How ‘The Champion’ Could Bolster the Foreign Language Film Market Through AI
Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor With more and more viewers tuning in to international television shows and movies on streaming,Israeli based company Adapt Entertainment has found a way for the programming to speak to everyone — literally. The company’s founder, Darryl Marks, says fans often complain about how poorly a show or film is dubbed. Adapt’s technology combines AI and visual effects to seamlessly convert movie dialogue into English and other languages. Most recently, the tech was used for the English transfer of Maciej Barczewski’s film “The Champion” — about a prizefighter who must win his matches to survive in Auschwitz — set for a U.S. release later thisyear. Barczewski calls the technology a “game changer.” The original movie is in Polish and German; the director wanted to film in English but didn’t have the budget to do so.