The Idea
Allow commercials and films to be filmed in a foreign country with lip movements that look like English through a software that would make English lip movements in the foreign language. For example, if you wanted to say "This is my favorite soft drink" in English but you were filming in Ukraine, the software would figure out that the sentence "Frog tree password archery" looks like the correct English lip movements. The Ukrainian actor would say "Frog free password archery" and the voice-over artist would dub in the English later.
Origins
I was showing my kids really badly dubbed kung fu movies and thought of this idea. Chief target market would probably be the adult film industry.
How It Works
Focus on a country in which it is cheap and easy to film. Work with a linguist to examine mouth movements and relate those movements to English sounds. Write software that breaks the English sounds into mouth shapes and then searches for the foreign language phoneme that makes a similar shape. Connect the phonemes to search for words in that language.
Resources Needed
Linguistics, software programming.
Sustainable Competitive Advantage (If Any)
This idea is so wacky, nobody would think to copy it. But there's no sustainable competitive advantage I can see.
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