Good News For Actors Who Can't Do Dialects

[MikoTython]

They won't need to anymore - there's AI :

Adrien Brody's win for best actor at the Oscars is reviving controversy – and it's not due to another strange on-stage kiss or his shutting down the orchestra for an extra long acceptance speech.

Brody's award-winning performance in The Brutalist, a film about a fictional architect and refugee making his way to the U.S., was enhanced with artificial intelligence.

The film's editor, Dávid Jancsó of Hungary, discussed artificial intelligence's use in a January interview, saying Brody and co-star Felicity Jones worked with a dialect coach to improve their accents. The production team then attempted to replace some spoken Hungarian with voiceover work from other actors before opting for the AI assist instead, which included feeding Jancsó's own voice into a technology called Respeecher to enhance specific sounds.

The film's director, Brady Corbet, later defended the use, saying the AI tool was used only to refine the pronunciation of Hungarian dialogue by Brody and Jones. But some critics say it's in keeping with using AI to minimize man-made craftsmanship in the movies and even eliminate jobs...
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/04/nx-s1-53 ... telligence

[edwin drood]

That's just not right. One of the things that makes an actor great is their ability to convincingly portray another person or character, like the brilliant Meryl Streep. I'd refuse to watch a film if the actors were lip syncing to AI generated voices.

https://youtu.be/vvNWeAX3X0U?si=3nrdV2bOGDFxB1bo

[Dicktar2023]

That's just not right. One of the things that makes an actor great is their ability to convincingly portray another person or character, like the brilliant Meryl Streep. I'd refuse to watch a film if the actors were lip syncing to AI generated voices.

https://youtu.be/vvNWeAX3X0U?si=3nrdV2bOGDFxB1bo

It was only used to affect the dialogue spoken in Hungarian.

The film's director, Brady Corbet, later defended the use, saying the AI tool was used only to refine the pronunciation of Hungarian dialogue by Brody and Jones.

[Pink Freud]

I used to love going to The Studio Stores on Ventura Blvd. In Studio City and on Sepulveda in midtown L. A. To see the racks of CDs and DVDs training actors on how to learn--- or UNlearn--- numerous regional and international accents.

My acting teacher at Weist-Barron-Hill in Burbank, the great Lyle Hill, was a major soaps director/producer who hired a New Hampshire actor to portray a character from Vermont. The NBC switchboard lit up with complaints from viewers in Vermont, who could tell his learned dialect wasn't genuine.

Fans of the 1950s TV series "Adventures of Superman" (George Reeves, Phyllis Coates) might recall a frequently-seen actor from Season One named Steve Carr...who received acting credits for only 2 or 3 of his numerous character roles from that season, presumably since he was already credited as the series' dialogue coach.

In that role, he must have really affected one episode's guest star Robert , whose character in "The Runaway Robot" had a goofy backwoods accent in his single "Superman" appearance, but in time he became one of Hollywood's most respected dialogue/dialect coaches.

[Pink Freud]

In that role, he must have really affected one episode's guest star Robert Easton, whose character in "The Runaway Robot" had a goofy backwoods accent in his single "Superman" appearance, but in time he became one of Hollywood's most respected dialogue/dialect coaches.

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