0714 – Lip-Sync, Phrase-Sync, Non-Sync, Bilingual and Narration Dubbing

2022.12.15 – 0714 – Lip-Sync, Phrase-Sync, Non-Sync, Bilingual and Narration Dubbing

Dubbing can also be used to describe the voice given to animated characters or computer-generated characters in video games.

• Lip-sync dubbing – is when the new voice closely matches the lip movements of the original actor/presenter on the video so the difference is barely noticed which of course increases the audience’s emotional engagement. This is obviously difficult as not only are words different, but some languages are more complicated and require more or fewer words to convey the same meaning. Such work is usually recorded by specialist lip-sync professionals. [1]
• Phrase-sync dubbing – this is similar to the above, but there is less exactness in the lip-syncs, with dialogue matched phrase-by-phrase rather than word-for-word. This is faster and cheaper to produce.
• Non-synced dubbing – this is less accurate again, and so easier and cheaper to create and used when there is less need for the viewer to believe that the on-screen presenter/actor is actually speaking the lines. 
• Bilingual delay dubbing – is often seen on news and documentaries, when the original language is heard for a second or two before that dialogue volume is reduced and the translation heard over the top.
• Voice-over narration dubbing – when a new speaker replaces original dialogue which was not delivered by an on-screen speaker, so in corporate videos, adverts and so on. 

For some of these roles as you can tell, you have to be able to act, not just be ‘a voice’, and have to convey the emotions that are required for the scene and text.

[1] Here’s a scene from the Robert de Niro movie “Analyse This” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcEB5RUHlNw and more about foreign language dubs of English-speaking movies here: https://www.alphacrc.com/insight/how-do-you-dub-a-hollywood-star/

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