Dubba, a dubbing studio open to everyone
Dubbing a scene used to require a studio, gear, voice actors and sound engineers. Dubba fits that whole chain into a browser, so anyone can try.
Where the project comes from
Dubba started from a simple observation: amateur dubbing has existed for forty years, plenty of people love it, and yet getting started is still discouraging. You need editing software, you need to work out how to strip a voice without losing the music, transcribe the dialogue by hand, and time every line by ear. Most people give up before recording a single sentence.
The idea was to remove everything that is not acting. The machine handles the rest.
What Dubba does
Strip the voices, keep the rest
A model splits the mix in two: voices on one side, music and effects on the other. We keep the second. How it works.
Write out the dialogue, with its timing
Every line is transcribed and placed to the second, and the different characters are separated.
Scroll a rythmo band
The tool used in French dubbing booths: the text slides at picture speed and tells you when to speak. What it is.
Mix and share
Your voice sits on the music and effects track. The result can be published or kept private.
What Dubba cannot do
Worth saying plainly, it avoids disappointment.
Current limits
- Vocal separation is never perfect: on a heavily compressed source, artefacts remain in the high end.
- Character detection gets it wrong when two voices sound alike. You can fix it by hand.
- Automatic transcription makes mistakes, especially on shouts and whispers.
- Dubba does not replace your performance: it removes the technical obstacles, not the acting.
What works well
- Dialogue scenes with the music sitting back.
- Short clips, thirty seconds to two minutes.
- Good quality sources, not heavily recompressed.
- Dubbing together, everyone on their own time.
Beta, and it shows
Dubba is under construction. You will run into bugs and unfinished parts. That is deliberate: an imperfect tool in the hands of people who test it beats a perfect tool that never ships.
If something breaks, tell us. Every report reaches the team directly, and many fixes come from there.
Get in touch
A question, a bug, an idea, or a request about your personal data: write to contact@dubba.studio.
Inside the app, the Report a bug button (the Beta badge at the bottom left, or the menu on mobile) sends your message along with the page it came from, which saves us a lot of time.
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