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Arabic dubbing for online courses, lesson by lesson
For instructors and learning platforms with courses recorded in English and Arab learners asking for them in their language: dub the course one lesson at a time, fix the technical terms in the glossary, and export subtitle files in Arabic and English with every lesson for your platform's player.
- Every speaker detected and cast
- Review every line before you render
- Minutes, not days
Included in every paid plan, from $1/month (Basic, Starter, Creator, Professional, Business and Enterprise)from $4.99/month (Starter, Creator, Professional, Business and Enterprise). Not available on the Free plan.
See the workflowHear a real dub
- Speaker 1Female · Noura
- Speaker 2Male · Yusuf
Transcript
Original: English, voiced by Vocla voices · Dub: Saudi Arabic, auto-cast
Real output, published unedited: two speakers detected, cast and dubbed by Vocla with a voice-only track.
Hear it yourself
Lesson lines after adaptation
An instructor speaks loosely and repeats themselves. The Arabic keeps the meaning and drops the filler so the line stays inside its slot.
Opening a technical lesson
Modern Standard Arabicفي هذا الدرس نبني أول جدول محوري، ونتعلّم كيف نلخّص آلاف الصفوف في تقرير واحد.
What it says: Original: "Alright, so in this lesson we're going to build our very first pivot table and learn how to boil thousands of rows down into a single report."
Reassurance in a coding lesson
Egyptian Arabicمتقلقش لو الكود مشتغلش من أول مرة. ده طبيعي جدًا، وهنصلّحه سوا دلوقتي.
What it says: Original: "Don't worry if your code doesn't run the first time. That's completely normal, and we're going to debug it together right now."
Invitation to the exercise
Modern Standard Arabicأوقف الفيديو هنا وحاول حلّ التمرين بنفسك، ثم عُد لنراجع الإجابة معًا.
What it says: Original: "Go ahead and pause the video here, give the exercise a shot on your own, then come back and we'll go over the answer."
Every recording is real Vocla output in a public library voice, published unedited.
The problem
A course recorded in English, and learners asking for Arabic
You recorded forty lessons over several months and the course sells well in English.
Then the same message keeps arriving: is there an Arabic version? Re-recording is out of the question if you do not speak Arabic, and hiring an Arabic instructor means a new course, not a translation of yours.
Subtitles alone fall short in screen-recorded lessons. The learner needs their eyes to follow the cursor, the code and the menus. Read the lines and they miss the step; follow the step and they miss the explanation.
Terminology is the remaining knot. Half the technical words must stay in English, exactly as the learner will see them in the software, and the other half have an accepted Arabic equivalent. A general translator mixes the two, and one word shows up in three forms across three lessons.
Why Vocla
Why Vocla for dubbing a whole course
Every lesson is its own project
Short lessons fit inside your plan's length limit without cutting, and each one is reviewed, exported and updated on its own. One lesson that needs more work does not hold up the rest of the course.
A glossary for technical terms
List what stays in English, such as function names, menus and buttons, and what is always translated with the same equivalent. The script follows the list in translation and in every rewrite, so a word does not change between lesson three and lesson thirty.
One voice for the instructor
Choose a single library voice for every lesson, or clone the instructor's own voice with their consent from the Starter plan, so the learner hears one person from the start of the course to the end.
Subtitles in both languages with every lesson
The project exports SRT and VTT files in Arabic and in English, so in the platform's player a learner can listen in Arabic and read English, or the reverse. That helps anyone learning a term in both languages.
Update a lesson without dubbing it again
When you correct a sentence or change a term in a published lesson, only the lines you edited are re-voiced, and nothing else is charged to your credits.
How it works
A plan for dubbing a course from the first lesson to the last
Step 1
Start with a pilot module
Dub the welcome lesson and two lessons from module one, and show them to two Arab learners before going further. What you learn here about dialect and voice saves you editing forty lessons later.
Step 2
Prepare the term list
Pull the recurring terms from the course material and decide for each one: keep it in English or translate it, and with which word. Keep the list in a file and use that same list in the glossary of every lesson.
