Portuguese video translator

Portuguese for Brazil or Portugal

Two regional versions, each voiced and priced as its own language. Portuguese (Brazil) is selected when you start from this page; add the other one in the same job if your viewers are there too.

Lip sync, on or off

On, the speakers' mouths are rendered again to match the Portuguese lines. Off, your picture stays exactly as it was and only the voice changes.

Proofread the Portuguese script

Read the transcript beside its Portuguese translation, line by line, and correct it before anything is voiced. Or upload your own Portuguese .srt or .vtt and the dub says exactly those lines.

Portuguese subtitles in the picture

When the dub comes back with its Portuguese script, style the subtitles and export a copy with them burned in, set in Noto Sans unless you pick another font.

Brazil or Portugal, or both

Brazilian and European Portuguese differ in accent, vocabulary and grammar, and viewers hear the difference at once. Brazilian Portuguese is preselected when you arrive from this page, because most Portuguese speakers are in Brazil. Add Portugal as a second language when you sell there too; each version is voiced and priced on its own.

Você or tu

Brazil mostly says você to a viewer; Portugal often uses tu with friends and more formal forms with strangers. Brands in each country have their habits. Decide how your video addresses the viewer and check that the translated script stays consistent from start to finish.

Words that change across the Atlantic

A bus is an ônibus in Brazil and an autocarro in Portugal; a phone is a celular in one and a telemóvel in the other. These differences are why Sonilo offers two Portuguese versions. Read each script while you proofread and make sure no word from the other side slipped in.

Portuguese runs longer than English

The same idea usually takes more syllables in Portuguese than in English, so a packed line can sound hurried. Trim filler and shorten long phrases while you proofread, especially in short ads where every second counts.

Creators reaching Brazil

Brazil is one of the biggest audiences on YouTube and short video apps. A channel that works in English or Spanish can open a Brazilian audience with the videos it already has, voiced in Brazilian Portuguese.

Online stores and product videos

Brazilian shoppers respond to product videos in Portuguese. Translate the demo, quote prices in reais where the offer applies to Brazil, and download the cut for each marketplace and social account.

Software, fintech and apps

Brazil has a large and fast moving app market. Onboarding videos, feature tours and support videos in Portuguese help users get started, and the Portugal version covers European customers from the same upload.

Training for teams in Brazil and Portugal

Companies with offices in São Paulo and Lisbon can give each team training in its own Portuguese, from one source video, with every technical term checked while you proofread.

The soundtrack stays

Sonilo keeps the original background music and sound effects and replaces only the speech, with lip sync on or off.

The speaker’s own voice

Sonilo keeps the speaker’s own voice in the new language, so the translated speech sounds like the person in your video, not a stock voice. There is no voice to record or set up.

Lip sync, when you want it

On: mouths are re-rendered to match the new language. Off: your original picture stays untouched and only the voice is replaced.

You approve the words

The translation is a script you can read and correct first. A product name, a joke, a line of dialogue: fix it before it is spoken.

Your subtitles, spoken

Upload an .srt or .vtt for a language and the dub says exactly those lines, instead of a machine translation of them.

Music for the new cut

Sonilo also adds music to video. If a translated version needs its own soundtrack, add music to it in the same account.