- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
They are also AI dubbing show that already have a dub: https://xcancel.com/Pikagreg/status/1994654475089555599
They are also AI dubbing show that already have a dub: https://xcancel.com/Pikagreg/status/1994654475089555599
On one hand: It’s impossible to dub every single anime at a reasonable time.
On the other: I totally see the big companies refusing to hire real actors for dubbing because ‘muh profits’
I mean if you think about it, Japan solved that problem given that every series is already dubbed in one language.
I mean, not really. For all already existing ones, maybe, but for new ones? No reason for it to be impossible. The Japanese dub doesn’t appear out of thin air. The Western streaming services companies just aren’t willing to pay up.
Point 2 is true, Point 1 is simply not unless by reasonable time you mean immediately into every language.
There are ~25K anime in MyAnimeList. If we assume that there are 250K episodes with a total average length of 25 minutes, each, we are talking about dubbing 6.25 million minutes overall.
Let’s say 80% of them is not yet dubbed, that’ll be 5M minutes. Netflix delayed KaoruHana for at least two months to dub 8 episodes * 25 minutes, so they likely took three months to complete 200 minutes of footage i.e. a rate of 0.3 anime minutes/VA minute. Let’s say there are 100 organizations with three teams of dubbers each, so the rate can be expanded to 90 anime minutes/VA minute overall.
Clearing the backlog will require 55K minutes. That’s 925 hours/115 business days, or almost a year. I guess it is possible if we wait this long. And this calculation ignores time to select the right VA for the job, paying the amount the VAs request to accept the job, plus a whole lot of other factors I failed to mention or I don’t even know exist.
And this is for just one language (English), and I’m still waiting for the Italian dub of JoJo Part 5.