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Maestra
✓ verifiedFreemium

Web platform for AI transcription, subtitling, translation and dubbing across 125+ languages, aimed at video creators and teams.

1.5M visits/mo
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Captionic
✓ verifiedFree

Free AI tool that auto-generates subtitles and embeds them into short videos, with multi-language support.

4.6K visits/mo
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Vidu
✓ verifiedFreemium

Fast AI video and image generator known for consistent multi-reference characters, anime motion, and free off-peak generation.

3.3M visits/mo50K saves
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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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Wan AI
✓ verifiedFreemium

Alibaba's Wan AI platform for generating video and images from text or reference images, part of the Tongyi generative AI family.

3.1M visits/mo49K saves
Pricing
Pay As You Go: $12 (60 credits)
Lite: $23/mo (180 min)
Basic: $39/mo (360 min)
Premium: $79/mo (900 min)

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Core features
  • Automatic transcription with speakers and timestamps
  • Subtitle generation, translation and editing
  • AI dubbing with voice cloning and lip sync
  • Real-time transcription, translation and captioning
  • Text-to-speech voiceovers in 125+ languages
  • Automatic AI subtitle generation
  • Embeds captions into the video
  • Multi-language support
  • Text-to-video, image-to-video, and reference-to-video generation
  • Multi-reference consistency using up to 7 images
  • First and last frame transition control
  • Anime art-to-video animation
  • Unlimited free generation in off-peak mode
  • AI sound effect and AI image generation tools
  • 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 generation
  • Image-to-video generation
  • Text-to-image and image editing
  • Open-source model releases for developers
  • Part of Alibaba's broader Tongyi AI ecosystem
Use cases
  • Subtitle and translate videos for global audiences
  • Transcribe meetings, interviews and media files
  • Dub audio and video into other languages
  • Caption live events and streams
  • Adding captions to short-form videos
  • Making video content accessible
  • Improving video engagement and SEO
  • Marketers producing branded video ads with consistent characters
  • Anime creators animating static art
  • Creators reusing saved characters/props across multiple videos
  • Users wanting fast, low-cost video generation via off-peak mode
  • Create spokesperson marketing videos
  • Localize videos into many languages
  • Produce training and explainer videos
  • Scale social video content
  • Content creators generating short AI video clips
  • Developers building on open-source Wan model weights
  • Marketers producing quick visual content
  • Researchers experimenting with video diffusion models
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