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Choicer Voicer Dub Mode explained

Dub Mode is the headline feature of The Choicer Voicer's 0.5 update: instead of impersonating standalone audio clips, you perform a full voiceover of a video scene — your favorite meme, movie moment or cartoon clip — and the game plays it back with your voice dubbed in. It's the mode most of the community is making content for right now, and this guide covers how it works, how to get clips into it, and the questions everyone asks after their first recording.

How Dub Mode works

A Dub Mode scene comes from a dub pack: a folder pairing a short reference video with per-line audio clips and timing metadata. When you play, the game steps through the scene line by line — you hear the original line, then record your own take. After the last line, it replays the whole scene with your performances dubbed over the video, and the judges score your delivery. You can play solo, or pass the mic with up to 4 local players, each taking different characters in the same scene.

How to add clips to Dub Mode

You don't add loose video files directly — you install dub packs, and each pack is one scene (or a set of scenes). The process is the same one-minute routine as any other pack:

1. Pick a scene from our dub pack directory — every card links to the author's official GameBanana page.
2. Download the ZIP and extract it.
3. Drop the whole folder into the game's dub folder (next to packs_voice — see the install guide for exact locations).
4. Restart the game, choose Dub Mode, and your new scene appears in the list.

If a pack installs but doesn't show up, the fix is almost always a double-nested folder or the wrong destination folder — our packs not showing up guide lists all eight causes. Note that Dub Mode needs game version 0.5 or newer.

Video format: OGV, not MP4

Dub packs use OGV (Ogg Theora) video with separate per-line audio and an INI file holding each line's timing. MP4 playback is not currently supported — it's one of the most-requested features on the game's community page, so keep an eye on the itch.io devlog. If you're converting a clip yourself for a custom pack, our dub pack maker guide walks through the whole pipeline: cutting dialogue lines, marking breakpoints, converting video and packaging the ZIP. Once your clips and OGV are ready, the free Dub Pack Maker assembles them into an installable pack right in your browser — timestamps included.

Where are your dubs saved?

This trips up almost everyone: the game does not export a finished video file. There is no MP4 of your dub sitting in a folder somewhere. Instead, the game saves your recorded audio takes in its user data folder — on Windows, typically %APPDATA%\Godot\app_userdata\The Choicer Voicer; on Linux, under ~/.local/share/godot/app_userdata/. When you replay the scene, it stitches your takes back onto the original pack's video and timing. To show a dub to friends, replay it in-game — or capture the playback with a screen recorder like OBS if you want a shareable video file.

Recording tips for better dubs

• Test your mic first. The game has a known recording bug on certain audio setups — run the browser mic test or the official free demo, and see the mic fix guide if it can't hear you.
• Match timing before style. The scoring rewards hitting each line's window; a perfect impression that starts late scores worse than a decent one in sync.
• Start with short scenes. Single-character, five-to-ten-line scenes are easier to nail than long multi-character clips.

Frequently asked questions