2.2M visits/mo
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SubtitleBee
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Web app that auto-transcribes, styles, and translates video subtitles into 120+ languages, with watermark-free exports on paid plans.
44K visits/mo1.8K saves
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syncwords.com
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Pay-per-minute platform for live and recorded AI captioning, foreign subtitling, and real-time voice dubbing for broadcasters.
19K visits/mo
Pricing
No public pricing
Basic: $0/month (80 monthly video credits, 480p only, watermark on Turbo/Pro credits)
Standard: $8/month billed yearly (700 monthly video credits, all resolutions)
Pro: $28/month billed yearly (2300 monthly video credits, faster generation)
Fancy: $76/month billed yearly (6000 monthly video credits, fastest generation)
Free: $0/mo (10 min auto subtitle video)
Starter: $19/mo (240 min/month, 3 translations per video)
Premium: $49/mo (1050 min/month, 10 translations per video)
Business: $129/mo (3600 min/month, 15 translations per video)
Human transcription (standard, 3-5 days): $1.95/minute of media
Human transcription (fast, same day): $3.45/minute of media
Automated captions (ASR + sync): $0.50/minute of media
Machine translation, first language: $1.00/minute of media
Machine translation, second language: $0.50/minute of media
Burned-in caption files: $3.00 minimum, $0.50/minute above minimum
Professional human translation: from $6.00/minute of media
Free trial available
Core features
- ✦Text-to-video with AI avatars
- ✦Custom and personal avatar creation
- ✦AI voice cloning
- ✦Multi-language video translation
- ✦Template library for common video types
- ✦Team and API options
- ✦Text-to-video and image-to-video generation
- ✦Pikaffects for stylized transformations of photos into video
- ✦Pika Agent conversational creative assistant
- ✦Pikascenes, Pikadditions and Pikaswaps for scene editing
- ✦Pika MCP to add creative tools to other AI agents
- ✦Commercial usage rights and watermark-free downloads on paid plans
- ✦Automatic subtitle generation from video/audio
- ✦Subtitle translation into 120+ languages
- ✦Font, color, and style customization
- ✦Text overlays and custom logo branding
- ✦Video cropping and resizing for social platforms
- ✦Export in SRT, ASS, VTT, TXT formats
- ✦Frame-accurate live AI captioning with broadcast-grade latency
- ✦Real-time subtitle translation into 40+ languages including non-Latin scripts
- ✦AI voice dubbing that preserves speaker emotion and tone
- ✦Delivery via SDI, HLS, SRT and widget-based embeds
- ✦Caption and subtitle editor with smart segmentation and error detection
- ✦Human transcription and translation options alongside automated ones
Use cases
- →Create spokesperson marketing videos
- →Localize videos into many languages
- →Produce training and explainer videos
- →Scale social video content
- →Producing short social-media-ready video clips from text ideas
- →Turning a single photo into a reality-bending video effect
- →Automating creative content workflows through an AI agent
- →Adding video generation capability to existing AI agent setups via MCP
- →Captioning social media clips for accessibility
- →Translating video content for international audiences
- →Branding videos with custom logos and overlay text
- →Repurposing long videos for different platform aspect ratios
- →Sports and news broadcasters localizing live feeds for global audiences
- →OTT platforms offering translated content tiers
- →Event organizers adding live multilingual captions to conferences and webinars
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