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# Video Translation

> Localize talking-head video into another language — translated audio in the speaker's own voice, synchronized mouth movement, and localized on-screen text.

<Info>
  Video generation and translation must be enabled for your organization. Contact your Gradial team to confirm availability.
</Info>

Localizing a video normally means moving one source file between four different tools: a dubbing service for the audio, a lip-sync tool for the picture, a design tool for the on-screen text, and an editor to reassemble it all. Every handoff is a place for timing to drift and branding to break.

Gradial can now run that whole chain inside a single task. Ask Grady to localize a talking-head video and it coordinates the voice, visual synchronization, on-screen text, and final assembly steps, then returns one playable video file.

Grady can also generate a new video from a written creative prompt.

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## What Grady can do

### Generate a video from a prompt

Describe the video you want in a written creative prompt and Grady can create it.

### Dub while preserving the speaker's voice

Existing speech can be translated into another language while retaining the original speaker's voice, delivery, and overall timing — so the localized version still sounds like the person who recorded it.

### Synchronize visible speech

Where a speaker is on camera, Grady can adjust their mouth movement to match the translated audio, or audio you supply yourself.

### Localize static on-screen text

Full-screen title cards, presentation slides, and clean static text panels can be translated while preserving their layout and branding.

<Note>
  On-screen text localization covers **static** text — title cards, slides, and clean text panels. Text that moves, animates, or sits over busy footage is not in scope.
</Note>

### Assemble and deliver one file

Translated audio, synchronized footage, and localized static text are combined into a single, broadly compatible video file. Completed videos are published directly in the task as downloadable artifacts, ready to play or hand off.

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## How delivery is verified

Video work runs long and depends on external processing, so Gradial checks the result before handing it back:

| Check                  | What it confirms                             |
| ---------------------- | -------------------------------------------- |
| **Readable picture**   | The video decodes and renders                |
| **Supported encoding** | The output uses a broadly compatible format  |
| **Expected duration**  | The finished video runs the length it should |
| **Non-silent audio**   | The audio track actually contains sound      |

Grady tracks long-running provider jobs through to completion, and safely reuses a matching submission when a task is retried — so a retry doesn't silently kick off duplicate work.

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## Related

* [Translation →](/docs/translation-and-localization/translation) — translating page content in your CMS
* [Multi-Site Manager →](/docs/translation-and-localization/msm) — managing localized site structures
* [Digital Asset Management →](/docs/asset-management/digital-asset-management) — managing the assets your campaigns use