DisDubs

A Discord Activity

Dub the scene
together

Pick a scene, hand out the parts, and perform it over voice chat while the script scrolls. When the take ends you get the clip back with your voices on it.

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How it works

Three steps and a clapperboard

  1. Cast the parts

    Claim the characters you want to voice, and one person can take several. Everybody in the voice channel sees who has what.

  2. Perform it

    The clip plays in sync on everyone's screen with the script over it, and your lines light up as they arrive. Shoot the whole scene in one pass, or let everyone work their own lines at their own pace.

  3. Fix it, then render

    Every line comes back as its own take, so a flubbed word costs one line rather than the scene. Redo what you want, slide anything that landed early or late into place against the original, then mix it down to an mp4 and watch it back together.

What happens to your voice

A Discord Activity cannot reach a microphone, because the sandbox it runs in does not allow it. So DisDubs records a different way: a bot sits in your voice channel and captures each performer on their own separate track.

That is better than microphone capture would have been. Nobody installs anything or grants a permission, it works the same on desktop, web and mobile, and because every performer is on an isolated track, one person laughing does not ruin somebody else's line.

Worth saying out loud

During a take, the bot listens to everyone for the level meter, but it records only people who are performing. Everyone else’s audio is measured and discarded immediately; it is never written to disk or used in the dub. The bot is visible in the channel while it listens, so tell everyone before you roll.

The privacy policy spells out exactly what is stored, where, and for how long.

Bring your own scenes

DisDubs reads The Choicer Voicer's dub packs, so the existing library of scenes works out of the box. Upload a pack from inside Discord and it shows up in the picker, private to your server. The OGV video is transcoded on the way in, because no browser plays Theora any more, and DubForge packs work too. The dub pack guide has the format and the limits.

You are responsible for having the right to use whatever you import; see the terms.

Playing with friends who are not in the room

This is the thing DisDubs exists for. The Choicer Voicer's own multiplayer is local: up to four players on one computer, sharing one microphone. There is no official online mode, so groups spread across several houses end up screen sharing or installing community mods. DisDubs is neither: it runs in the voice channel your friends are already in, on whatever device each of them happens to be holding.

The full comparison covers all four ways people do it, including the two that are not us.

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