Step 3
Upload the lessons with the same voice and dialect
Put each lesson in its own project, choose the same dialect and the "One voice for everyone" casting mode with the voice you settled on. Name projects by lesson number as they appear on your platform.
Step 4
Review as a learner would
Check figures, abbreviations and button names, and make sure "click here" is said at the moment of the click on screen, not after it. Fix long lines from the problems panel.
Step 5
Export and upload to your platform
For each lesson download the MP4 with the Arabic track and the two subtitle files, and upload them to your course platform yourself. Slides and text shown inside the video stay in English as recorded.
Listen to the voices
Voices that fit this job
Public voices from the library whose style suits this work. Play a sample or open a voice for details.
Text to speech in the matching dialects
Cost
How do you estimate the cost of dubbing your course?
A course that is sold is commercial use, so it needs Starter or higher. The length of a single lesson decides which plan fits: the per-project limit in minutes is 10 on Starter, 30 on Professional and 60 on Business. A lecture longer than your plan's limit is cut in two before uploading.
Credits are charged on the characters spoken in each lesson plus a small processing fee per minute, so the cost of the course is the sum of its lessons. Dub one lesson first, look at the cost shown before rendering, then multiply by the number of lessons to see whether Professional's 80,000 credits a month are enough or the work should be spread over more than one month.
Compare plansThe numbers
- Not available on the Free plan; included in every paid plan.
- Longest video per project: 10 minutes on Starter, 30 on Professional and 60 on Business.
- Rendering uses credits for the characters voiced plus a small per-minute processing fee. The exact cost is shown before you render, and re-renders only charge for the lines you changed.
- Commercial usage rights and WAV export start with Starter: $4.99 a month with 5,000 credits.
Figures use the current plans and default credit rates. The exact cost is always shown in the app before you confirm.
Publishing this for a business?
The Free plan is for personal use and evaluation. Audio and video you publish for a brand, a client or a monetised channel need commercial usage rights, which start with the Starter plan.
Questions people ask
Can I dub an entire course into Arabic?
Yes, one lesson at a time. Each lesson goes into its own project within your plan's length limit, and you use the same dialect, voice and term list in every project so the course comes out consistent. There is no upload of a whole course in one go.
Do technical terms stay in English?
They do if you add them to the glossary as words to keep, and they are then spoken in English inside the Arabic sentence. Anything you prefer in Arabic gets a fixed equivalent in the same glossary. Review the first lesson closely to catch the terms you missed.
Does it translate slides and on-screen text?
No. Dubbing replaces the audio and adds subtitle files for the spoken words; slides, code and the software interface stay as they were filmed. That is acceptable in most technical courses, because the learner will be working in the same English interface.
Is course dubbing free?
No, dubbing is not available on the Free plan. Selling the course needs commercial usage rights, included from Starter at $4.99 a month and above. The actual cost follows the number of characters spoken and is shown to you before each lesson is rendered.
How do I upload the dubbed lessons to my course platform?
You download the files and upload them yourself; there is no direct connection to course platforms. Upload the Arabic MP4 as a new lesson or an alternative version, and attach the VTT or SRT file in the subtitles field if the platform's player supports it.
Can the instructor speak Arabic in their own voice?
Yes, through voice cloning on Starter and above, provided the voice is yours or the instructor has agreed in writing. The cloned version keeps their tone. Their mouth movements in the video do not change, because dubbing does not include lip-sync.
Go deeper
- The tool: DubbingDub video into Arabic dialects
- Plans and pricesWhat each plan includes, side by side
- Voice libraryPlay real samples by dialect
- How to Localize an Online Course into Arabic with AI: Glossary, Dubbing, Slides and SubtitlesRead the guide
- Choosing an Arabic Dubbing Dialect: Fusha, Egyptian, Gulf or Levantine?Read the guide
- Subtitles vs Dubbing for Arabic Viewers: How to Choose (and When to Do Both)Read the guide
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