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Traditional dubbing costs between Rs 2 and 5 lakh per language. For a ten-episode web series across five Indian languages, that adds up to Rs 25 to 50 lakh. Most producers cannot justify the spend, and the content stays regional. With AI dubbing on Sarvam, the same job costs under Rs 2,500.
Traditional dubbing for a single language takes three to six weeks once you account for script translation, artist booking, studio recording, sync, and QA. A web series releasing weekly cannot wait that long for dubbed versions. Sarvam Studio delivers dubbed audio in minutes.
India needs content dubbed across more than eleven languages. The pool of quality dubbing artists for Odia, Assamese, Gujarati, and Punjabi is small. Even for Hindi and Tamil, the best artists are booked months in advance. AI dubbing removes the supply bottleneck.
Upload your video
Upload your video to Sarvam Studio. Saaras, Sarvam's STT model, automatically transcribes the original audio and extracts dialogue with accurate timestamps.
Translate the script
Sarvam Translation converts the transcribed dialogue into your target Indian language while preserving the timing cues needed for sync. You can review and edit the translated script before moving on.
Generate the dubbed audio
Bulbul V3, Sarvam's TTS model, generates natural voice audio for every line of dialogue. You can assign a different voice to each character and adjust emotion, pitch, and pace line by line.
Sync and export
Sarvam Studio aligns the generated audio to your original video timeline. Export the dubbed video, ready for OTT, YouTube, or theatrical release.
from sarvamai import SarvamAI client = SarvamAI(api_subscription_key="YOUR_KEY") # Tamil dialogue dubbing audio = client.text_to_speech.convert( text="Naan indha ooruku pudhusu. Enga school enga irukku nu sollungalen.", target_language_code="ta-IN", model="bulbul:v3", speaker="meera", pitch=-1, pace=1.0, loudness=1.5, enable_preprocessing=True ) with open("scene_12_tamil.wav", "wb") as f: f.write(audio.audios[0])
Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Malayalam, Marathi, Gujarati, Kannada, Punjabi, Odia, Assamese. All from one platform.
Upload a 90-minute film, get dubbed versions back the same day. Not the same month.
A 90-minute film: ~80,000 characters of dialogue. Under Rs 2,500 via API vs Rs 2-5 lakh traditional.
Match different voices to different characters. Adjust emotion, pitch, and pace per dialogue line.
Starting at ₹30 per 10K characters. View pricing
Higher is better
ElevenLabs Flash V2.5
ElevenLabs V3 Alpha
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Regional originals are the biggest growth driver for OTT in India. A Malayalam thriller needs Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu versions to reach a pan-India audience. AI dubbing makes it economically viable to dub every title in the catalogue, not just the top ten percent.
Tollywood produces over 300 films a year. Kollywood, Mollywood, and Sandalwood together produce more than 500. For every crossover hit that gets a big-budget Hindi dub, hundreds of strong films never leave their original market. AI dubbing changes the economics for mid-budget productions.
A successful Telugu educational channel wants Hindi and Tamil versions. Dubbing 200 existing videos through traditional studios is rarely affordable. Sarvam Studio lets creators dub the entire back catalogue at a fraction of the cost, and ship every new video in multiple Indian languages on the same day it goes live.
A product demo video needs to work in five Indian languages for pan-India sales teams. A CEO townhall needs regional language versions for every office. Corporate content is high-volume and low-emotion, which is exactly where AI dubbing already performs at a level most listeners cannot distinguish from human dubbing.
India's OTT market is one of the fastest growing in the world. The platforms competing for subscribers now treat regional content, dubbed into multiple Indian languages, as their biggest growth lever. Traditional dubbing economics create a bottleneck. Only the top-performing titles justify a Rs 2 to 5 lakh per-language spend, which means the long tail of content that actually keeps subscribers engaged stays undubbed. AI dubbing makes it economically rational to dub every title in the library.
The opportunity goes beyond entertainment. India's SWAYAM platform hosts thousands of video lectures that could reach far more students if they were available in regional Indian languages. Corporate training videos, product launches, and safety protocols all need multi-language versions. When dubbing costs drop from lakhs to hundreds of rupees, the question shifts from which content to dub to why anything is left undubbed.
The Sarvam Studio dubbing pipeline is built on three Sarvam APIs that also work as standalone products. Use them on their own or together.
Natural, expressive voices for video dubbing across every major Indian language.
Dub your first video in minutes
Dub your first video in minutes
