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Giving actors a new voice in a language they never actually spoke.
means Replacing the original spoken audio of a film or show with a new recording, often in another language, so the lips move but someone else's voice comes out.
from From 'double' — a dubbed track is literally a second (doubled) soundtrack laid over the first. The word arrived via film studios in the early 20th century, when sound cinema created the need to redo or replace audio; the same 'dub' also gives us hip-hop and reggae dubbing, where tracks are likewise layered and remixed rather than recorded fresh.
- lip sync trick
- translators rewrite lines to match mouth shapes, not meaning
- italy's obsession
- italian cinemas rarely show subtitles, dub everything instead
- same voice forever
- one actor can voice tom cruise for decades nationwide
- anime wars
- dub vs sub debates get more heated than actual plot twists