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Dub a video or an audio file

POST https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/dubbing Content-Type: multipart/form-data

Dubs a provided audio or video file into given language.

Reference: https://elevenlabs.io/docs/api-reference/legacy/dubbing/create

  • https://api.elevenlabs.io (Production, default)
  • https://api.us.elevenlabs.io (Production US)
  • https://api.eu.residency.elevenlabs.io (Production EU)
  • https://api.in.residency.elevenlabs.io (Production India)
  • https://api.sg.residency.elevenlabs.io (Production Singapore)

This endpoint expects a multipart form with multiple files.

  • file (file, optional) — A list of file paths to audio recordings intended for voice cloning
  • csv_file (file, optional) — CSV file containing transcription/translation metadata
  • foreground_audio_file (file, optional) — For use only with csv input
  • background_audio_file (file, optional) — For use only with csv input
  • name (string, optional) — Name of the dubbing project.
  • source_url (string, optional) — URL of the source video/audio file.
  • source_lang (string, optional) — Source language. Expects a valid iso639-1 or iso639-3 language code.
  • target_lang (string, required) — The Target language to dub the content into. Expects a valid iso639-1 or iso639-3 language code.
  • target_accent (string, optional) — [Experimental] An accent to apply when selecting voices from the library and to use to inform translation of the dialect to prefer.
  • num_speakers (integer, optional) — Number of speakers to use for the dubbing. Set to 0 to automatically detect the number of speakers
  • watermark (boolean, optional) — Whether to apply watermark to the output video.
  • start_time (integer, optional) — Start time of the source video/audio file.
  • end_time (integer, optional) — End time of the source video/audio file.
  • highest_resolution (boolean, optional) — Whether to use the highest resolution available.
  • drop_background_audio (boolean, optional) — An advanced setting. Whether to drop background audio from the final dub. This can improve dub quality where it's known that audio shouldn't have a background track such as for speeches or monologues.
  • use_profanity_filter (boolean, optional) — [BETA] Whether transcripts should have profanities censored with the words '[censored]'
  • dubbing_studio (boolean, optional) — Whether to prepare dub for edits in dubbing studio or edits as a dubbing resource.
  • disable_voice_cloning (boolean, optional) — Instead of using a voice clone in dubbing, use a similar voice from the ElevenLabs Voice Library. Voices used from the library will contribute towards a workspace's custom voices limit, and if there aren't enough available slots the dub will fail. Using this feature requires the caller to have the 'add_voice_from_voice_library' permission on their workspace to access new voices.
  • mode (enum, optional) — The mode in which to run this Dubbing job. Defaults to automatic, use manual if specifically providing a CSV transcript to use. Note that manual mode is experimental and production use is strongly discouraged.
  • csv_fps (double, optional) — Frames per second to use when parsing a CSV file for dubbing. If not provided, FPS will be inferred from timecodes.

Successful Response

  • dubbing_id (string, required) — The ID of the dubbing project.
  • expected_duration_sec (double, required) — The expected duration of the dubbing project in seconds.

Validation Error

  • detail (list of ValidationError, optional)
  • loc (list of ValidationErrorLocItems, required)
  • msg (string, required)
  • type (string, required)

Request

JSON
{
  "background_audio_file": "<file: <file1>>",
  "csv_file": "<file: <file1>>",
  "file": "<file: <file1>>",
  "foreground_audio_file": "<file: <file1>>",
  "target_lang": "string"
}

Response

JSON
{
  "dubbing_id": "21m00Tcm4TlvDq8ikWAM",
  "expected_duration_sec": 127.5
}

SDK Code

TypeScript
import { ElevenLabsClient } from "@elevenlabs/elevenlabs-js";

async function main() {
    const client = new ElevenLabsClient();
    await client.dubbing.create({});
}
main();
Python
from elevenlabs import ElevenLabs

client = ElevenLabs()

client.dubbing.create(
    file="example_file",
    csv_file="example_csv_file",
    foreground_audio_file="example_foreground_audio_file",
    background_audio_file="example_background_audio_file",
)
Go
package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/dubbing"

	payload := strings.NewReader("-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"background_audio_file\"; filename=\"<file1>\"\r\nContent-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"csv_file\"; filename=\"<file1>\"\r\nContent-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"csv_fps\"\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"disable_voice_cloning\"\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"drop_background_audio\"\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"dubbing_studio\"\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"end_time\"\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"file\"; filename=\"<file1>\"\r\nContent-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"foreground_audio_file\"; filename=\"<file1>\"\r\nContent-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"highest_resolution\"\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"mode\"\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"name\"\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"num_speakers\"\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"source_lang\"\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"source_url\"\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"start_time\"\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"target_accent\"\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"target_lang\"\r\n\r\nstring\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"use_profanity_filter\"\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"watermark\"\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001--\r\n")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "multipart/form-data; boundary=---011000010111000001101001")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(res)
	fmt.Println(string(body))

}
Ruby
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/dubbing")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Content-Type"] = 'multipart/form-data; boundary=---011000010111000001101001'
request.body = "-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"background_audio_file\"; filename=\"<file1>\"\r\nContent-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"csv_file\"; filename=\"<file1>\"\r\nContent-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"csv_fps\"\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"disable_voice_cloning\"\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"drop_background_audio\"\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"dubbing_studio\"\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"end_time\"\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"file\"; filename=\"<file1>\"\r\nContent-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"foreground_audio_file\"; filename=\"<file1>\"\r\nContent-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"highest_resolution\"\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"mode\"\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"name\"\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"num_speakers\"\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"source_lang\"\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"source_url\"\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"start_time\"\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"target_accent\"\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"target_lang\"\r\n\r\nstring\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"use_profanity_filter\"\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"watermark\"\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001--\r\n"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
Java
import com.mashape.unirest.http.HttpResponse;
import com.mashape.unirest.http.Unirest;

