How to Dub a Video into Another Language with ElevenLabs Dubbing

The ElevenLabs Dubbing studio takes a video or audio file, transcribes it, translates the transcript, and generates a new voice track in the target language that tries to preserve the original speaker's character. This guide creates a single dub and exports the result.

What you need

• An ElevenLabs account on a plan that includes Dubbing minutes
• A source video or audio file with clear speech, or a public video URL
• The target language you want to dub into

Step 1: Open Dubbing

From the sidebar choose Dubbing and click Create a dub. You can upload a file or paste a URL from a supported video platform.

Step 2: Set source and target languages

Choose the spoken (source) language of the original. Setting it explicitly instead of auto-detect gives more reliable transcription. Then pick the target language you want to hear in the output.

Step 3: Set the number of speakers

Tell the tool how many distinct speakers are in the clip so it can keep each one on a separate voice. If you are unsure, use detection, but a known count gives cleaner results for interviews and dialogue.

Step 4: Generate and review

Click Create and wait for processing. Longer videos take longer and consume more of your dubbing minutes. When it finishes, play the result and listen for lines where the translation is off or the timing drifts.

Step 5: Edit lines if needed

If you created a Studio project, open it to see the transcript split into segments. You can edit the translated text of any segment and regenerate just that line, which is far cheaper than redoing the whole dub.

Step 6: Export

Use the export option to download the dubbed video or just the new audio track. Exporting audio only is handy when you want to mix the dub against the original background music in your editor.

Result: an English tutorial becomes a Spanish version that keeps the speaker's energy, ready to upload as a localized cut.