Dub any video to Shona with AI — free to start
Upload a video and Vidwip's AI hands it back in ChiShona, in the original speaker's own voice, timed to your footage, with Shona subtitles if you want them. No reshoots, no voice actor, no studio.
Dub a video to Shona
See what an AI Shona 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 Shona in the app once you're signed in.
Who a Shona dub actually reaches
14M speakers across Zimbabwe, Harare, South African and UK diaspora is the headline. Whether they need the dub at all is the part that decides if it is worth doing.
Shona is the majority language of Zimbabwe, and a very large share of its speakers live and work in South Africa and the UK, sending money and consuming media across borders. In-language digital content is minimal, so almost any category is open.
Where they watchYouTube and WhatsApp, with a diaspora audience in South Africa and the UK that is often better connected than the domestic one.
What an AI Shona 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.
14 million speakers
Zimbabwe · Harare · South African and UK diaspora
Latin
Generated from the same script the voice reads, so captions match the audio.
About 15% longer
Saying the same thing in Shona takes roughly 15% more time, so a line-for-line Shona script would overrun your cut. Vidwip writes the Shona to be spoken to time and paces it back onto your footage.
Standard Shona
- Standard ShonaZimbabwe — broadcast, education, and government
How much does dubbing a video to Shona cost?
Shona 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 Shona 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 |
A Shona dub runs about 15% longer than your English source, but the bill follows your source video, not the dub — a 10-minute original is 10 billable minutes of Shona either way. Adding Zulu alongside it doubles that to 20.
Much of the audience is not in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe's economic situation has pushed millions of Shona speakers abroad, mostly to South Africa and the UK. That audience has better connectivity and more disposable income than the domestic one, and content assuming a Zimbabwean context reaches the smaller half of it.
How AI dubbing to Shona works
Vidwip transcribes your audio, translates the script into Shona, and voices it with an AI clone of the original speaker — paced to your cut, with Shona captions from the same script. The first two steps happen above; an account is only needed to render the ChiShona audio.
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Shona is already selected from this page. Add Zulu or Swahili too — each is billed separately, and the quote updates as you pick.
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Vidwip's AI transcribes, translates, and re-voices the video in ChiShona, in the original speaker's cloned voice, timed to your cut.
If you are dubbing to Shona, these usually come next
Chosen by market adjacency, not alphabetically — these are the targets a Shona dub is usually followed by. Each is billed separately.
Questions about dubbing video to Shona
The accent, the Latin captions, the sync, what AI dubbing to Shona costs, and how good it sounds.
Is English enough for Zimbabwe?
Does Shona cover all of Zimbabwe?
Is AI dubbing to Shona free?
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Dub your first video to Shona
Free to start, no credit card, no watermark — and Zimbabwe hearing it in ChiShona, in your own voice.