Artificial Intelligence and Dubbing: A Literature Review of the Current and Possible Future Capabilities of AI in Film and Television Dubbing

There are few translation tasks as complex and multi-modal as dubbing. A successful dub requires the coordination of a team of translators, directors, voice actors, and sound engineers exercising attention on an array of interdependent elements of an audiovisual medium in order to transfer these into a different language and cultural context. These elements must be carefully balanced, as they restrict one another while simultaneously contributing to the audience’s experience of the finished dub in unique ways. The intricacy of this process renders dubbing a task far beyond the capabilities of simple machine translation (MT).