VoxDub: A Bilingual Lip-Synchronized Audio-Visual Dataset for Automatic Video Dubbing

Overview & Synopsis

Automatic video dubbing (AVD) requires temporally aligned speech, transcripts, and video, yet existing corpora vary in audio quality, transcription reliability, and speaking-face visibility. We introduce VoxDub, a bilingual lip-synchronized audio-visual dataset containing 766K clips and approximately 1.58K hours of in-the-wild Chinese and English recordings, covering varied speakers, scenes, speaking styles, and linguistic content. Its curation pipeline combines speech-centered segmentation with dual-ASR transcription checking, speech quality filtering, face visibility checks, and lip-speech synchronization verification. Text-to-speech (TTS) experiments show that training on VoxDub yields lower word error rates and higher speaker similarity than training on the compared audio-visual corpora, LRS3 and CN-CVS. AVD experiments show broadly comparable speech quality and subjective synchronization. These results support the utility of VoxDub for TTS and AVD training. More details are available on the project website (https://voxdub-dataset.github.io/VoxDub/).