AnAI takes AI dubbing and sports commentary to Web Summit

South Korean startup AnAI used Web Summit 2026 in Lisbon to present DynEx, an AI dubbing engine, alongside ASC, an AI sports-commentary platform, to international streaming, broadcast and media companies. The Nov. 10 demonstration at the Seoul Business Agency pavilion was aimed at extending both products into overseas markets.

The display followed an awkward moment the previous evening, when chief executive Young Kim’s two-minute International Pitch Night presentation at Unicorn Factory Lisboa included a Korean film clip that played without audio. Competing against 20 startups from South Korea, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal and Brazil, Kim invited the audience to hear the system at AnAI’s booth the next day. The company said the subsequent audio demonstration drew visitors and commercial consultations.

DynEx combines source-audio separation, machine translation, voice synthesis and post-production mixing in an automated production pipeline. It is designed to retain ambient and non-verbal sounds while generating dialogue tracks in other languages. AnAI’s Dyna tool is intended to let its in-house team and overseas language or production specialists collaborate through a standardized workflow.

AnAI said its patented multi-speaker separation technology can isolate overlapping voices from scenes involving as many as 12 simultaneous speakers. It said DynEx reduced production costs to one-tenth of conventional dubbing and delivered work eight times faster, figures presented alongside Kim’s assertion that conventional voice-actor dubbing is a $4 billion industry and that 76% of global viewers prefer video dubbed into their native language.

The company said it processes about 15,000 minutes of content a month at roughly $11 per minute, and has delivered more than 1,000 AI-dubbed titles, principally films and television dramas, to global OTT and FAST platforms. Its reported language coverage includes English, Spanish and Portuguese. AnAI, founded in 2024, said it reached break-even in the first half of 2026 and is developing its dubbing and sports products through government-backed R&D programmes including South Korea’s DeepTech TIPS.

ASC analyses sports video feeds and match telemetry to generate play-by-play and analyst-style commentary. AnAI has supplied commentary services for South Korea’s professional K League and said it planned to move ASC beyond highlights and replays toward real-time multilingual broadcasts. The company is also working toward commercial AI commentary across more than 150 matches.

The sports product enters a market where AI voices are already being used, according to the Hollywood Reporter, including ESPN’s personalised SportsCenter for You and NASCAR’s live Spanish-language coverage of its 2025 Mexico City race. But an IBM poll of 20,000 fans in 12 countries found reported AI use rose from 52% to 69% over a year while trust in AI-generated sports content fell from 63% to 59%.

AnAI had completed a pre-Series A round and was seeking $5 million in Series A investment. Kim said its international operations were concentrated in North and Latin America, with dubbed content supplied through OTT platforms in North America and company-operated FAST channels in Mexico and Brazil. The company framed its Web Summit appearance as a way to build relationships with OTT and FAST platforms, broadcasters, distributors and content partners while taking DynEx and ASC into international markets.