voice-over

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voice-over

  • /ˈvɔɪsoʊvɚ/ US
  • /ˈvɔɪsəʊvə/ UK

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From voice + over.

noun voice-overs · voiceover

  1. A production technique, in which pictures are accompanied by the voice of an unseen actor or reporter.
  2. A voice-overed release, especially of foreign content.
  3. The voice audio track of such a broadcast. Fogel, working with a script by the journalist Kerry Howley, follows Winner from the age of nine to the aftermath of her plea, and organizes the movie around voice-over reminiscences by Reality (the character is played by Emilia Jones). […] With Reality [Winner]’s voice-overs doing the bulk of the d

verb voice-overs · voice-overing · voice-overed · voiceover

  1. ambitransitive To supply the voice audio track for (a broadcast).

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noun production technique

Españolvoz en off, sobrevoz, voz superpuesta, voz sobrepuesta
Françaisvoix hors champ
Ελληνικάσπικάζ spikáz
Русскийзака́дровый перево́д zakádrovyj perevód, зака́дровое озвуча́ние zakádrovoje ozvučánije, войсо́вер vojsóver

noun voice-overed release

Españoldoblaje
日本語ボイスオーバー boisuōbā
中文畫外音 /画外音 huàwàiyīn
Portuguêsdublado
Françaisvoix off
DeutschVoice-over
Ελληνικάσπικάζ spikáz
Русскийзака́дровая озву́чка zakádrovaja ozvúčka, войсо́вер vojsóver
Tiếng Việtlời thuyết minh

noun audio track

Españolpista de doblaje
Françaisvoix off
DeutschOffstimme
Ελληνικάσπικάζ spikáz

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@misc{voice_over_2026,
  title = {voice-over},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/voice-over},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}