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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
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