• YouTube plans to launch AI-generated lip sync to automatically dubbed videos. • It may soon start testing the feature in English, French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish. • The feature may incur additional fees, which will likely have to be borne by users.
Whether you like it or not, Google isn’t backing down on its attempts to increase engagement by automatically translating audio into your native tongue. Now, following continuous and unwavering stabs at simply translating audio with autodubbing, YouTube may take it a notch higher with realistic-looking audio dubs with accurate lip sync in an attempt to make videos more appealing with AI.
YouTube’s product lead for Auto-dubbing, Buddhika Kottahachchi, recently detailed the technology behind lip-synced autodubs in a conversation wi