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/dubbing")
  .header("Content-Type", "multipart/form-data; boundary=---011000010111000001101001")
  .body("-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"background_audio_file\"; filename=\"<file1>\"\r\nContent-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"csv_file\"; filename=\"<file1>\"\r\nContent-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"csv_fps\"\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"disable_voice_cloning\"\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"drop_background_audio\"\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"dubbing_studio\"\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"end_time\"\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"file\"; filename=\"<file1>\"\r\nContent-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"foreground_audio_file\"; filename=\"<file1>\"\r\nContent-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"highest_resolution\"\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"mode\"\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"name\"\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"num_speakers\"\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"source_lang\"\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"source_url\"\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"start_time\"\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"target_accent\"\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"target_lang\"\r\n\r\nstring\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"use_profanity_filter\"\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"watermark\"\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001--\r\n")
  .asString();
PHP
<?php
require_once('vendor/autoload.php');

$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();

$response = $client->request('POST', 'https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/dubbing', [
  'multipart' => [
    [
        'name' => 'background_audio_file',
        'filename' => '<file1>',
        'contents' => null
    ],
    [
        'name' => 'csv_file',
        'filename' => '<file1>',
        'contents' => null
    ],
    [
        'name' => 'file',
        'filename' => '<file1>',
        'contents' => null
    ],
    [
        'name' => 'foreground_audio_file',
        'filename' => '<file1>',
        'contents' => null
    ],
    [
        'name' => 'target_lang',
        'contents' => 'string'
    ]
  ]
]);

echo $response->getBody();
C#
using RestSharp;

var client = new RestClient("https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/dubbing");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.POST);
request.AddParameter("multipart/form-data; boundary=---011000010111000001101001", "-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"background_audio_file\"; filename=\"<file1>\"\r\nContent-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"csv_file\"; filename=\"<file1>\"\r\nContent-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"csv_fps\"\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"disable_voice_cloning\"\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"drop_background_audio\"\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"dubbing_studio\"\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"end_time\"\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"file\"; filename=\"<file1>\"\r\nContent-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"foreground_audio_file\"; filename=\"<file1>\"\r\nContent-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"highest_resolution\"\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"mode\"\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"name\"\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"num_speakers\"\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"source_lang\"\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"source_url\"\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"start_time\"\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"target_accent\"\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"target_lang\"\r\n\r\nstring\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"use_profanity_filter\"\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001\r\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"watermark\"\r\n\r\n\r\n-----011000010111000001101001--\r\n", ParameterType.RequestBody);
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);
Swift
import Foundation

let headers = ["Content-Type": "multipart/form-data; boundary=---011000010111000001101001"]
let parameters = [
  [
    "name": "background_audio_file",
    "fileName": "<file1>"
  ],
  [
    "name": "csv_file",
    "fileName": "<file1>"
  ],
  [
    "name": "csv_fps",
    "value": 
  ],
  [
    "name": "disable_voice_cloning",
    "value": 
  ],
  [
    "name": "drop_background_audio",
    "value": 
  ],
  [
    "name": "dubbing_studio",
    "value": 
  ],
  [
    "name": "end_time",
    "value": 
  ],
  [
    "name": "file",
    "fileName": "<file1>"
  ],
  [
    "name": "foreground_audio_file",
    "fileName": "<file1>"
  ],
  [
    "name": "highest_resolution",
    "value": 
  ],
  [
    "name": "mode",
    "value": 
  ],
  [
    "name": "name",
    "value": 
  ],
  [
    "name": "num_speakers",
    "value": 
  ],
  [
    "name": "source_lang",
    "value": 
  ],
  [
    "name": "source_url",
    "value": 
  ],
  [
    "name": "start_time",
    "value": 
  ],
  [
    "name": "target_accent",
    "value": 
  ],
  [
    "name": "target_lang",
    "value": "string"
  ],
  [
    "name": "use_profanity_filter",
    "value": 
  ],
  [
    "name": "watermark",
    "value": 
  ]
]

let boundary = "---011000010111000001101001"

var body = ""
var error: NSError? = nil
for param in parameters {
  let paramName = param["name"]!
  body += "--\(boundary)\r\n"
  body += "Content-Disposition:form-data; name=\"\(paramName)\""
  if let filename = param["fileName"] {
    let contentType = param["content-type"]!
    let fileContent = String(contentsOfFile: filename, encoding: String.Encoding.utf8)
    if (error != nil) {
      print(error as Any)
    }
    body += "; filename=\"\(filename)\"\r\n"
    body += "Content-Type: \(contentType)\r\n\r\n"
    body += fileContent
  } else if let paramValue = param["value"] {
    body += "\r\n\r\n\(paramValue)"
  }
}

let request = NSMutableURLRequest(url: NSURL(string: "https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/dubbing")! as URL,
                                        cachePolicy: .useProtocolCachePolicy,
                                    timeoutInterval: 10.0)
request.httpMethod = "POST"
request.allHTTPHeaderFields = headers
request.httpBody = postData as Data

let session = URLSession.shared
let dataTask = session.dataTask(with: request as URLRequest, completionHandler: { (data, response, error) -> Void in
  if (error != nil) {
    print(error as Any)
  } else {
    let httpResponse = response as? HTTPURLResponse
    print(httpResponse)
  }
})

dataTask.resume()
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