Panjaya.ai CEO Guy Piekarz on AI-Powered Dubbing & Global Content Expansion

1. What strategies can be implemented to maintain the original tone and emotional depth of content during AI-powered translations?

Preserving tone and emotional depth in AI-powered localization goes beyond words alone. It’s about capturing the full human performance. Traditional dubbing often ignores pauses, inflections, and gestures, making speech feel unnatural or disconnected.

At Panjaya, BodyTalk ensures that voice, lip movements, and full-body gestures stay synchronized, preserving the authenticity of the speaker’s performance. This allows translated content to retain its natural rhythm and emotional impact, ensuring that audiences connect with it just as they would with the original.

Our latest innovation, Pod Pro, extends this to podcasts and interviews, where speech modulation and contextual adaptation help maintain the flow and nuance of spoken content. By using AI-driven adjustments, creators can ensure that translated versions sound as natural and compelling as the original, without the disconnected feel of traditional dubbing.

2. What are the technical considerations when implementing AI-powered dubbing solutions into existing content management systems?

For AI-powered dubbing to be scalable and effective, it needs to work seamlessly within existing content workflows, without adding complexity for creators. Traditional localization requires expensive, time-intensive studio recordings, but Panjaya eliminates these inefficiencies with an automation-driven approach that adapts to real-world content workflows.

Our solutions handle complex real-world scenarios like multi-speaker dialogues, shifting face angles, and even occlusions (e.g., microphones or hand gestures covering the mouth). This ensures that dubbed content stays synchronized and looks natural, even in dynamic video settings.

Additionally, human-in-the-loop precision tools give publishers the ability to fine-tune translations, adjust tone, and refine performance nuances, ensuring that localized content aligns with brand voice and audience expectations. Whether integrating into a corporate video platform, media library, or podcast workflow, Panjaya makes AI-powered localization effortless, scalable, and high-quality.

3. What metrics should be used to evaluate the effectiveness of AI-powered dubbing in maintaining content integrity across languages?

At Panjaya, we measure success through engagement, audience growth, and time and cost efficiencies.

Two key indicators of engagement are completion rates and share rates. TED saw a 2X increase in completion rates and a 30% increase in shares rates when switching from subtitles to Panjaya’s AI dubbing, proving that audiences prefer a natural, immersive experience over reading text on screen, and are far more likely to share that experience with others

Beyond retention, audience growth is another major measure of success. TED Talks localized with Panjaya saw a 115% increase in international viewership, proving that high-quality localization expands reach and strengthens audience connections.

Finally, time and cost efficiencies are critical metrics. Traditional dubbing takes weeks to months to complete, but our AI-powered solutions deliver high-quality translations in minutes to hours. This means enterprises can localize content at a fraction of the time it used to take. Additionally, our approach reduces costs significantly. Our AI dubbing solutions operate at around 1% of the cost of traditional dubbing methods, allowing companies to scale their multilingual content strategy without budget constraints.

4. How can AI dubbing solutions improve the localization of audio content to engage a global audience?

Expanding global reach requires more than just translation. It demands cultural and emotional resonance. Traditional subtitling and voice-actor dubbing often fail to capture the essence of the speaker, leading to disengagement from non-native audiences.

Panjaya solves this by ensuring that translated content retains the natural rhythm and delivery of the original. With multi-speaker support, adaptive speech modulation, and contextual adaptation, our AI makes translations feel just as engaging as the source material.

For example, 60% of Spotify’s podcast listeners are non-English speakers. That means podcast publishers relying only on English are missing a massive global audience. With Pod Pro, publishers can instantly translate episodes while preserving the speaker’s unique tone and storytelling style, allowing them to connect more deeply with international listeners.

By making content feel native in every language, AI-powered dubbing removes the barriers to global engagement.

5. How can reallocating resources from manual translation efforts to AI-powered solutions impact overall operational efficiency?

Manual dubbing is time-consuming, expensive, and difficult to scale. It requires studio time, professional voice actors, and intensive post-production work—all of which add costs and delays.

AI-powered solutions eliminate these inefficiencies by automating the dubbing process while still allowing human control where needed. Instead of taking weeks or months to localize content, organizations using AI-powered dubbing can generate high-quality translations in just minutes to hours. This time reduction translates directly into cost savings. Our AI-powered dubbing operates at just 1% of traditional dubbing expenses. For organizations like TED and JFrog, this shift has dramatically increased audience engagement while significantly lowering the cost of expanding their multilingual reach.

6. How can organizations balance the efficiency of AI translations with the need for human oversight to maintain content quality?

AI-powered dubbing is incredibly efficient, but human oversight remains essential for accuracy, cultural sensitivity, and maintaining brand voice. The key is to combine automation with human refinement, ensuring speed, scalability, and authenticity all at once.

At Panjaya, we believe the future of localization is a hybrid approach. AI delivers efficiency, while human oversight ensures accuracy, nuance, and cultural alignment. AI takes care of translation, lip-syncing, and body synchronization, while creators refine tone and style using precision tools.

This balance makes Panjaya’s solutions not just fast and scalable, but indistinguishable from native-language content, ensuring that every story is told authentically, no matter the language.