Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Generative AI has transformed the technology, the workflow, and arguably the ethics of dubbing dialogue for TV and movies in recent years, with the costly and time-consuming traditional approach of a voice actor, director, and technical crew gathering in a studio for live audio replacement very much a thing of the past. The perception now is that generative AI can easily (and some would say dangerously) produce or replicate virtually any voice, but Dubformer’s Anton Dvorkovich insists that generating the desired voice and refining it toward perfection remain challenging and as much art as science—for dialogue and especially for singing—as he explains in this conversation with Google’s Nick Manoocherhi, DigitalGlue’s Philip Grossman, and PADEM Media Group’s Allan McLennan at Streaming Media 2025.
Generative AI has transformed the technology, the workflow, and arguably the ethics of dubbing dialogue for TV and movies in recent years, with the costly and time-consuming traditional approach of a voice actor, director, and technical crew gathering in a studio for live audio replacement very much a thing of the past. The perception now is that generative AI can easily (and some would say dangerously) produce or replicate virtually any voice, but Dubformer’s Anton Dvorkovich insists that generating the desired voice and refining it toward perfection remain challenging and as much art as science—for dialogue and especially for singing—as he explains in this conversation with Google’s Nick Manoocherhi, DigitalGlue’s Philip Grossman, and PADEM Media Group’s Allan McLennan at Streaming Media 2025.
