shang-zhu/violin

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Violin is an open-source video translation tool that transcribes speech, translates it into 33 languages, synthesizes a native-sounding voice-over, and remuxes it back into the video with synced SRT subtitles. It is available as a CLI, a FastAPI web app, and a Claude Code skill, with a pluggable stack of AI providers (Together, OpenAI, ElevenLabs).

Use cases

• translate a video into another language with dubbed voice-over
• generate synced subtitles for a video in a foreign language
• dub a lecture into Chinese or other languages
• add natural-sounding voice-over to videos using TTS
• transcribe speech from a video with ASR
• translate videos from the command line
• run a self-hosted video translation web app
• translate videos from within Claude Code

When to choose

• you need to dub videos into many languages with native-sounding voices
• you want a scriptable CLI or self-hosted API for video translation
• you want pluggable ASR/translation/TTS providers configured via YAML
• you want subtitles generated alongside the dubbed audio

When to avoid

• you need real-time live translation or streaming dubbing
• you need frame-perfect lip-sync or visual dubbing effects
• you want a fully free pipeline with no paid API keys for TTS or LLMs
• you need offline translation without cloud AI services

Facets

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speech-recognition tts video-processing nlp llm-inference cli api-framework speech-processing artificial-intelligence media python cli cross-platform video-translation dubbing subtitles asr agent-skills claude-code-skill elevenlabs together-ai whisper fastapi video natural-language-processing localization web-server

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