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syncwords.com

✓ verifiedPaid

Pay-per-minute platform for live and recorded AI captioning, foreign subtitling, and real-time voice dubbing for broadcasters.

19K visits/mo

Miraa

✓ verifiedFree

Mobile app that turns media into AI bilingual subtitles for language learning, with shadowing and translation.

18K visits/mo

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

A2E AI

✓ verifiedFreemium

All-in-one AI video toolkit (image-to-video, face/head swap, lip-sync, avatars, voice clone) with a free tier and API for creators.

6.7M visits/mo148K saves

HeyGen

✓ verifiedFreemium

AI video platform for making avatar and spokesperson videos from text, with translation and voice cloning.

11M visits/mo3.7K saves

Pricing

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

No public pricing

Free: $0 (30 credits/day)

Pro: $14.90/mo (1,800 credits/mo)

No public pricing

Core features

✦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

✦AI transcription into subtitles
✦Bilingual subtitles
✦Echoing/shadowing practice
✦Interactive AI explanations
✦Real-time subtitle translation

✦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

✦Image-to-video generation
✦Face swap and head swap
✦Talking-photo lip-sync
✦AI avatars
✦Voice cloning
✦Access to many models (Kling, Wan, Veo, Seedance)
✦Developer API

✦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

Use cases

→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

→Learn languages from video and audio
→Practice pronunciation through shadowing
→Understand foreign media via translation
→Ask AI about words and phrases

→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

→Turn a photo into a talking video
→Create AI avatar videos
→Clone a voice for narration

→Create spokesperson marketing videos
→Localize videos into many languages
→Produce training and explainer videos
→Scale social video content

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