I have a daughter whom really likes Precure, but she only has three seasons she can watch in English. She is in kindergarten and can read a bit, but subtitles are a challenge for her.Has anyone else attempted or seen AI dubbing projects? I made my own using Codex and Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS.Here is a short recording of what it produced.www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQ7ybg7IsJ8Summary:Built a local pipeline that turned your episode and subtitle/cue package into a 24-minute English-dubbed MKV.- Voices: Google Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS, using consistent Japanese presets per character—female and male. We reused the Marotte/Ivy approach: explicit age-10 and regional-accent directions. Their perceived strength varies.- Tech stack: Windows/PowerShell, Python, PyTorch/Torchaudio, CUDA on your RTX 3080, FFmpeg and FFplay. Gemini’s REST and Batch APIs handled generation and analysis.- Dialogue removal: python-audio-separator with a Mel-Band Roformer model separated Japanese voices from estimated music and sound effects. Original opening and ending songs were retained.- Workflow: Review source cues assign cast generate bounded recording sessions align words locally with Wav2Vec2 CTC trim and adjust timing without changing pitch mix/master package the MKV.- Final video: 398 dialogue/reaction performances, English audio selected by default, original Japanese audio selectable, optional subtitles, and original video copied without re-encoding.- Process controls: Cached successful recordings, reused unchanged voices, used discounted batch generation, and retained exact prompts, receipts, hashes and revisions under D:\Easy Dub. Research included your ChatGPT chat, dub-studio and dub-anything.- Verification/cost: Model-assisted audio reviews plus a successful FFplay launch. Final listening review is yours. Estimated total Gemini usage: $0.62.
>>110097412>I have a daughter whom really likes Precure>She is in kindergarten Get her into cosplay while she's young holy shit.
>>110097412why not teach her japanese instead, she's in the critical period for easily acquiring additional languages
>>110098375OP would have to know japanese himself and only speak it around her. kids don't learn a language by manually studying it, they pick it up based on the speakers around them.
>>110098413I've often read anecdotes of eurofag anons who acquired English semi-fluency just by watching American programs, and arguing with fags online in English. At least it's functional.
>>110098375She could just take lessons from someone who's fluent
>>110098534I've wanted to try doing this. the problem is finding japs who will talk to a gaijin. if they know you're not a native speaker, they will just ignore you, or speak to you in AI-translated english.
>>110097412Mugi is awesome
>>110097594fpbp this
>>110097412Make her watch it in Japanese>>110098622https://learnjapanese.moe/guideAll you have to do is immerse>if they know you're not a native speaker, they will just ignore you, or speak to you in AI-translated english.You can go in VRChat language exchange worlds
>>110097412Your daughter is a troon
>>110100068based this is now a visual novel threadwhat are /g/'s favourite VNs
>>110097412I can't help you but Precure is based, your daughter has good taste
>>110098534>>110098622That's possible between European languages, but Japanese is too different to not require studying. Also:- By not studying, you're avoiding the only way to speed up learning- Unless you're like 8 years old, the slowness of trial and error when you're a complete beginner will make you drop the language- You have to be at the level where you understand media in your target language (at least written if you want to use text) to talk to anyone, so you should focus on reading and listening first
>>110098375>>110098534>>110098544>>110098413>>110098622>>110100068teaching her japanese is completely pointless, she will unlearn everything very quickly unless she interacts with the language regularly which she won't. It works for english because it is everywhere and even foreigners living in their native country will use it almost everyday if they can speak it. This is not true for japanese unless you live in japan. For example Louis CK doesn't speak a word of spanish despite the fact he is mexican and was born in mexico and it's his first native language, he lost it almost immediately when he moved to america as a child because he stopped using it (despite the fact he didn't speak any english when he first arrived).
