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Why live dubbing lags a sentence behind, and how dubbing from buffered audio fixes it

Disclosure: I work on EarDub, a browser extension that dubs videos into other languages. This post is about a design problem we hit, not a product pitch, but the product comes up at the end.

  • Live dubbing lags a sentence behind due to translation process.
  • Buffered audio allows translation to start ahead of viewer.
  • Works with recorded videos, not live streams.

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