{"id":19389,"date":"2025-07-09T03:37:36","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T01:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/09\/watch-the-skies-review-see-the-lips-move-in-alien-abduction-sci-fi-with-pioneering-ai\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T03:37:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T01:37:36","slug":"watch-the-skies-review-see-the-lips-move-in-alien-abduction-sci-fi-with-pioneering-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/09\/watch-the-skies-review-see-the-lips-move-in-alien-abduction-sci-fi-with-pioneering-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch the Skies review \u2013 see the lips move in alien abduction sci-fi with pioneering AI"},"content":{"rendered":"

This nicely put together Swedish UFO throwback is notable for its early use of \u2018vlubbing\u2019 \u2013 using tech to match lip movements to new English dialogue. What\u2019s coming next?<\/p>\n

Here is a derivative but nicely put together sci-fi throwback, in which Inez Dahl Torhaug stars as Denise, a rebellious teenager in foster care whose father went missing in 1988. A dedicated ufologist for whom the truth was very much out there, Denise\u2019s dad was trying to find aliens when he vanished. Alien abduction? Government cover up? Regular old disappeared-guy? When his old car falls from the sky into a local barn eight years later, Denise joins forces with her father\u2019s friends at UFO-Sweden, including the likably nervous Lennart (Jesper Barkselius) plus assorted misfits, to investigate what leads they have, including the potential role of a shady-seeming organisation, the SMHI, AKA The Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute.<\/p>\n

You may gather from the names above that this is a Swedish film, and yet the dialogue is entirely in English. What gives? The unexpected twist is that the film is an early example of a technique that you can easily imagine becoming standard practice for streaming platforms hoping to reach multiple territories for minimal cost: AI-assisted dubbing. The original actors have re-recorded their lines and AI tech has been used to edit the visuals so that the lip movements from the original Swedish version match the new English dialogue. The technique is called \u201cvlubbing\u201d (visual + dubbing) and the target audience is seemingly the kind that won\u2019t read subtitles or watch a traditional dub.<\/p>\n

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\nThis nicely put together Swedish UFO throwback is notable for its early use of \u2018vlubbing\u2019 \u2013 using tech to match lip movements to new English dialogue. What\u2019s coming next?
\nHere is a derivative but nicely put together sci-fi throwback, in which Inez Dahl Torhaug stars as Denise, a rebellious teenager in foster care whose father went missing in 1988. A dedicated ufologist for whom the truth was very much out there, Denise\u2019s dad was trying to find aliens when he vanished. Alien abduction? Government cover up? Regular old disappeared-guy? When his old car falls from the sky into a local barn eight years later, Denise joins forces with her father\u2019s friends at UFO-Sweden, including the likably nervous Lennart (Jesper Barkselius) plus assorted misfits, to investigate what leads they have, including the potential role of a shady-seeming organisation, the SMHI, AKA The Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute.
\nYou may gather from the names above that this is a Swedish film, and yet the dialogue is entirely in English. What gives? The unexpected twist is that the film is an early example of a technique that you can easily imagine becoming standard practice for streaming platforms hoping to reach multiple territories for minimal cost: AI-assisted dubbing. The original actors have re-recorded their lines and AI tech has been used to edit the visuals so that the lip movements from the original Swedish version match the new English dialogue. The technique is called \u201cvlubbing\u201d (visual + dubbing) and the target audience is seemingly the kind that won\u2019t read subtitles or watch a traditional dub. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This nicely put together Swedish UFO throwback is notable for its early use of \u2018vlubbing\u2019 \u2013 using tech to match lip movements to new English dialogue. What\u2019s coming next? Here is a derivative but nicely put together sci-fi throwback, in which Inez Dahl Torhaug stars as Denise, a rebellious teenager in foster care whose father …<\/p>\n

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