Can Your AI Influencer Speak Another Language?
Yes, and without a translate button anywhere in it. Here is how to make an AI influencer video in Spanish, French, Portuguese or German in HexUGC, and the two places it needs watching.
HexUGC has no language dropdown and no translate button, and it still produces video in other languages. The route is simpler than a localisation feature: you write the script in the language you want, you pick a voice that speaks it, and the rest of the pipeline is indifferent to which language it is handling. The voiceover runs on ElevenLabs' multilingual model, the lip-sync is driven by the audio rather than by the text, and the export is the same vertical 9:16 MP4 with the same character's face on it.
The workflow, in the order you do it
- Pick the voice first. The voice picker in the create wizard lists every available voice with search, accent and gender filters, and an audio preview on each row. Play the preview in the accent you are targeting before you write a word.
- Put the script in that language. There is no language switch on the script step, so there are two reliable routes. Paste a script you have already written, or write your freeform direction in the target language so the draft comes back in it. The draft is editable either way, and nothing is generated until you commit it.
- Generate as normal. The audio is synthesised, your chosen still is lip-synced to it, the scenes are stitched, and you download the MP4.
Nothing else changes. The avatar board and the still library behave exactly as they do in English.
The voice choice carries the whole thing
The voice is stamped on the avatar when you create it and can be changed per video in the wizard, so one character can front an English account and a Spanish one without being rebuilt. That makes the picker the place to spend your time.
Two things worth knowing. An accent label is a label, not a fluency guarantee, so listen to the preview in the language you actually intend to post in rather than trusting the tag. And a voice that sounds natural reading English marketing copy can sound stiff reading conversational Spanish, because the two jobs are not the same job. Audition three, then commit.
Length is estimated at an English pace, so leave headroom
The billable duration of a voiced scene comes from the script's word count at roughly 2.5 words a second, and the audio is hard-trimmed to that estimate so a generation can never run longer than you paid for. That pace is calibrated on English. A language that carries the same meaning in fewer but longer words can run past the cap and get cut off mid-sentence.
The fix is cheap. Keep your first script a little shorter than feels right, generate one video and calibrate from what comes back.
Check the captions before you switch them on
Captions are a checkbox in the wizard and they are off by default. When on, they are burned in at three words a cue, in a Latin font. Latin-alphabet languages, accents and diacritics included, are fine. For a script outside the Latin alphabet we cannot promise the glyphs render, so leave the captions off and add them in your own editor, which is what a clean render is there for.
What this does not do
It does not translate. It will not take your finished English video and hand you the Spanish one, and there is no dubbing or lip re-sync of existing footage. One video is written in one language from the start. If your real job is a library of videos existing in eight languages, that is a localisation platform's job and not ours, and the Synthesia comparison is the honest version of that answer.
There is no one-click set of language variants either. Videos are generated one at a time, with multi-variant generation on our roadmap rather than shipped. There is no publishing or scheduling to TikTok, Instagram or YouTube, so you download the MP4 and post it yourself. Your own voice cannot be cloned; you choose from the voice library.
We have also not measured lip-sync quality language by language, so treat the first video as a test rather than as a template. A 10 second voiced video is 28 credits, the opening pack is $5, and Starter at $15 a month works out at roughly 10 videos, Creator at $30 at roughly 21. There is no free trial and no free credits, but a generation that fails puts its credits back.
Where to start
Generate one short video in your language, watch it with the sound on, and check two things: that the audio was not trimmed mid-sentence, and that the voice sounds like a person from where your audience is. Once those hold, everything left is the ordinary work of running the account, which reads the same in every language: how to create an AI influencer and keeping one face across months of posts.