>>110101159>because he stopped using itso keep giving her more jp input
>>110101080>That's possible between European languages, but Japanese is too different to not require studying.Completely wrong, do Japanese babies study (I guess I should put that in past tense lol)? Your ability improves as you keep immersing>- Unless you're like 8 years old, the slowness of trial and error when you're a complete beginner will make you drop the languageIf you give up you fail, if you don't want to learn Japanese then don't?and before someone comments about neuroplasticity it's just cope, age doesn't matter and even if it did why does it matter if it takes you a bit longer to learn if its something you want to learn then you can
Isn't 3 seasons enough? that's like 150 episodes. Well seems good enough the lip syncing doesn't match at all that might be weird Go do Heartcatch
>>110098534I pretty much did that. As soon as I gained enough knowledge that I could just understand enough that it became enjoyable my fluency skyrocketed. I still to this day have no fucking idea how to learn another language. It's just a pain in the ass to learn it until I can shitpost in the new language and give up on it.My girlfriend speaks like 5 languages though, and always offers that she helps, but she also has crazy discipline to actually sit down and learn for hours a day.
>>110097412>She is in kindergarten and can read a bit, but subtitles are a challenge for her.How about you teach her how to read better? In fact reading subtitles for a cartoon she loves would be a very, very, very easy way to get her to learn even on her own.
>>110098534>I've often read anecdotes of eurofag anons who acquired English semi-fluency just by watching American programs, and arguing with fags online in English. At least it's functional.I learnt English mostly by listening to songs in English (with the lyrics printed on the booklets), then watching Cartoon Network back when it was still showing mostly Hanna-Barbera and Looney Tunes (around 1992-3). By the time they were teaching it in school, all I learned there was a few more words I haven't known yet.But you won't learn japanese that way, they have an entirely different vocabulary. Japs keep practicing it and learning new words even in college.
>>110101159Then learn with her, trust her. Then travel Japan together when you're both have at least maybe JLPT N1
>>110101159>even foreigners living in their native country will use it almost everydayNo? Nobody uses English in my thirdie country
>>110101872>Japs keep practicing it and learning new words even in college.Do you think English speakers are any different?I'm just going to keep shilling https://learnjapanese.moe/routine
>>110098375>>110100068Resources for learning Japanese.https://mega.nz/folder/Y7lSjRoS#uCo2HM9aYhjdl9f44YujYA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcD75L4QLrM
>>110103568>transfer quota exceeded>almost 10 GB worth of shitgonna be awhile before I can download all this shit.I also recommend CureDolly for grammar. and of course, get an anki deck going.
Very heartwarming project, OP. I've never tried anything of this kind, so I won't be of help anyway, but I wish you best of luck.>>110098375OP says she is in kindergarten. If anything OP can be glad that she can read a little bit of English, learning Japanese, even for a child, is a years long project until you are fluent enough to understand media in that language, and, also, a certain way to make sure that she loses all joy from watching that show, because it won't be the the magical girl cartoon she likes to watch, but being associated with the whole ordeal of language learning, and if anything, that will kill all the joy she has from that show.
>>110103568>>110104655instead of core decks we use Kaishi 1.5k now, and dont use any of the genki textbooks its a waste of time, just look at r/learnjapanese subhumans vs the average visual novel reader, one indian (pakistani) managed to get full marks on n1 in 8.5 months (a full time jobs hours spent weekly though) so anyone can do it even if it takes longer as long as you do your kaishi 1.5k and mine cards from immersion everyday you will be good enough by the 1-2k hours range cure dolly is fine theres a text version too if you can't stand the voice changer and theres also DoJG and yoku.bianything good can be found at learnjapanese.moe or linked to from thereKaishi deck can be found here as well as links for torrenting and pirating stuff like a /g/ijitsu godhttps://learnjapanese.moe/resources/
>>110104655>>110105217Dolly is not fine lmao. People recommending her don't know nip grammar or what natural nip sound like.
