# language-swap

Translates and dubs a video into another language while keeping each speaker's voice. One tool call returns an A/V-synced file.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 1200 installs · ★ 41
- Author: Pika-Labs
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/Pika-Labs/Pika-Plugins/tree/HEAD/skills/language-swap/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-07-20
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/language-swap

## What it does

The skill takes a video URL and a target language, then runs a pipeline: dub, lipsync, burn captions. The dubbing worker does the heavy lifting in a single call — it transcribes, translates, preserves each speaker's voice server-side and returns a video whose audio and picture line up. No manual transcribe/clone/TTS/replace chain to babysit.

Lipsync is ON by default and re-matches the speaker's mouth to the translated audio. It only applies to videos up to 5 minutes: `edit_lipsync` hard-caps at 300 seconds, so longer sources skip it automatically. The dub itself has no length limit. Pass `--no-lipsync` when there is no on-camera face or to avoid the cost of roughly $4/min on the sync-2-pro tier.

Background music and SFX stay by default — the translated voice sits over the original bed. With `--no-bgm` the music is dropped and only translated speech remains. Target-language captions are burned by default; `--bilingual-subtitles` puts the translated row on top and the original below. For a video that needs different languages on different parts, build a segment plan: extract the audio with `extract_audio_from_video`, run `transcribe_audio` with timestamps, show the user the breakdown, then assemble `segments[]` with ordered, non-overlapping ranges in seconds. Any range you leave out keeps the original audio.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Pika-Labs/Pika-Plugins --skill language-swap -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/language-swap/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/language-swap/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Pika-Labs/Pika-Plugins --skill language-swap -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/language-swap/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Pika-Labs/Pika-Plugins --skill language-swap -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/language-swap/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install Pika-Labs/Pika-Plugins language-swap
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/language-swap/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Pika-Labs/Pika-Plugins --skill language-swap -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/Pika-Labs/Pika-Plugins --path skills/language-swap
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/language-swap/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Pika-Labs/Pika-Plugins --skill language-swap -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/Pika-Labs/Pika-Plugins/tree/HEAD/skills/language-swap/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- dub a video into Spanish and keep the speaker's voice
- get a lipsynced dub from one tool call
- burn bilingual subtitles onto a dubbed video
- use different languages on different parts of one clip
- keep the original audio on untranslated sections

## Example prompts
- translate this video into Japanese
- dub this clip in French with bilingual subtitles
- dub the first half in Spanish and the second half in German

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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````text
---
name: language-swap
description: >
  Use when the user asks for language swap or a task matching the examples below.
  Translate and dub a video into another language. One worker call preserves each speaker's
  voice, translates the speech, and returns a fully A/V-synced video. Lipsync ON by default.
  Use when the user says "translate this video", "dub this in <language>",
  "make this Spanish/French/Japanese", "translate the audio", or asks for
  bilingual subtitles on a dubbed/language-swap output.
  NOT for: subtitles/captions only (use add_captions or video-captions), transcription only
  (use transcribe_audio directly), or translating on-screen text overlays.
argument-hint: "<video-url> --to <language> [--no-lipsync] [--no-bgm] [--bilingual-subtitles]"
required-capabilities:
  - upload_asset
  - dub_video
  - task_status
  - extract_audio_from_video
  - transcribe_audio
  - edit_lipsync
  - add_captions
---


# /pika:language-swap

> Tools below are **Pika MCP** tools, named bare — call each under whatever prefix your session exposes for the Pika MCP.

Translate and dub a video into another language while preserving the original speaker's voice. Pipeline: dub (one worker call) → lipsync (default ON) → burn target-language captions or bilingual captions.

The dubbing worker does the heavy lifting in a single call: it transcribes, translates, preserves each speaker's voice server-side (no separate clone step), and returns a fully A/V-synced video — so there is no manual transcribe/clone/TTS/replace chain to manage and no duration-drift handling to do by hand.

## Segmented / multi-language dub (per-range languages)

Use this when the user wants **different languages on different parts** of one video (e.g. first half Spanish, second half Japanese), or wants to **translate only some sections** and keep the rest in the original voice. Both are the same thing: a timeline of segments, each tagged with a language; any uncovered range keeps the original audio.

`dub_video` takes a `segments` plan **instead of** `target_language` (pass exactly one — they are mutually exclusive):

```
dub_video(source_video_url=<video_url>, segments=[
  {start_s: 0,  end_s: 30, target_language: "es"},
  {start_s: 30, end_s: 60, target_language: "ja"}
])
```
````
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