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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And in the voice-over the narrator Will Patton says something like, “He never spoke on a telephone.”
From Los Angeles Times
“Death comes for us all,” Magneto says in the voice-over.
From Los Angeles Times
To clone their voices, No ID had them read a standardized voice-over script to capture tone, dictation and voice characteristics.
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
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