Pinch

Pinch is an AI dubbing service that translates video and audio into other languages while keeping the original speaker's voice, tone and background audio. It supports ten languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, Korean and Chinese. The vendor says it is backed by Y Combinator. It is built for creators, publishers, podcasters and course producers who want to localize content, and for developers who want dubbing inside their own products. Users can work in a browser dubbing studio that previews speaker identification, lets them reassign or merge speakers, and allows line by line edits to the transcript and translation before the dub is generated, with the estimated cost shown up front. Developers can instead send a media URL to the API with a target language, poll for completion and download the result, with output links valid for 48 hours. MP4, MOV, WebM, MP3 and WAV are supported. Pinch also offers a managed service in which the team collects the videos, dubs them and has a person review each file, and a separate live translation API that handles speech over WebSocket in more than 50 languages. Pricing is pay as you go from a prepaid wallet, with no subscription, no watermarks and no monthly minimums. Dubbing costs $0.50 per minute of source media, or $1.00 per minute with lip sync, for files up to 60 minutes. Live translation costs $0.02 per minute. New accounts receive $5 in free credit with no card required, and top ups come in $10, $25, $50 or $100 amounts that never expire. Managed dubbing is quoted per project, and volume discounts are available on request.