Trope: Voiceover translation (fictional)

A type of movie and TV series translation mostly used in Eastern Europe, sometimes called "Gavrilov translation". The original audio track is still audible (though quieter), and one, usually male actornote rarely, two or more actors are used to represent different characters' lines reads translated lines over the original dialogue. The actor usually doesn't put much emotion into the performance so as not to distract. The advantage of this translation is that it's much simpler and cheaper than dubbing, and still allows the audience to hear the original actors. However, things can get troublesome if multiple characters are speaking over each other. The translated lines and the original dialogue also tend to be very out of sync with each other, sometimes by several seconds. Tends to sound very jarring and annoying to viewers used to dubbing. Conversely, dubbing may sound jarring to viewers used to hearing Voiceover Translation all their life; in Poland for example, dubbing is only used for kids' movies and considered childish in almost all contexts. Almost always paired with Reading Foreign Signs Out Loud. In Russia, the tradition may originate from closed-door screenings of Western hit movies for Soviet elite, where an interpreter provided real-time translation during the movie; Andrey Gavrilov was a prominent one. These interpreters later would lend their voices to pirate videocassettes of Western films.

Examples

 * Nearly everything is dubbed into Sallyish this way.