Human Web CollectiveAmazon’s AI ‘Banana Fish’ Dubs Are Hilariously, Inexcusably Bad
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www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2025/11/30/amazo…
They are also AI dubbing show that already have a dub:
https://xcancel.com/Pikagreg/status/1994654475089555599
To all those working on Naruto fan dubs on the early 2000s I say:
I am sorry. I was too hard on you. It took me 20 years to realize what ‘hot garbage " really is in the context of an anime dub.
Posted this in another community but I’ll leave this here too:
So back when I worked at Amazon I was playing around with AWS Skillbuilder. They don’t pay for any other training materials for SDEs (well they used to have ACloudGuru but ended that).
I was like “they charge money for this so it can’t be that bad right?” Well
1/3 of the courses were actually what I’d call “watchable”
1/3 were just SEO Blogspam masquerading as information
And the remaining 1/3 clearly used a text to speech software that was dreadful. It was incomprehensible.
I say all this to say that if there was ever a list of companies I would trust to do AI Dubs Amazon would be the bottom of that list.
isn’t interpreting language the ONE thing LLMs are supposed to be good at? jesus
They’re pretty bad outside of English-Chinese actually.
Voice-to-voice is all relatively new, and it sucks if it’s not all integrated (eg feeding a voice model plain text so it loses the original tone, emotion, cadence and such).
And… honestly, the only models I can think of that’d be good at this are Chinese. Or Japanese finetunes of Chinese models. Amazon certainly has some stupid policy where they aren’t allowed to use them (even with zero security risk since they’re open weights).