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<div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5093/C.wav' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='AI Tool Could Change Language in Films' data-article-id='5661'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='13771'>A start-up company has a tool that it says can recreate lip sync - matching a speaker’s lip movements with pre-recorded audio - in films.</span> <span data-start-time='13771' data-end-time='27917'>The artificial intelligence, or AI, tool may change how film producers replace recorded speech in a movie with speech recorded in another language. </span> <span data-start-time='27917' data-end-time='31292'>This process is known as dubbing.</span> <span data-start-time='31292' data-end-time='46875'>Start-up Flawless AI, co-founded by film director Scott Mann, has a tool that it says can recreate lip sync without changing the performance of the actors.</span> <span data-start-time='46875' data-end-time='50938'>The tool studies how actors move their mouths. </span> <span data-start-time='50938' data-end-time='59604'>It then changes the movements to sync with the replaced, or dubbed, words in different languages. </span> <span data-start-time='59604' data-end-time='70854'>The result could be that Tom Hanks looks like he can speak Japanese or Jack Nicholson looks like he can speak French.</span> <span data-start-time='70854' data-end-time='81979'>The idea for the tool came to Mann when he saw how dubbing affected his 2015 film "Heist," starring Robert De Niro.</span> <span data-start-time='81979' data-end-time='86958'>I hate dubbing as it stands, Mann told Reuters. </span> <span data-start-time='86958' data-end-time='92188'>He went on to describe the problems that dubbing can create. </span> <span data-start-time='92188' data-end-time='96792'>You have to change so many things to try and catch sync.</span> <span data-start-time='96792' data-end-time='103125'>You're changing words filmmakers and performers have thought about so deeply. </span> <span data-start-time='103125' data-end-time='109083'>They're thrown out to find a different word that fits, but it never really does.</span> <span data-start-time='109083' data-end-time='113479'>Mann decided to do something about this issue.</span> <span data-start-time='113479' data-end-time='125104'>After some research, he discovered a paper written by Christian Theobalt of the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Germany.</span> <span data-start-time='125104' data-end-time='134354'>The paper lays out a new method that uses artificial intelligence to recreate human visual effects.</span> <span data-start-time='134354' data-end-time='139396'>The tool worked to translate a De Niro scene in Heist. </span> <span data-start-time='139396' data-end-time='150854'>Man said the tool was able to take an 'ooh' sound from De Niro 20 minutes earlier and place that in a different moment in the film.</span> <span data-start-time='150854' data-end-time='161583'>He added, "It measures at the same time and blends it so that the performance is the same, but it's a different mouth movement."</span> <span data-start-time='161583' data-end-time='167792'>Blend is a term that means to mix something, often with good results.</span> <span data-start-time='167792' data-end-time='177479'>Flawless AI is now working with producers and studios to use the technology after filming is complete. </span> <span data-start-time='177479' data-end-time='182917'>The first films using this tool are around a year away.</span> <span data-start-time='182917' data-end-time='191833'>Mann believes this technology will help to remove foreign-language categories at award shows.</span> <span data-start-time='191833' data-end-time='198167'>It could create a more open film industry with a real global stage. </span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img src='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5093/C.jpeg'/></div></div><div id='question-content' style='display:none;'><div class='vocabulary_question question-container' data-question-id=17485 data-hint-location='161583' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5093/what_does_the_term_blend_mean.wav'>What does the term blend mean?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='To mix something, often with good results'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5093/to_mix_something_often_with_good_results.wav'><span>To mix something, often with good results</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5093/lacking_strong_features_or_characteristics_and_therefore_uninteresting.wav'><span>Lacking strong features or characteristics and therefore uninteresting</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5093/fair_or_pale_yellow.wav'><span>Fair or pale yellow</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5093/to_repair_something_that_is_broken_or_damaged.wav'><span>To repair something that is broken or damaged</span></div></div></div><div class='multiple_choice_question question-container' data-question-id=17486 data-hint-location='27917' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5093/what_is_the_process_of_replacing_recorded_speech_in_a_movie_with_speech_recorded_in_another_language_called.wav'>What is the process of replacing recorded speech in a movie with speech recorded in another language called?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='dubbing'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5093/dubbing.wav'><span>dubbing</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5093/relanguage.wav'><span>re-language</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5093/erasing.wav'><span>erasing</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5093/over_and_under.wav'><span>over and under</span></div></div></div><div class='sentence_completion_question question-container' data-question-id=17487 data-hint-location='182917' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5093/mann_believes_this_technology_will_help_to_remove_foreignlanguage_categories_at__blank_.wav'>Mann believes this technology will help to remove foreign-language categories at <span class='blank'>awards shows</span>.</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='awards shows'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5093/pageants.wav'><span>pageants</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5093/awards_shows.wav'><span>awards shows</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5093/movie_theaters.wav'><span>movie theaters</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5093/starbucks.wav'><span>Starbucks</span></div></div></div><div class='question-buttons'><button class='skip-button'></button><button class='hint-button'></button><button class='speak-button'></button></div></div></div>
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