Arabic video translator

Arabic

Arabic is selected when you start from this page. Add any other language in the same job; each is priced on its own.

Lip sync, on or off

On, the speakers' mouths are rendered again to match the Arabic lines. Off, your picture stays exactly as it was and only the voice changes.

Proofread the Arabic script

Read the transcript beside its Arabic translation, line by line, and correct it before anything is voiced. Or upload your own Arabic .srt or .vtt and the dub says exactly those lines.

Arabic subtitles in the picture

When the dub comes back with its Arabic script, style the subtitles and export a copy with them burned in, set in Noto Sans Arabic unless you pick another font.

One Arabic, your choice of tone

Sonilo dubs one Arabic, not a separate voice per dialect. If your audience is in one country, read the translated script while you proofread and adjust words and phrasing toward what viewers there say. For a video meant for the whole region, a neutral, widely understood register is the safer choice.

Right to left, and names in Arabic script

Arabic is written from right to left, and that is how the translated script appears while you proofread. Product names, people and places written in Latin letters in the original are where translations slip most often. Check that each one is spelled the way your brand writes it in Arabic, or kept in Latin letters on purpose.

Respectful by default

Audiences across the Arab world respond to courteous, warm language, and religious and cultural references deserve care. Read jokes, slang and anything about food, dress or holidays once with that in mind, and rewrite a line rather than risk it landing badly.

Check prices and dates

A video for Saudi Arabia, the Emirates or Egypt should quote the currency viewers pay in, and some audiences also use the Hijri calendar alongside the Gregorian one. If your original mentions dollars, dates or offers, decide what the Arabic version says and make the script say it clearly.

Brands launching in the Gulf

Companies entering Saudi Arabia and the Emirates can turn the global campaign film into Arabic without a new shoot. Keep lip sync on so the spokesperson appears to speak Arabic, and proofread every claim before it is voiced.

Online stores and product videos

Shoppers in the region buy more confidently from product videos in Arabic. Translate the demo, check prices and delivery details, and download the Arabic cut for each marketplace and social account.

Education and training

Course creators and companies with teams in the Middle East and North Africa can offer lessons and training in Arabic. Proofread technical vocabulary, where formal Arabic and everyday usage often differ.

Creators and entertainment

Channels and series made in English, Turkish, Hindi or Korean can reach Arabic speaking viewers, who have a long habit of watching dubbed shows. Translate the episodes that already perform well first.

The soundtrack stays

Sonilo keeps the original background music and sound effects and replaces only the speech, with lip sync on or off.

The speaker’s own voice

Sonilo keeps the speaker’s own voice in the new language, so the translated speech sounds like the person in your video, not a stock voice. There is no voice to record or set up.

Lip sync, when you want it

On: mouths are re-rendered to match the new language. Off: your original picture stays untouched and only the voice is replaced.

You approve the words

The translation is a script you can read and correct first. A product name, a joke, a line of dialogue: fix it before it is spoken.

Your subtitles, spoken

Upload an .srt or .vtt for a language and the dub says exactly those lines, instead of a machine translation of them.

Music for the new cut

Sonilo also adds music to video. If a translated version needs its own soundtrack, add music to it in the same account.