  Dubbing is a type of audiovisual translation where dialogues are translated
and enacted so that they give the impression that the media is in the target
language. It requires a careful alignment of dubbed recordings with the lip
movements of performers in order to achieve visual coherence. In this paper, we
deal with the specific problem of prosodic phrase synchronization within the
framework of machine dubbing. Our methodology exploits the attention mechanism
output in neural machine translation to find plausible phrasing for the
translated dialogue lines and then uses them to condition their synthesis. Our
initial work in this field records comparable speech rate ratio to professional
dubbing translation, and improvement in terms of lip-syncing of long dialogue
lines.
