Not ready for Broadway, but it’s a very thought-provoking, of not a bit impatient, presentation.
During a period of “I just can’t edit dialogue anymore,” I worked for Sonic Solutions. Andy Moore is truly scary smart. He was in Marin Country; I was in Paris, so no regular interaction. But those quarterly meetings kept me aware of the “out there” ideas behind the machine.
Having Andy fronting a product is not necessary a sign of eminent success, but it shouts that it’s worth your while to pay attention.
I think it will be a while before the visual speech editor steals our jobs. For now I use the more earth-bound but very clever ReVoice Pro from SynchroArts for those impossible ADR and alternate take moments. No speech-to-text, but very smart matching.
Hopefully I’ll be out to pasture before “everyone can be a sound editor.” I can’t compete with that.