Amazon Prime Video’s AI dubbing could placate cinephiles while angering voice actors

Amazon Prime Video plans to use AI to dub foreign language shows and movies into English and Latin American Spanish. The company has begun a pilot program that uses “AI-aided” dubbing on 12 licensed movies and series, including titles such as El Cid: La Leyenda, Mi Mamá Lora, and Long Lost.

Amazon says the pilot uses a hybrid approach to dubbing “in which localization professionals collaborate with AI to ensure quality control,” and made it clear that it will only use its AI-aided process on content that doesn’t already have dubbing support.

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I reached out to Amazon to find out if the creators of the 12 pilot movies and series were involved in the process, but I hadn’t received a response by the time this article was published.

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