Dubbing time depends on your video's length, the features you turn on, and how busy the system is. There's no fixed time and no countdown in the app — but you can always watch live progress, and the rough guidelines below help you tell normal from stuck.
Rough guidelines (not a guarantee)
A dub goes through two time-intensive phases:
Dubbing (transcription → translation → voice) — usually about 2× your video length. A 10-minute video takes roughly 20 minutes.
Lip Sync (optional, runs after dubbing) — usually about 4× your video length. A 10-minute video takes roughly 40 minutes on top of the dubbing time.
These are rough guidelines, not promises. Actual time depends on the video length, how many target languages you picked, the number of speakers, and current demand. Use them as a sanity check, not a deadline — and watch the live status instead of the clock.
The phases your dub goes through
Open any dub and you'll see its current phase in the status panel. Most dubs move through these steps in order:
Downloading — we fetch your file or import it from your URL.
Processing video — the video is prepared and the spoken audio is separated from the background.
Transcribing — we transcribe the source language.
Translating — we translate into each target language.
Voice cloning — used when you've turned on cloning of the original speaker(s).
Speech syncing — we generate the dubbed audio for every segment.
Rendering — the final video is assembled.
Lip Sync — runs as a separate step after rendering, only when Lip Sync is enabled.
What makes a dub slower
Long videos. A 30-minute video has many more segments than a 5-minute one.
Lip Sync. It runs after the audio is finished and adds significant extra time (≈ 4× video length). Turn it off when you don't need it.
Multiple speakers. Each unique voice is cloned and rendered separately.
Many target languages. Every language is processed independently.
High demand. At peak times your dub may queue behind others.
Track progress live
The status panel updates as your dub moves through each phase. You can leave the page and come back later — nothing stops if you close the tab.
When it's actually a problem
Don't judge by a stopwatch — judge by the signal on the dub tile. A dub is only really stuck if you see one of these:
a red Input Error / Error badge,
"Processing… takes longer than expected" (or "Updating… takes longer than expected" after edits), or
"Lip Sync failed" on the Lip-Sync card.
See Processing is taking longer than expected and Video is stuck for what each signal means and what to do.