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Netflix Says One Dubbed Language Takes 50 to 60 People. AI, It Says, Is Only a Tool

Marcus Delgado · October 17, 2026 · 5 min read

Netflix says one dubbed version of a show takes 50 to 60 people, and it dubs into 36 languages. Its localisation chief said so in Seoul on Thursday, at a roundtable built around Korean hits. Asked about AI, Netflix called it a tool for the people doing the work, not a replacement for them.

Catherine Letarte, Netflix's senior director of global content localisation, was speaking at the Global Localization Roundtable that Netflix held with the Korea Creative Content Agency, KOCCA, at the Four Seasons Hotel in Seoul on 15 October.

"It usually takes 50 to 60 people to produce a single dubbed version. If you dub into 10 languages, that means 500 people take part," she said, as reported by Digital Today.

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