This AI Makes Robert De Niro Perform Lines in Flawless German
WiredYou talkin’ to me … in German? New deepfake technology allows Robert De Niro to deliver his famous line from Taxi Driver in flawless German—with realistic lip movements and facial expressions. The AI software manipulates an actor’s lips and facial expressions to make them convincingly match the speech of someone speaking the same lines in a different language. Dubbing sometimes involves changing dialog significantly, Mann says, in an effort to make it more closely match an actor’s lip movements. “You make a small change in a word or a performance, it can have a large change on a character in the story beat, and in turn on the film.” Mann began researching academic work related to deepfakes, which led him to a project involving AI dubbing led by Christian Theobalt, a professor at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Germany.
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