Let’s hear the voice of voice actors! Exploring the role of voice actors in the process of dubbing translation by Ebru Çavuşoğlu

Subjects: “…dubbing; voice actors; dubbing translators; the dubbing translation process; voicing; challenges of voicing…”
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The consumption of popular culture products among Japanese language learners at Universiti Teknologi Mara by Ahmad, Normah, Mamat, Roslina

“…The result from the study indicates that the consumption of Japanese popular culture products is high among Japanese as a Foreign Language (JFL) learners, and this could be implied that they are very interested in anime, manga, song, and seiyu (voice actor), and these are used as a tool to improve their proficiency in the Japanese language.…”

Vtubers and anime culture: a case study of Japanese learners in two public universities in Malaysia by Mamat, Roslina, Abdul Rashid, Roswati, Paee, Rokiah, Ahmad, Normah

“…The results showed that the most popular culture is anime, followed by manga, song and seiyuu (voice actor/actress). The most well-liked anime genre is fantasy, followed by humour, love stories (romance), and mystery. …”

How Does a Spontaneously Speaking Conversational Agent Affect User Behavior? by Takahisa Iizuka, Hiroki Mori

“…The synthesized speech is clear as if a newscaster were reading the news or a voice actor were playing an anime character. However, this is quite different from spontaneous speech we speak in everyday conversation. …”
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Wearable Neck Surface Accelerometers for Occupational Vocal Health Monitoring: Instrument and Analysis Validation Study by Zhengdong Lei, Lisa Martignetti, Chelsea Ridgway, Simon Peacock, Jon T Sakata, Nicole Y K Li-Jessen

“…MethodsA total of 16 professional voice actors (age range 21-50 years; 11 females and 5 males) participated in this study. …”
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Pot fi actorii „reprezentaţi” de inteligenţa artificială? // Can actors be „represented” by artificial intelligence? by Alexandru Chistruga

“…In other words, digital copies could be used in numerous movies instead of paying for background actors. The future of voice actors is also uncertain because of AI based tools that can replicate and translate the person's voice into almost every language.…”
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An Analysis of Actors in Malay Films: Small Worlds, Centralities and Genre Diversity by Nurun Najwa Bahari, Paul Expert, Fatimah Abdul Razak

“…Meanwhile, BC highlights the social importance of an actor in the network where they are the middlemen that connect actors from different genres of movies in the network, and we found that high BC actors are voice actors that may not have a high TFA, DC, or SC. …”
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Development of Therapeutic Alliance and Social Presence in a Digital Intervention for Pediatric Concussion: Qualitative Exploratory Study by Kiarah M K O'Kane, Thalia Otamendi, Noah D Silverberg, Esther Choi, Veronik Sicard, Roger Zemek, Katherine Healey, Olivier Brown, Lauren Butterfield, Andra Smith, Gary Goldfield, Rachel Kardish, Bechara Saab, Andrée-Anne Ledoux, Molly Cairncross

“…Within the app, participants listened to audio recordings of mindfulness guides (voice actors) narrating psychoeducation and mindfulness practices. …”
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