by Gabriele De Rossi | Jul 17, 2026 | Insights
Voice cloning laws are being tested in court, and one of the most recent cases sits squarely in dubbing. In April 2026 twenty-five French dubbing actors obtained the removal of 47 AI-generated models that reproduced their voices without consent and without payment,...
by Oliver Gambarini | Jul 10, 2026 | Insights
Few agencies run an in-house recording room, and the ones that do rarely keep it busy all year. That is not a weakness. Audio production for agencies works better as a capability drawn from a specialist partner than as a department kept running on empty. Giving a...
by Gabriele De Rossi | Jun 26, 2026 | Insights
On screen, no one in a reality show follows a script, yet reality TV localization still means writing one, and that is what makes the work harder, not easier. The speech reaches the studio with no text behind it: broken sentences, people talking over each other,...
by Oliver Gambarini | Jun 19, 2026 | Insights
The clank of armor in Spartacus is a set of keys jangled in front of a microphone. The frost creeping toward Rose in Titanic is frozen lettuce, peeled apart leaf by leaf. These are well-known examples of Foley work, but they describe only part of how foley sound...
by Gabriele De Rossi | Jun 12, 2026 | Insights
A scene shot outdoors, perfect light, the actors at their best. In the edit, though, the dialogue disappears under traffic noise and a gust of wind that the microphone picked up better than the lines. The director says the phrase every sound recordist knows well:...
by Oliver Gambarini | Jun 5, 2026 | Insights
Anyone researching the dubbing director role already has a working grasp of what the title means. What is less obvious, even to those who commission localization regularly, is how much this figure shapes the final result and the return on that investment. Two studios...
