Pinch is an AI dubbing and translation tool for video, podcast, and audio content, with the core goal of translating into multiple languages while preserving the original speaker's voice, tone, and background audio.
Uses Pinch is mainly used to localize video and audio content into multiple languages. It is suitable for scenarios such as YouTube and social media videos, podcasts, online courses, marketing ads, corporate training, and films and documentaries. The official claim is that "as long as the content contains speech, Pinch can dub it."
Main capabilities
- Multilingual translation and dubbing: Supports translating video, podcasts, and audio into 10 languages, and the official statement says more languages are being added.
- Preserve the original voice: After dubbing, the original speaker's timbre, tone, and warmth are still preserved, so it still sounds like the person themselves rather than a replacement voice.
- Natural phrasing: The translation aims for how native speakers actually express themselves, rather than word-for-word literal translation.
- Preserve background audio: Music, ambient sound, and sound design can be clearly preserved.
- Dubbing studio: In the browser, you can preview speaker recognition results, reassign or merge speakers, edit the original transcript and translation line by line for comparison, generate the dub after confirming everything is correct, and see the estimated cost in advance.
- Developer API: Send a video or audio URL and target language, and Pinch completes transcription, natural-phrasing translation, original-voice synthesis, and background audio preservation, after which you can poll the completion status and download the result. Supports MP4, MOV, WebM, MP3, and WAV formats, and output URLs are valid for 48 hours.
- Human dubbing service: Users send a link and the desired language, Pinch obtains the media and dubs it, and every file is checked by a human before being returned. It is suitable for batches of old content or continuously published new content, with pricing quoted per project.
How to use Users can sign up to get $5 in free credit (about 10 minutes of dubbing), with no credit card required, complete dubbing in the browser, or integrate via API. The official statement says that after signing up, the first video can be dubbed in less than a minute.
Pricing Billed at $0.50 per minute, with no subscription and no watermark, and $5 in credit is given upon sign-up. The human dubbing service is quoted separately per project.
Limitations Official materials do not state the specific list of supported languages, the maximum duration per file, concurrency limits, or API call rate limits; this information is not currently provided. Output URLs are valid for 48 hours.
