voice-over
Americannoun
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the voice of an offscreen narrator, announcer, or the like.
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a televised sequence, as in a commercial, using such a voice.
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any offscreen voice, as that of a character in a narrative.
noun
Etymology
Origin of voice-over
First recorded in 1945–50
Example Sentences
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Thomas, who died in 2016 at 91, had a voice-over career that started at age 13 with radio ads.
Composed of original footage and the director’s conversational voice-over, “Zodiac Killer Project” is the chalk outline of his missing and presumed dead documentary.
From Los Angeles Times
Most obviously, Stern presents her conversations with Matlin — the women curled up opposite each other on a cozy sofa — entirely in American Sign Language, using captions rather than a verbal interpreter or voice-over, which allowed for more accurate translation.
From Los Angeles Times
“I had to reconstruct the voice-over to move the point of view from one character to another.”
From Los Angeles Times
These intrepid journalists couldn’t foresee the invasion that was coming, nor the brutal local crackdown on free speech in its wake, but Loktev makes those dire certainties clear from the start, solemnly intoning in voice-over, “The world you’re about to see no longer exists.”
From Los Angeles Times
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