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Will minutes be charged a second time for edits in the editor?

Updated 12 October 2026

Contents
  1. How edits are counted
  2. When minutes are noticeably spent
  3. Example
In short

No. For translating a 10-minute video you pay 10 minutes once. If you then fix mistakes in the editor, the 10 minutes are not charged again.

How edits are counted #

Edits are counted separately and only for the text that is voiced again: 1 minute per 2,000 characters. Until 2,000 characters of edits have accumulated, re-voicing is free. Fixing a few phrases usually costs nothing.

Always free:

  • changing track volumes and timestamps;
  • deleting phrases;
  • reassigning a phrase to another speaker;
  • the first dubbing after "Check the text first, then dub": it was paid at launch.

The remainder of characters carries over between re-voicings: three edits of 500 characters charge nothing, the fourth completes the minute.

When minutes are noticeably spent #

If you change a speaker's voice, all of their phrases are voiced again, and all of that text counts by the same rule. In a 10-minute video that is 1–2 minutes per speaker.

The editor shows the charge in the window before re-voicing starts. If it says 0, re-voicing is free.

Example #

A 10-minute video, the translation cost 10 minutes. You fixed 12 phrases, 1,400 characters in total: re-voicing is free, the 1,400-character remainder is remembered. Then you changed the voice of a speaker with 3,000 characters of speech: 1,400 + 3,000 = 4,400 characters, 2 minutes are charged, a 400-character remainder carries over.

For all charges see What uses minutes.

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