Kenjiro Tsuda Takes TikTok to Court Over Alleged AI Voice Clone

By Voice Over News Staff. Published on: September 28, 2026.
Japanese voice actor Kenjiro Tsuda has taken TikTok to court over videos that he says used an artificial intelligence-generated imitation […]
Filed Under: AI

How a Dub Keeps the Same Character Consistent for Years

By Voice Over News Staff. Published on: September 26, 2026.
A character can remain part of a dubbed franchise far longer than the production team that originally created their localized […]
Filed Under: Dubbing, Character

Mark Hamill Takes Over as Darkwing Duck in New Disney+ Series

By Voice Over News Staff. Published on: September 24, 2026.
Mark Hamill is taking on another major animated character, but this time he is returning to a franchise he already […]
Filed Under: Casting, Animation, Cartoons, Streaming

Frank Welker Has Been the Voice of Fred Jones for Nearly Six Decades

By Voice Over News Staff. Published on: September 22, 2026.
Frank Welker has voiced hundreds of characters during a career that stretches across more than five decades, but one of […]
Filed Under: Cartoons, Television

Inside a Dubbing Session: From Beeps to the Finished Performance

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A finished dub can make a conversation sound as though the actors simply performed the scene together in another language. Inside the recording session, the process can look very different. Performers may work alone, record dialogue in short sections and repeat individual lines several times while watching a character whose movements and expressions were completed […]

When Voice Actors Become Dubbing Directors

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Voice actors and dubbing directors occupy different sides of the same recording session. One performer is concentrating on a particular character, while the director has to consider how that performance fits the script, the picture, the rest of the cast and the production as a whole. Yet dubbing has a long history of performers eventually […]

Casting a Dub: How Studios Find a New Voice for an Existing Character

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Casting an original animated production often means finding the performer who will help establish what a new character sounds like. Dubbing begins from almost the opposite position. The character is already visible on screen, another actor has already performed the role, and everything from the character’s age and personality to their physical behavior and emotional […]

Who Writes the Words in a Dub? Inside Dubbing Script Adaptation

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When a television series, movie or anime is dubbed into another language, the dialogue audiences eventually hear is rarely a word-for-word version of the original script. Translation establishes what the characters are saying, but another stage is often needed before those words can convincingly come out of the mouths of the characters already appearing on […]

Kristen DiMercurio Is the Voice You May Have Heard on Your Bluetooth Devices

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Millions of people regularly hear voice actors without realizing they are listening to one. The voice might come from a phone system, an instructional video, an appliance or the small Bluetooth speaker sitting on a kitchen counter. For Kristen DiMercurio, that anonymity produced an unusual form of recognition. After years of recording thousands of voiceover […]

What Does a Dubbing Director Actually Do?

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When audiences watch a dubbed television series or movie, the most obvious change is the voices. Actors who originally performed the characters have been replaced by performers speaking another language, with dialogue adjusted to fit scenes that were filmed or animated for an entirely different performance. Behind those actors, however, is a dubbing director responsible […]

Nolan Winking’s Cappy Voice Audition Became a Viral Meme Months Later

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An unofficial voice audition posted months ago has unexpectedly turned actor and online creator Nolan Winking into one of the latest performers to have a character voice transformed into a social media meme. In April 2026, Winking posted his interpretation of Cappy, Mario’s hat-shaped companion from the Nintendo Switch game Super Mario Odyssey. The performance […]

Tawny Platis Shows How Voice Acting Techniques Change the Way We Sound

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Voice actor Tawny Platis has built a large social media following partly by showing audiences something professional voice actors understand well: how a person says something can dramatically change how the words themselves are received. In one of her demonstrations, Platis took techniques commonly associated with voice performance and applied them to everyday conversations. Small […]

Jeff Hays Will Keep Voicing Princess Donut in the Dungeon Crawler Carl TV Series

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When Dungeon Crawler Carl makes the jump from bestselling books and audiobooks to live-action television, one of its most recognizable voices will make the transition with it. Jeff Hays, the narrator responsible for bringing Matt Dinniman’s sprawling cast of characters to life across the Dungeon Crawler Carl audiobooks, will voice Princess Donut in Peacock’s upcoming […]
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