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voice-over

nounverbattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈvɔɪsəʊvə//
  • United States//ˈvɔɪsoʊvɚ//

A production technique, in which pictures are accompanied by the voice of an unseen actor or reporter.

noun

  1. 1

    A production technique, in which pictures are accompanied by the voice of an unseen actor or reporter.

  2. 2

    A voice-overed release, especially of foreign content.

  3. 3

    The voice audio track of such a broadcast.

Etymology

From voice + over.

verb

  1. 1

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

Forms

plural
voice-overs
past tense
voice-overed
past participle
voice-overed
present participle
voice-overing
third person singular
voice-overs
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).