Dubbing Is Speaker Mapping, Not Just Audio Swap
Describe dubbing as a speaker-preservation and source-separation workflow rather than a simple translation export.
The translated words can be perfect and the dub can still fail. Speaker preservation The ElevenLabs dubbing docs explicitly call out preserving each speaker’s tone, pace, and style in the target language. That means a dub is partly a casting problem. If two speakers flatten into one generic cadence, the audience feels that loss immediately. Source separation and speaker count Dubbing v2 supports multiple overlapping speakers and recommends up to nine unique speakers per file for best quality. The API also lets you set num_speakers or leave it at zero for automatic detection. That choice changes how well the system…
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