Dub any video to Afrikaans with AI — free to start
Upload a video and Vidwip's AI hands it back in Afrikaans, in the original speaker's own voice, timed to your footage, with Afrikaans subtitles if you want them. No reshoots, no voice actor, no studio.
Dub a video to Afrikaans
See what an AI Afrikaans dub costs before you make an account. Your file is read in this browser for its length and is never uploaded from here.
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What it costs
Free account, no credit card. You'll upload the video and pick Afrikaans in the app once you're signed in.
Who an Afrikaans dub actually reaches
17M speakers across South Africa, Namibia, Western Cape is the headline. Whether they need the dub at all is the part that decides if it is worth doing.
Afrikaans has around 17 million speakers across South Africa and Namibia, including a large majority-Coloured speaker base in the Western Cape, and it sustains a genuinely healthy domestic media industry — music, film, and streaming — that is disproportionate to the population.
Where they watchYouTube and Facebook, with a well-established Afrikaans-language entertainment sector maintaining strong in-language viewing habits.
What an AI Afrikaans dub gives you
Reach, Latin captions, timing against your cut, and the accents your audience speaks — the four things a generic 90-languages claim never tells you.
17 million speakers
South Africa · Namibia · Western Cape · UK and Australian diaspora
Latin
Generated from the same script the voice reads, so captions match the audio.
About 10% longer
Saying the same thing in Afrikaans takes roughly 10% more time, so a line-for-line Afrikaans script would overrun your cut. Vidwip writes the Afrikaans to be spoken to time and paces it back onto your footage.
Standard Afrikaans
- Standard AfrikaansSouth Africa and Namibia — broadcast and education
How much does dubbing a video to Afrikaans cost?
Afrikaans dubs on the Advanced model, the one that covers all 94 languages: $6.00 per minute of source video, per language. Here is how much Afrikaans dubbing each plan includes, free plan first.
| Plan | Price | Dubbing time |
|---|---|---|
| Freeno card | $0 | 10 seconds |
| Starter | $25/mo | 4 min 10 s |
| Pro | $99/mo | 16 min 40 s |
An Afrikaans dub runs about 10% longer than your English source, but the bill follows your source video, not the dub — a 10-minute original is 10 billable minutes of Afrikaans either way. Adding Dutch alongside it doubles that to 20.
Afrikaans is not only a first-language-white language
A majority of Afrikaans speakers in South Africa are not white, and the Western Cape variety differs from the standard used in broadcast. Content that assumes one demographic behind the language misreads most of its own audience.
How AI dubbing to Afrikaans works
Vidwip transcribes your audio, translates the script into Afrikaans, and voices it with an AI clone of the original speaker — paced to your cut, with Afrikaans captions from the same script. The first two steps happen above; an account is only needed to render the Afrikaans audio.
Add your video
MP4, MOV or WebM, up to 2 GB. Read in your browser — nothing uploads yet.
Confirm Afrikaans
Afrikaans is already selected from this page. Add Dutch or Zulu too — each is billed separately, and the quote updates as you pick.
Sign up and dub
Vidwip's AI transcribes, translates, and re-voices the video in Afrikaans, in the original speaker's cloned voice, timed to your cut.
If you are dubbing to Afrikaans, these usually come next
Chosen by market adjacency, not alphabetically — these are the targets an Afrikaans dub is usually followed by. Each is billed separately.
Questions about dubbing video to Afrikaans
The accent, the Latin captions, the sync, what AI dubbing to Afrikaans costs, and how good it sounds.
Is Afrikaans close enough to Dutch to share a dub?
Which South African languages should I dub besides Afrikaans?
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Dub your first video to Afrikaans
Free to start, no credit card, no watermark — and South Africa hearing it in Afrikaans, in your own voice.