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To translate speech for automatic dubbing, machine translation needs to be isochronous, i.e. translated speech needs to be aligned with the source in terms of speech durations. We introduce target factors in a transformer model to predict…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Proyag Pal , Brian Thompson , Yogesh Virkar , Prashant Mathur , Alexandra Chronopoulou , Marcello Federico

We introduce the task of isochrony-aware machine translation which aims at generating translations suitable for dubbing. Dubbing of a spoken sentence requires transferring the content as well as the speech-pause structure of the source into…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Derek Tam , Surafel M. Lakew , Yogesh Virkar , Prashant Mathur , Marcello Federico

Automatic dubbing (AD) is among the machine translation (MT) use cases where translations should match a given length to allow for synchronicity between source and target speech. For neural MT, generating translations of length close to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Surafel M. Lakew , Yogesh Virkar , Prashant Mathur , Marcello Federico

The goal of automatic dubbing is to perform speech-to-speech translation while achieving audiovisual coherence. This entails isochrony, i.e., translating the original speech by also matching its prosodic structure into phrases and pauses,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Yogesh Virkar , Marcello Federico , Robert Enyedi , Roberto Barra-Chicote

Video dubbing aims to translate the original speech in a film or television program into the speech in a target language, which can be achieved with a cascaded system consisting of speech recognition, machine translation and speech…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Yihan Wu , Junliang Guo , Xu Tan , Chen Zhang , Bohan Li , Ruihua Song , Lei He , Sheng Zhao , Arul Menezes , Jiang Bian

Dubbing is a type of audiovisual translation where dialogues are translated and enacted so that they give the impression that the media is in the target language. It requires a careful alignment of dubbed recordings with the lip movements…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Alp Öktem , Mireia Farrús , Antonio Bonafonte

Automatic subtitling is the task of automatically translating the speech of audiovisual content into short pieces of timed text, i.e. subtitles and their corresponding timestamps. The generated subtitles need to conform to space and time…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Sara Papi , Marco Gaido , Alina Karakanta , Mauro Cettolo , Matteo Negri , Marco Turchi

Recently, artificial intelligence-based dubbing technology has advanced, enabling automated dubbing (AD) to convert the source speech of a video into target speech in different languages. However, natural AD still faces synchronization…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Changi Hong , Yoonah Song , Hwayoung Park , Chaewoon Bang , Dayeon Ku , Do Hyun Lee , Hong Kook Kim

We present enhancements to a speech-to-speech translation pipeline in order to perform automatic dubbing. Our architecture features neural machine translation generating output of preferred length, prosodic alignment of the translation with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Marcello Federico , Robert Enyedi , Roberto Barra-Chicote , Ritwik Giri , Umut Isik , Arvindh Krishnaswamy , Hassan Sawaf

Automatic dubbing aims at seamlessly replacing the speech in a video document with synthetic speech in a different language. The task implies many challenges, one of which is generating translations that not only convey the original…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Surafel M. Lakew , Marcello Federico , Yue Wang , Cuong Hoang , Yogesh Virkar , Roberto Barra-Chicote , Robert Enyedi

We describe a system for large-scale audiovisual translation and dubbing, which translates videos from one language to another. The source language's speech content is transcribed to text, translated, and automatically synthesized into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Yi Yang , Brendan Shillingford , Yannis Assael , Miaosen Wang , Wendi Liu , Yutian Chen , Yu Zhang , Eren Sezener , Luis C. Cobo , Misha Denil , Yusuf Aytar , Nando de Freitas

Dubbing is a post-production process of re-recording actors' dialogues, which is extensively used in filmmaking and video production. It is usually performed manually by professional voice actors who read lines with proper prosody, and in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-16 Chenxu Hu , Qiao Tian , Tingle Li , Yuping Wang , Yuxuan Wang , Hang Zhao

We investigate how humans perform the task of dubbing video content from one language into another, leveraging a novel corpus of 319.57 hours of video from 54 professionally produced titles. This is the first such large-scale study we are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-16 William Brannon , Yogesh Virkar , Brian Thompson

Automatic dubbing, which generates a corresponding version of the input speech in another language, could be widely utilized in many real-world scenarios such as video and game localization. In addition to synthesizing the translated…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Jingbei Li , Sipan Li , Ping Chen , Luwen Zhang , Yi Meng , Zhiyong Wu , Helen Meng , Qiao Tian , Yuping Wang , Yuxuan Wang

Automatic Video Dubbing (AVD) aims to take the given script and generate speech that aligns with lip motion and prosody expressiveness. Current AVD models mainly utilize visual information of the current sentence to enhance the prosody of…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Yuan Zhao , Zhenqi Jia , Rui Liu , De Hu , Feilong Bao , Guanglai Gao

This paper introduces a cross-lingual dubbing system that translates speech from one language to another while preserving key characteristics such as duration, speaker identity, and speaking speed. Despite the strong translation quality of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Jeongsoo Choi , Jaehun Kim , Joon Son Chung

Speech Translation has always been about giving source text or audio input and waiting for system to give translated output in desired form. In this paper, we present the Acoustic Dialect Decoder (ADD) - a voice to voice ear-piece…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-12-01 Hans Krupakar , Keerthika Rajvel , Bharathi B , Angel Deborah S , Vallidevi Krishnamurthy

Video dubbing aims to generate high-fidelity speech that is precisely temporally aligned with the visual content. Existing methods still suffer from limitations in speech naturalness and audio-visual synchronization, and are limited to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-08 Kaidi Wang , Yi He , Wenhao Guan , Weijie Wu , Hongwu Ding , Xiong Zhang , Di Wu , Meng Meng , Jian Luan , Lin Li , Qingyang Hong

Some methods of automatic simultaneous translation of a long-form speech allow revisions of outputs, trading accuracy for low latency. Deploying these systems for users faces the problem of presenting subtitles in a limited space, such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Dominik Macháček , Ondřej Bojar

Video dubbing aims to translate original speech in visual media programs from the source language to the target language, relying on neural machine translation and text-to-speech technologies. Due to varying information densities across…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Chaoqun Cui , Liangbin Huang , Shijing Wang , Zhe Tong , Zhaolong Huang , Xiao Zeng , Xiaofeng Liu
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