Steppies
>>110102307You're using it right now retard
>>110097412This sounds terrible and it would be a disservice to ask your daughter watch it.The viewer is supposed to be on the edge of tears because the A-List Japanese actress is pouring her heart out on not being able to be sparkly, then the boy with the nice voice out of Beauty and the Beast says something calming with perfect vocal control, emotional crescendo, tears of joy flow, little girls hugging their plushies in the audience in unison on air.What you've created is an awkward stilted mechanical version just reading the lines, emotionless. It doesn't evoke any of this and is all filler.Give up on the project or transition to translating non-emotive news programs for yourself.Imagine if some movie you liked, The Iron Giant or something, haf such a flat and awkward reading of the script when you first watched it. You'd have hated the movie. Don't do this.
>>110097412>feeding your child ai slopISHYGDDT
>>110105217>Kaishi 1.5kthis is what i'm using, and I love it.
>all these weeks trying to convince op to waste his daughter's precious brain space on a completely useless skill (japanese)Just get her to read the subtitles, op. It's what I would do. It will make her better at reading. Don't force her to listen to ai slop dubs, that will probably fuck her up in some way unironically.If she gets used to reading subtitles in kindergarten, I can only imagine how fast and good she'll be at reading (a 1000x more useful skill than being mediocre at japanese)
>>110107569if she becomes a weeb herself she will thank her father for starting her on japanese early.
>>110097412Do not make your daughter listen to souless clankers. I get that it was a fun project for you but seriously don't.When I listen to someone talk for long enough, like on a tv show or irl, I start to pick up some of their vocal mannerism. Tonal patterns are nearly the same thing as emotional patterns, and strongly connected. AI can't really reproduce them. Ergo you'll turn your daughter into a sociopath or something.
>>110097412It's not awful but it's not great. I would suggest >>110098375 use those tokens to make a tutor for her to learn Japanese.
>>110101159>teaching her japanese is completely pointless, she will unlearn everything very quickly unless she interacts with the language regularly which she won't.Daily Precure/Idol streams.
have sex with her
>>110097412Do you use emotion tags at all for voice gen?Also, don't let her watch Hugtto or else she'll turn into a degen.
Another guide but more focused on VNs https://github.com/drinosaret/vn-club-resources/blob/main/content/guides/guide.mdxKnowing japanese is /g/anki-rwkv uses a new scheduling algorithm better than all the others (this is gijutstu since it uses AI)Learning Japanese can help get a job at JP companies
>>110097594What the fuck bro
>>110108720>Learning Japanese can help get a job at JP companieWhy would you want to get a job at a JP company, do you hate yourself?
>>110105719I'm using it to talk to people from other countries, and I only know English because I was learning it since age 7
>>110108720>anki-rwkv uses a new scheduling algorithm better than all the othersis it actually better? FSRS was such dogshit I switched back to fixed intervals for awhile and haven’t looked at anything else
>>110101689>do Japanese babies studyAnon, have you seen heritage speakers who had that "one parent speaks the language for basic things at home, nobody else in their life speaks it" arrangement? They can't understand shit. >>110103461>>110100068By reading grammar guides and using flashcards every day, you're actively studying. Those euros who say that they didn't study anything really mean it: immersion only, no mining, only checking a monolingual dictionary every once in a while.
>>110108085>Only girls wear dresses.The immediate next line:
*hits pipe*
>>110101080It's not that different. I only watched anime in my early 20s and picked up a few words that way.
>>110107721desu I don't think she should be watching that much TV either.
>>110098534It's true. I learned English basically at the native level by simply watching a lot of Cartoon Network as a kid.
>>110109825>Anon, have you seen heritage speakers who had that "one parent speaks the language for basic things at home, nobody else in their life speaks it" arrangement? They can't understand shit.I only speak a second language with my family (farkin foreigners) and when I speak with others I'm fluent, immersion only. obviously I can't write tho without studying. No grammar study or anki. If I could read I would have a larger vocab but I'm still fluent with 0 studying
>>110098534that's me
>>110098534We hade english classes in Sweden, however it's most likely through vidya and american & british movies etc that have had the greatest influence.Still I do fuck up sometimes by not writing down all the words that I formulate in my head.
