AI video, avatars and dubbing

Write a prompt (or start from a photo), generate short clips, then edit them together. How to make a video from text with AI and how to turn an image into a video with AI walk through both starts, and how to write AI video prompts has examples. For specific jobs, see making a product video from a photo and generating B-roll with AI. Before you plan a long piece, check how long AI-generated videos can be, whether an AI video generator with sound fits, and what a free AI video generator really includes.

Choose by clip length, whether you need native audio, and cost per second. The explainers: what Google Veo 3 is and Veo 3.1 pricing, what Kling AI is, what Seedance 2.0 is and what Hailuo AI is. Head to head: Veo 3.1 vs Kling and Runway Gen-4.5 vs Veo 3.1, with Runway pricing per plan. For other generators, see Sora alternatives.

Pick or create a presenter, give it a script and a voice, and the tool animates the face to match. Guides: how to make an AI spokesperson video, training videos with AI avatars, how to make a photo talk and how to lip sync a video to new audio. Comparing tools? Read HeyGen alternatives and Synthesia alternatives, or check whether HeyGen is free, Synthesia pricing per plan and D-ID alternatives. Not sure an avatar is the right call? AI avatar vs a real presenter compares cost and trust.

Write a short hook-led script, pair it with an avatar or product footage, and disclose AI use where the platform requires it. How to make UGC ads with AI covers the steps, costs and rules, and UGC ad script examples gives templates for 15 to 30 seconds. The presenter can come from an AI spokesperson video tool, and the product shots from a product video made from a photo.

Record your own voice, or generate one with text to speech or a clone trained on your samples. How to add a voiceover to a video covers phone, PC and AI options; text to speech voices for YouTube and getting the AI voice on TikTok cover two common uses. To use your own voice, see how to clone your own voice, and for other voice tools, ElevenLabs alternatives and ElevenLabs pricing, including what its dubbing costs per minute. Narrating an explainer? See explainer video voice over, AI or human.

AI dubbing transcribes the speech, translates it, voices it (often with a clone of the speaker) and mixes it back over the original background sound. Start with how to dub a video into another language, then how voice cloning works for dubbing and how to keep the background music when dubbing. Language guides: translate a YouTube video to Spanish, dub a video in Hindi, dub a video in Arabic and translate a video to English. For businesses, see localizing product videos; for budget, how much video dubbing costs; for other tools, Rask AI alternatives.

These comparisons list the main options in each category with prices from the vendors' own pages: Opus Clip alternatives and Klap alternatives for AI clipping, Submagic alternatives for AI captions, and Pictory alternatives for text-to-video, plus OpusClip pricing and Descript pricing plan by plan. Each one notes what the free plan includes, where watermarks or export limits apply, and which jobs a single tool covers so you don't pay for three. Every vendor's plans and prices are collected in the video tool pricing and alternatives hub.