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Swedish translation: berättarröst, voiceover, kommentatorröst


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English term or phrase:voiceover narration
Swedish translation:berättarröst, voiceover, kommentatorröst
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20:55 Feb 27, 2009
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Art/Literary - Cinema, Film, TV, Drama
English term or phrase: voiceover narration
Definition from The Documentary Site:
A type of sound, usually a human voice, that appears to come from nowhere to offer commentary on the events in the film frame. Voiceovers usually appear in documentaries, but also sometimes in fiction films.

Example sentence(s):
  • The opening sequence montage and its accompanying voiceover narration is almost documentary in nature as it introduces the city and its denizens. whatDVD.net
  • By combining sobriety and detachment, and unusually performed in the second person, the voiceover almost feels as if it comes from an angry archangel or another powerful supernatural entity. PopMatters
  • Voiceover narration in film and television has a long and rich history that began in the thirties, permeated Hollywood in the forties, shaped the address of television in the fifties, and counted among the favored techniques of the mostly male directors of the French New Wave in the sixties and seventies and of the New Hollywood Cinema up to the late eighties (Kozloff 33-39). bnet
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berättarröst, voiceover, kommentatorröst
Definition:
Astrid Lindgren har själv läst in flera av sina böcker. Många barn, och deras föräldrar, har där lyssnat till hennes behagliga berättarröst. Hon har dessutom varit berättarröst i bland annat filmerna om Emil i Lönneberga. [berättaren är osynlig för lussnaren]
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berättarröst, voiceover, kommentatorröst


Definition from Nationalencyclopedin:
Astrid Lindgren har själv läst in flera av sina böcker. Många barn, och deras föräldrar, har där lyssnat till hennes behagliga berättarröst. Hon har dessutom varit berättarröst i bland annat filmerna om Emil i Lönneberga. [berättaren är osynlig för lussnaren]

Example sentence(s):
  • [Berättarröst] En berättarröst kan förbättra webbaserade eller självgående presentationer. Du kan också använda en berättarröst för att arkivera ett möte, så att presentatörer eller personer som var borta under presentationen kan visa den senare och höra alla kommentarer som gjordes under presentationen. - Microsoft Office Online  
  • [voiceover] Mac OS X innehåller funktionen VoiceOver, en engelsk berättarröst som kan göra det enkelt för synskadade eller personer med lässvårigheter att använda Mac. När funktionen är aktiv läser en berättarröst upp webbsidor och textdokument som visas på datorn. Rösten berättar också hur arbetsytan ser ut och vad som händer på datorn. - Apple support  
  • [Kommentatorröst] OSYNLIG KOMMENTATORRÖST: December 2001. Argentina hamnade i decenniets djupaste sociala kris. Statistiken visade att ett spädbarn dog varje 48:e minut. Hälften av dessa fall skulle ha kunnat förhindras. Fyrtio procent av befolkningen levde under fattigdomsnivån. Tre miljoner människor blev så kallade nyfattiga. Siffran steg till åtta tusen per dag. - UNI News Flash  

Explanation:
In the business (I worked there for two years myself) the term voiceover is used - for recruting as well as for selling the product. Outside the market the term Berättarröst is used for movies and for stories and a script is used. Kommentatorröst, lastly, is mostly used to comment upon events without a script but as the example shows, it can also be used in exchange for "Berättarröst". The Swedish term "Berättarröst" should be first choice but as voiceover is used for this specific job, it should be included.
lindve
Sweden
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Native speaker of: Swedish
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