>>110098375You can acquire languages later on in life just fine, this is just a dunning kruger-adjacent myth popularized by reddit
>>110112839trvke. the thing about being a kid is all the time you have. but a dedicated adult with time learns anything way faster than a kid
>>110097412>but she only has three seasons she can watchthat is probably a good thing. i seriously wouldn't recommend watching every single season of precure or even the majority of them. not all of them are really that good. each of those seasons are 50 eps long. they are deliberately designed to run year-round because their intended market is schoolgirls, and there is a ton of messaging about taking care of each other and shit a kindergartner isn't old enough to understand yet.reminder as a kid we were all blasted with reruns because it turns out the major cartoon channels employed psychological studies in children that found they prefer repetition and familiarity over brand new things.the precure universe, apart from a few sequels, wipes the slate clean every single season with a new cast of girls. that might leave your daughter wondering when her favorite characters are gonna return. she is also too young to understand any overarching plotlines in these shows anyway, which are mostly just SOL/monster of the week distraction/filler types of eps, and would probably benefit from rewatching those dubbed seasons several times over bingewatching the entire universe. i've been watching them as an adult and i don't even fucking remember them clearly. the side gig is obviously that they are mostly a method of selling marked up merch and misc plastic crap to children.you might also be able to get her into other anime such as ojamajo doremi, but if i recall right, there is only a dub for season 1, and they didn't even dub the entire thing, and also it fucking sucks. the western dub situation has always been dire. so if you can't get her into other shit, or can't even find anything interesting enough, then the theory must be right, give her reruns of pretty cure.lemonade a best btw.
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>Some people unironically telling OP to make her 3 year old daughter do Anki repsLol, lmao. The absolute state.
>>110108825imagine having a cute little anime girl at home
>>110117174no one said that esl-kun
TL;DR?What is OP asking?
>>110118339see >>110097412
>>110097412>help groom my kid, 4chan!
>>110119196how did you get there
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>>110098375>>110101159Move to Japan instead
That's very cool OP. And surprisingly sounds nice.
>>110105854>This sounds terribleI enjoyed all the terrible dubbed anime I watched as child. I enjoyed them even more watching them subbed when was older.
>>110097412She's at the right age, teach her some Japanese and she can get better at it watching the undubbed seasons.
>>110109835Wasn't the context here that long Victorian or Kimono style skirts can be used to conceal large items, and one of the suspects in a theft case being a man inexplicably wearing one is a key clue? The wrong assumption was to trust his alibi, before revealing he was the mustachio'd Phantom Thief under the Scooby Doo mask with the missing trumpet or something hanging under his enormous kilt.The moral of the story is that men in dresses steal and can't be trusted.
>>110122985those were still humans doing their bessthis is soulless robot voice and will fuck up the child's ability to understand human emotions properly creating a super autist retard that will surely be imprisoned
>>110124152like the average 4chan drone
>>110119196doesn't grooming mean everything done to raise them?sending your kids to school, sports practice, piano lessons, teaching them to cook is all grooming
>>110097412>whomwhat the fuck dude? do you **not** know how to use the right one? it's easy: just substitute "she" and "her" into the phrase, like so: "she really likes Precure", and "her really likes Precure". whiich one fucking sounds more correct? the first one of course. and that's the *subjective* form, so you use "who", instead of "whom" (if it were the objective form).
>>110097412dubfags get the rope. kys op
>>110100866Sakura, Moyu
>>110123483>The moral of the story is that men in dresses steal and can't be trusted.It was a woman dressed up as a man.
>>110122985i can't stand dubs now, but as a kid i just wasn't aware they were dubs to begin with
>>110097412if your wife's daughter cant read you should correct her lightly [spoiler]and show her that reading is actually lots of fun and IS NOT for fags[/spoiler]>>110117127>>110117233duality of man
no one even shilled jiten.moe yetit has media and their difficulty
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