[Edling] Will AI make language dubbing easy for film and TV?

[Francis M. Hult via Edling]

BBC

Will AI make language dubbing easy for film and TV?

"DeepEditor uses a combination of face detection, facial recognition,
landmark detection [such as facial features] and 3D face tracking to
understand the actor's appearance, physical actions and emotional
performance in every shot," says Mr Mann.

The tech can preserve actors' original performances across languages,
without reshoots or re-recordings, reducing costs and time, he
says...However, Neta Alexander, assistant professor of film and media at
Yale University, says that while the promise of wider distribution is
tempting, using AI to reconfigure performances for non-native markets risks
eroding the specificity and texture of language, culture, and gesture...

Meanwhile, she says, the displacement of subtitles, a key tool for language
learners, immigrants, deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers and many others,
raises concerns about accessibility.

Full story:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c36xy6r91kwo
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