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Dub video to Xhosa

Dub any video to Xhosa with AI — free to start

Upload a video and Vidwip's AI hands it back in isiXhosa, in the original speaker's own voice, timed to your footage, with Xhosa subtitles if you want them. No reshoots, no voice actor, no studio.

Dub a video to Xhosa

See what an AI Xhosa 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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Target language

XhosaisiXhosa

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No language is behind a paid plan. See all 90+.

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What it costs

Your 100 free credits cover 10 seconds of dubbing into Xhosa on Advanced.Add a video above and this becomes the exact figure for your file. Dub this video to Xhosa

Free account, no credit card. You'll upload the video and pick Xhosa in the app once you're signed in.

Why this language

Who a Xhosa dub actually reaches

19M speakers across South Africa, Eastern Cape, Cape Town is the headline. Whether they need the dub at all is the part that decides if it is worth doing.

Xhosa is the second-largest first language in South Africa, concentrated in the Eastern Cape and strongly present in Cape Town. It has high cultural prominence and is one of the languages South African public bodies and broadcasters are expected to serve.

Where they watchYouTube and Facebook, with public broadcasting in isiXhosa maintaining a steady in-language audience.

The specifics

What an AI Xhosa 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.

Who it reaches

19 million speakers

South Africa · Eastern Cape · Cape Town

Captions

Latin

Generated from the same script the voice reads, so captions match the audio.

Against your cut

About 12% longer

Saying the same thing in Xhosa takes roughly 12% more time, so a line-for-line Xhosa script would overrun your cut. Vidwip writes the Xhosa to be spoken to time and paces it back onto your footage.

Accent

Standard isiXhosa

  • Standard isiXhosaSouth Africa — broadcast, education, and government
The actual numbers

How much does dubbing a video to Xhosa cost?

Xhosa 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 Xhosa dubbing each plan includes, free plan first.

Rate$6.00 per minuteAdvancedper minute, per language
Minutes of AI Xhosa dubbing in each plan — once on Free, every month on paid plans.
PlanPriceDubbing time
Freeno card$010 seconds
Starter$25/mo4 min 10 s
Pro$99/mo16 min 40 s

A Xhosa dub runs about 12% longer than your English source, but the bill follows your source video, not the dub — a 10-minute original is 10 billable minutes of Xhosa either way. Adding Zulu alongside it doubles that to 20.

The thing to get right

Xhosa has more clicks than Zulu, and they are harder

Xhosa uses a larger set of click consonants than Zulu, including aspirated and voiced variants that are genuinely difficult to synthesise convincingly. It is the South African language where voice quality matters most and where a poor dub is most obvious to a native listener.

How it works

How AI dubbing to Xhosa works

Vidwip transcribes your audio, translates the script into Xhosa, and voices it with an AI clone of the original speaker — paced to your cut, with Xhosa captions from the same script. The first two steps happen above; an account is only needed to render the isiXhosa audio.

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Add your video

MP4, MOV or WebM, up to 2 GB. Read in your browser — nothing uploads yet.

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Confirm Xhosa

Xhosa is already selected from this page. Add Zulu or Afrikaans too — each is billed separately, and the quote updates as you pick.

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Sign up and dub

Vidwip's AI transcribes, translates, and re-voices the video in isiXhosa, in the original speaker's cloned voice, timed to your cut.

Next languages

If you are dubbing to Xhosa, these usually come next

Chosen by market adjacency, not alphabetically — these are the targets a Xhosa dub is usually followed by. Each is billed separately.

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FAQ

Questions about dubbing video to Xhosa

The accent, the Latin captions, the sync, what AI dubbing to Xhosa costs, and how good it sounds.

Is Xhosa the same as Zulu?
They are closely related Nguni languages with substantial mutual intelligibility, but they are distinct languages with different vocabulary, different click inventories, and separate identities. Each has its own provincial base and its own broadcast presence in South Africa.
Which South African languages should I prioritise?
English for business reach, Zulu for the largest first-language audience, Xhosa for the Eastern Cape and Cape Town, Afrikaans for the Western Cape and Namibia. That set of four covers most of the country; South Africa has eleven official languages, so full coverage is a bigger project.
Is AI dubbing to Xhosa free?
Free to start. Xhosa dubs on the Advanced model, the dearer of the two, so a new account's 100 one-time credits cover 10 seconds of it, with no credit card and no watermark. Need more? Starter, at $25 a month, covers about 4 minutes of Xhosa each month, and each extra language is billed on its own.
Does the AI Xhosa dub keep my own voice?
Yes. Vidwip's AI clones each speaker from your original audio and reads the Xhosa script in that voice, on every plan including the free one, so the Xhosa version still sounds like the person who recorded it. There is no stock voice or accent setting to choose: each speaker's clone is the voice.
Will the AI Xhosa dub stay in sync with my video?
A Xhosa dub runs about 12% longer than your English source, and the AI paces the Xhosa audio back onto your footage rather than letting it drift. The picture is never re-edited — only the audio changes — and if you add Xhosa subtitles, they come from the same translated script the voice reads, so captions and audio match.
How good is AI dubbing into Xhosa?
Good enough to publish. Vidwip's AI dubs from your original audio rather than a transcript, so the pauses and emphasis of the take survive into isiXhosa, and the voice sounds like a speaker, not a reader. Check the script, though — xhosa has more clicks than Zulu, and they are harder — because a fluent voice reads a wrong line just as fluently.

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