Archive dubbing with AI
Your archive, in another language.
Dub archive programmes, each sentence starting with its original, on your own systems.
Spanish→
EnglishFinished- 01On its originalevery sentence starts where it was said
- 02A voice eachfor every speaker
- 03Ready to delivervideo, sound, subtitles and the sentence list
The programme
One programme in. One folder out.
A Spanish documentary from the archive, dubbed into English. Each dubbed sentence starts where its original starts.
- Video
- documentary.en.dub.mp4
- Sound
- documentary.en.dub.mp3
- Voice only
- documentary.en.voice.mp3
- Under the voice
- documentary.en.bed.mp3
- Subtitles
- documentary.en.srt
- Subtitles
- documentary.es.srt
- Sentence list
- documentary.en.dub.csv
Your files carry the name of your own recording.
Step by step
The backlog, one programme at a time.
Two steps for the archive team, the first and the last. Tolkr™ does the work in between and shows the time left.
- 01Choose the programme
Pick the file, the two languages and the files you want back.
- 02Let it work
Tolkr™ translates and voices every sentence, with a voice for each speaker.
- 03Check it
Play the dub inside Tolkr™, each translated sentence under its original.
- 04File it
Open the folder and pass each file to its place: the archive, the editor, the subtitler.
- Not from zeroRestart
Start a stopped dub again, and it continues from where it stopped.
- Saved againLater formats
Another format later comes from the finished dub, with nothing dubbed again.
- Named your wayPattern
The name of the recording, the language, the date and the time, in the order you set.
The sentence list
Every sentence, a row of its own.
A text record of the dub that opens in a spreadsheet: what was said, how it was translated, who said it and where.
| No. | Start | Original | Translation | Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 0:02.4 | En 1998 el puerto cambió para siempre. | In 1998 the harbour changed for ever. | Speaker 1 |
| 2 | 0:07.1 | Llegaron los primeros contenedores. | The first containers arrived. | Speaker 1 |
| 3 | 0:11.8 | Nadie sabía qué iba a pasar con el trabajo. | Nobody knew what would happen to the work. | Speaker 2 |
| 4 | 0:16.5 | Mi padre trabajó aquí cuarenta años. | My father worked here for forty years. | Speaker 2 |
The file also holds where each sentence ends and the voice that speaks it.
Who gets what
One dub. A folder for the whole team.
Each person finds their part, without dubbing again.
- Archive
- The dubbed video and the sentence list as a text record
- Editor
- The dubbed video and the subtitles
- Sound engineer
- The mix, the voice alone and the original under it
- Subtitler
- Both subtitle files and the sentence list
- Video
- MP4, MOV
- Sound
- MP3, WAV, FLAC, M4A, Opus
- Subtitles
- SRT, WebVTT
- Sentence list
- CSV
- Level
- -23 LUFS, peaks under -1 dBTP
Your questions
Asked by your role.
Choose your role. Each one has the questions people in it ask first, answered.
Archivist3 questions
- Is the original kept?
Yes. It stays under the voice, and the video keeps it as a second track the viewer can switch to.
- Can the files follow our naming?
Yes. Set the pattern once: the name of the recording, the language, the date and the time, in the order you set.
- Can I change the format later?
Yes. Save the files again from the finished dub, without dubbing again.
Editor3 questions
- How long does a dub take?
It depends on the workstation and the length of the programme. A card shows the time left, and we run it on your own material in a demo.
- Can I check it line by line?
Yes. The dub plays inside Tolkr™ with every sentence one click away, and the sentence list holds each one with its times and both texts.
- Does each speaker get a voice?
Yes. Tolkr™ tells the speakers apart and gives each one a voice, and you can change it.
Head of IT3 questions
- Does it need the internet to translate?
No. Recognition, translation and the voice run on your own systems.
- What does it run on?
Windows 11. A graphics card makes it faster, and it also runs on the processor. Tolkr™ sets itself up for each workstation.
- What leaves our systems?
Nothing during use. We watched the connections Tolkr™ opened during a live session, a dub and a voice test, and none left the PC. The only text that can leave is meeting captions for everyone, when you turn them on.
Also in this group
More in Broadcast and media.
- Live channelsFollow a foreign channel live on a PC, with captions and a natural voice, on your organisation's own systems.
- Newsroom monitoringFollow the channel as it airs, then read back the whole transcript. For newsrooms, on your own systems.
- Press conferencesFollow a press conference as it happens, and keep the full bilingual record on your own systems.
- PodcastsDub a recorded podcast on your own systems. Each speaker gets a voice, with sound files and subtitles to deliver.
Try it on your own material.
We run Tolkr™ on a recording or a stream of yours, so you judge it on your own work.
Request a demo