Synthesia's AI Dubbing product empowers you to reach global audiences by adding AI-generated voiceovers in multiple languages to your videos. To ensure the best experience for everyone, we've created these helpful guidelines.
Understanding content ownership
As a creator, you're responsible for ensuring you have the necessary rights and permissions for any content you upload for dubbing. All dubbed videos should align with our Acceptable Use Policy.
How do we review your AI dubbing content?
We use automated review systems to provide faster turnaround times for your AI-dubbed content.
Enterprise users may receive additional support, appealing and reviewing their content.
You can learn more check out the Our Approach to Content Moderation at Synthesia article.
Content Guidelines for a smooth experience
To ensure your create the best content through Synthesia we encourage you to carefully review our Content Moderation Guidelines.
At Synthesia we always encourage you to create content that is respectful, inclusive and keeps yours and others privacy secure and protected.
With AI Dubbing you can take your own content to a new level and we want to do so safely and successfully. As such, there are certain types of content that are prohibited with this feature:
Violence, graphic material and illegal activities: content that promotes, depicts, or glorifies violence, abuse, or harm. This includes any content advocating, threatening, instructing about, or supporting violent crime, harm, weapons use, harassment of victims, or exposing sensitive information about law enforcement.
Violent Extremism: any content that coordinates harm, promotes criminal behavior, supports violence, glorifies terrorism, provides weapons instructions, recruits for extremist groups, displays extremist symbols, or incites harm against marginalized communities. This includes any content that promotes, sells, endorses, instructs about, or provides testimonials for illegal activities, criminal services, or organizations involved in such practices.
Identity based hate: any content targeting marginalized communities including the promotion of violence or harm, discrimination, prejudice, harassment, mockery, denial of discrimination, use of profane or hostile language, sharing private information, or use of harmful stereotypes and dehumanizing speech.
Political content: such as campaigns content or specific party promotion, endorsement or promotion of specific candidates, and/or legislative changes. This includes any content that supports, promotes, endorses or encourages the manipulation and undermining of the integrity of democratic processes. Including but not limited to: deceptive tactics, voter/census interference, misattributed and manipulated content and polarizing rhetorics.
Adult content: any content that features nudity, sexually explicit acts or any other type of adult content material including pornographic material and gratuitous depictions of genitalia or commonly covered body parts.
Child Safety: any content that exploits, sexualizes, or endangers minors, including the promotion of harmful behaviors, predatory content, misleading material targeting children, or content that reveals identifying information of minors.
Copyrighted material and/or any content where you do not have legal rights to upload or dub (including third-party video, audio, or images).
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: Can I dub videos created by others?
Q: Can I dub videos created by others?
A: Yes, but only if you have the appropriate rights and permissions to do so.
Q: Why wasn't my content approved?
Q: Why wasn't my content approved?
A: Most often, this happens when content violates our content moderation guidelines and prohibited content. If you are unsure why your content was rejected and what to do next, please check our Guide on Appeals and Moderation Decisions article.
Q: Can I edit my translations after they've been dubbed?
Q: Can I edit my translations after they've been dubbed?
A: Yes you can edit your translations but every edit will be checked to ensure that it does not change the original meaning. These editing capabilities are only available for Enterprise users at the moment.
Q: Do I need consent from people appearing in videos I want to dub?
Q: Do I need consent from people appearing in videos I want to dub?
A: Unlike avatar creation or voice cloning, AI Dubbing maintains the original speaker's intent and meaning without altering their appearance, so specific consent for dubbing is not required. However, you must ensure you have appropriate rights to the original video content.