Startup Costs: $$$ (Out of a possible 5) 😳
There is a machine learning project Wav2Lip that allows you to take an audio and video file of the same length and sync it. 🤯
Repo:https://github.com/Rudrabha/Wav2Lip
Video Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ic0TBhfuOrA
There is also a company called Respeecher that will take an audio file's voice, tone, and mood and translate it into another voice. 🤯
Website: https://www.respeecher.com/
Video Demo:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5yw5cR79VA
I think someone can use these tools combined with contracted editors to create a company that creates better dubs in other native languages. The steps are below.
Voice act a scene from the show ( or hire a voice actor) and send that audio into Respeecher.
Respeecher will take the input voice (the voice actors) and the output voice ( the original actor's voice) and combine them so the words sound as if it came from the original actor's voice.
You then input the new audio with the old clip into wave2lip google collab notebook found in the repo.
The product is a new clip perfectly in sync with the original voice actors voice, the new voice actors language, and their tone; With the lips of the original scene matching up with the new audio.
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Pretty neat idea but I believe breaking into this industry is pretty hard. Moreover, how will you show the impact (PnL) from the product?
I agree that breaking into the industry is probably not easy. I think one thing that could be done to get someone's attention would be to upload partial clips of movies on youtube. I am sure if you picked popular movies one would have to go viral.
If you typed in popular foreign movie names into google trends, found the one with the highest search volume, and then made a perfect lip-sync dub in English. I think it would spread like wildfire. That could be used to partially gauge demand.
As for the (PnL) I think it is more of a nice to have than a need until the market adopts it. However, I believe money always follows the best quality. Disney probably pays loads of special effects contractors heaps of money for slightly better effects. They do this because they know the best movies will always make the most money. More of a general rule than an actual quantifiable number.