Subtitles make you read. A live dub lets you watch. Here's how real-time dubbing works in DubMog, which situations it's built for, and the honest limits.
What "live dubbing" actually means
DubMog listens to the audio, recognises the speech, translates it, and speaks the translation back in your language — while the scene keeps playing. Latency is a couple of seconds, so the dub trails the original slightly, the way a live interpreter does. The original audio ducks under the dub so you still hear the performance.
Three ways to do it
- Dub a Video — for a file you have: camera roll, Files, cloud storage or an archive link. Pick the language, press play, and the dub runs over the video. When it ends you can export the dubbed version.
- Live System Dub (iPhone) — go live in DubMog, switch to the app that's playing, and DubMog dubs what that app plays. Best with headphones.
- In the browser — the web demo dubs a short clip with no install, and the DubMog Chrome extension dubs whole tabs as they play.
Getting a dub that keeps pace
- Set the source language if you know it. "Auto" works, but telling DubMog the show is Japanese removes a guess.
- Choose the tier for the job. Pro Cinematic is tuned for films — delivery and emotion. Pro Live is the lowest-latency mode, built for conversation. Standard is free and unlimited with an on-device voice.
- Use headphones for System Dub; it keeps the dub and the original from fighting over the speaker.
- Keep the transcript. Transcripts auto-save, so a line you missed is one tap away afterwards.
The honest limits
- Some apps protect their audio so nothing outside them can hear it. Those sources come through silent, and no dubbing app can change that. DubMog detects the silence and tells you, rather than charging you for nothing.
- Machine translation is very good and not perfect — great for following a story, not for legal or medical content.
- Only dub content you own or are otherwise authorized to use.
Cost, plainly
Standard is free, forever. Pro tiers use energy; new accounts get a free allowance to try them, and Pro Live uses more energy per minute than Pro Cinematic because it runs the faster engine. Everything is shown in the app before you start.