Phrase guide
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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
A failure in audio-video synchronization, so that an actor's lips move but no sound is heard.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: broadcasting, film, media, television
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noun
A movement of an actor's lips, which is to be matched as closely as possible in a dubbed version of the film.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: broadcasting, film, media, television
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noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see lip, flap.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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History
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