dsh-audio-dub

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DSH dubbing plugin — dub a video or audio file into another language while keeping the original speaker's voice (AI voice cloning). Turn a Chinese video into an English one in a single tool call, or the other way round.

You:   dub ./demo.mp4 into English
Agent: [dub_media] Job 8f3a… — completed
       zh → en · duration 154s · cost $1.28
       Download: https://…/dubbed.mp4

Motivation

Agents handle text translation well, but "make an English version of this video" falls outside the toolchain: either you upload it to a web app by hand, or you wire up ffmpeg + ASR + translation + TTS + alignment yourself.

This plugin collapses that into one tool call: give it a local path or a direct media URL, get back a finished dub. Transcription, translation, voice cloning and timing all happen server-side; the agent just waits for the result.

Install

Install into your profile (headless here; web / tui work the same way):

dsh plugin --profile headless add github:pinch-eng/dsh-audio-dub

It registers itself on install — no cordis.yml edit needed. Then set an API key (create one at portal.startpinch.com; it looks like pk_…):

export PINCH_API_KEY=pk_xxx

Try it:

dsh --profile headless "dub ./demo.mp4 into English"

Config

Field	Type	Default	Description
apiKey	string	process.env.PINCH_API_KEY	API key. Prefer the environment variable over writing it into cordis.yml
baseUrl	string	https://portal.startpinch.com	Override for self-hosted or staging
pollIntervalMs	integer	15000	Status poll interval while waiting; floor 5000

Tools

dub_media

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
source	string	✅	Local file path (./talk.mp4) or a direct link to a media file. Page URLs (YouTube, Bilibili, social posts) are not media files and are rejected
target_lang	string	✅	Language to dub into — see the table below
source_lang	string		Spoken language of the source. Default auto
reduce_accent	boolean		More native-sounding target pronunciation, at a small cost to voice similarity. Leave unset for the service default
wait	boolean		Wait for the result. Default true
wait_seconds	integer		Wait budget; default 600, max 1800. Rule of thumb: allow 1–2× the media duration

Local files are streamed to a presigned upload target before the job is submitted — a 2 GB mp4 never lands in memory.

Running out of wait budget is not a failure: the job continues server-side, and the returned job_id can be handed to dub_status.

dub_status

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
job_id	string	✅	Job id returned by dub_media
wait	boolean		Wait for completion instead of returning the current status. Default false
wait_seconds	integer		As above

dub_languages

No parameters. Local lookup — no network call, no cost.

Supported languages

Code	Language	Code	Language
zh	Chinese	pt	Portuguese
en	English	ru	Russian
es	Spanish	ja	Japanese
fr	French	ko	Korean
de	German	it	Italian

The source language may additionally be auto.

Pricing and limits

• $0.50 per minute of media
• Max 60 minutes and 2 GB per file
• Download links are valid for 48 hours; call dub_status again for a fresh one

On an empty balance the tool returns insufficient_balance together with the top-up URL, so the agent can tell you exactly what to do.

Security model

• The API key is sent as an Authorization header to baseUrl and never appears in a tool result — but tool arguments are written to the session log, so don't paste keys into prompts. A key reaches dubbing endpoints only; it cannot mint further keys.
• Reads the file at source when it's a local path, and nothing else. Network access is limited to baseUrl and the presigned storage target it hands back.

Or use MCP

If you'd rather not install a plugin, the same service is available as a hosted MCP server via the official bridge:

- id: mcp-pinch
  name: '@deepseek-ai/dsh-mcp-client'
  config:
    serverName: pinch
    transport: streamable-http
    url: https://portal.startpinch.com/api/mcp
    headers:
      Authorization: !!js `Bearer ${process.env.PINCH_API_KEY}`

The difference: MCP exposes the full API surface (uploads, subtitles, balance, job listing), which is more tools and finer grained. This plugin is three task-shaped tools with direct local-file upload and results trimmed for the model. Use the plugin for everyday dubbing, MCP when you need the whole API.

Development

npm install
npm run check   # typecheck + test + build

Documentation

Full parameter reference, language support and API details: startpinch.com/docs

License

MIT