Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones’s Hungarian dialogue in The Brutalist was enhanced using AI tools, according to the film’s editor Dávid Jancsó.
“They did a fabulous job but we also wanted to perfect it so that not even locals will spot any difference,” Jancsó added.
So we looked for other options of how to enhance it.” To perfect the dialogue, Jancsó says the filmmakers used AI tools from the Ukrainian company Respeecher.
Jancsó added that he even fed some of his own voice into the AI systems to help the filmmakers find the correct balance.
“We should be having a very open discussion about what tools AI can provide us with.
Editor Dávid Jancsó of The Brutalist claims that AI tools were used to improve Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones’s Hungarian dialogue.
According to Jancsó, who was interviewed by the tech magazine Red Shark News, Brody and Jones received extensive instruction in the language. “I am a native Hungarian speaker and I know that it is one of the most difficult languages to learn to pronounce,” he said.
“They did an amazing job, but we also wanted to make it flawless so that even the locals wouldn’t notice the difference,” Jancsó continued.
Some sounds can be especially challenging to understand if you’re from the Anglo-Saxon world. We started by attempting to ADR these more difficult aspects with the actors. Then, using other actors, we attempted to ADR them entirely, but it was unsuccessful. We thus searched for alternative ways to improve it. “.”.
“The filmmakers used AI tools from the Ukrainian company Respeecher to perfect the dialogue,” Jancsó says. Jancsó went on to say that in order to assist the filmmakers in striking the right balance, he even put some of his own voice into the AI systems.
“We took great care to preserve their performances. He stated, “It’s mostly just changing letters here and there.”. We had a lot of Hungarian-language conversation, so we had to expedite the process to avoid still being in post. However, you can do this in ProTools yourself. “”.
The magazine mentions that in a late scene of the movie, AI was also utilized to produce a number of architectural drawings.
“Talking about AI is controversial in the industry, but it shouldn’t be,” Jancsó stated. “We ought to be discussing openly what resources AI can offer us. Nothing in the movie makes use of AI that hasn’t already been done. Simply put, it speeds up the process considerably. We use artificial intelligence (AI) to produce these minute details that we couldn’t afford or time to shoot. “.”.